Whoa, it’s gotta be an interesting time to be working at MSNBC, the far-left extremist cable news channel that for years has devoted itself to race-baiting, Trump-hating, and gaslighting the American people. As reported, the struggling propaganda outlet finally jettisoned toxic host Joy Reid, who on our her way out the door bawled on national TV and called anyone who disagreed with her radical views a “fascist.”
Along came Rachel Maddow, who promptly bashed her own network, essentially calling her bosses racist and saying it was a “bad mistake” to give Joyless her walking papers. She seemed to not realize that the only reason anyone knows her name is because of MSNBC, but there she was, biting the hand that feeds her in front of her (shrinking) national audience.
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Now it’s Maddow’s turn to find out that the mood has changed, and as the purge at the struggling network continues, much of her staff was sent to the exits:
MSNBC has told the majority of the employees who produce Rachel Maddow and Joy Reid’s prime-time evening news shows they are being let go as part of the network’s programming overhaul with the option to apply for new roles, according to two people directly familiar with the matter.
Maddow, the biggest star and highest-rated anchor at MSNBC, will get to keep her executive producer, Cory Gnazzo, and several other senior producers, the people said.
But the rest of Maddow’s team – along with producers who worked on the other cancelled shows, hosted by Katie Phang, Jonathan Capehart, Ayman Mohyeldin and José Díaz-Balart – have been given the option to claim severance or reapply for new roles at the network, the people said.
President Trump, not known for subtlety, let it be known exactly how he felt about Maddow and her divisive ilk:
MSNBC tried to downplay the moves, but it’s pretty clear that they realize they’ve worn out their welcome and that the American people have largely tuned them out:
Maddow is currently hosting five nights a week for the first 100 days of the Trump administration, but when she returns to Mondays only and the programming shake-up takes effect on 21 April, Jen Psaki, the former Biden White House press secretary, will take over the Tuesday-to-Friday slot.
An MSNBC source said that the changes were not “widespread layoffs” but rather the reallocation of producers to support new programs and priorities. They said the new roles were being posted internally first and would not be posted externally until affected employees had had a chance to reapply.
The manner of the personnel changes – having employees reapply for roles in time slots they already produce – are unprecedented at MSNBC at this scale. Typically, MSNBC has taken great pains to redistribute staffers without laying them off after shows have been cancelled.
But it all comes at a turbulent time for the cable news industry in general. MSNBC is being spun off by NBCUniversal and is trying to find cost savings, similar to how CNN laid off 200 employees last month as its new chief executive, Mark Thompson, attempts to pivot to a digital strategy.
MSNBC is an embarrassment, and so far none of the moves they’ve made seem likely to boost their prospects. Promoting the disingenuous former Biden press secretary Jen Psaki just shows that, despite their efforts, they’re just not getting it.
The question now becomes, how long will they continue to pay Maddow to only work occasionally for her dwindling audience?
Major shakeups are occurring across mainstream media networks as radical, left-wing talking heads are being shown the door. The leftist media are losing the ideological battle for America in real-time.
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