It is a “bad mistake” to let Joy Reid leave the network

Rachel Maddow Speaks out hours after it was announced that Joy Reid would leave MSNBC.

On Monday 24 February, Rachel Maddow Show host, 51, began his show by expressing it Reid’s departure from the network earlier the same day was “very, very, very difficult to take.”

She said that throughout her career, “there is no colleague for whom I have had more affection and more respect than Joy Reid.”

“I love everything about her. I’ve learned so much from her. I have so much more to learn from her. I don’t want to lose her as a colleague here at MSNBC, ”Maddow said.

“And personally, I think it’s a bad mistake to let her go out the door. It’s not my conversation, and I understand it,” she added as she looked around the room. “But that’s what I think.”

Because Alex Wagner also lost their show in the middle of Ongoing shivers In television news, Maddow said it is “unnecessary” that “both of our non-white hosts in Prime Time lose their shows, as did Katie Phang this weekend.”

While Phang will lose her show, she will stay with the network as MSNBC’s legal correspondent. Wagner is also left on the network as a senior political analyst.

Rotating anchoring is expected to fill Reidout’s 19:00 the ET track in the coming weeks. Symone Sanders Townsend, Michael Steele and Alicia Menendez, current hosts for WeekendWill now move to weekdays at. This will make Menendez the first Latina in MSNBC Primetime.

Maddow said “feels worse than bad, regardless of who replaces them. It feels incredible, and I don’t defend it.”

Although Maddow told viewers that they “will not be disappointed”, by WHO to fill the anchor chairs over the network, she said that “the people who get our shows in the air” are the ones who “really put through rings,” in the middle of more possible layoffs.

Maddow said that while her colleagues are encouraged to apply for new jobs, it has never happened on this scale in this way before when it comes to programming changes, probably because it is not the right way to treat people, and it is ineffective and it is unnecessary. ”

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She said that “this type of limbo, the anxiety and discompobulation are outside the lists, at a time when this job is already extra stressful and difficult.”

Reid’s departure occurred hours after NBC Night news anchor Lester Holt announced that he would be Pubt the show this summer after more than ten years.