There are changes happening at MSNBC and Rachel Maddow is not happy.
One of these changes is the cancelling of Joy Reid’s “The ReidOut.”
MSNBC announced Sunday that Reid’s show was canceled and she would no longer be part of the network, per Mediaite.
During Monday’s sendoff, Reid brought on Maddow, Lawrence O’Donnell, and Nicolle Wallace to say their goodbyes.
Wallace said losing Reid is “like losing a limb.”
Later, on her own show, The Rachel Maddow Show, Maddow unloaded on the network.
“She is leaving the network altogether and that is very, very, very hard to take. I am 51 years old. I have been gainfully employed since I was 12 and I have had so many different kinds of jobs, you wouldn’t believe me if I told you. But in all of the jobs I have had in all of the years I have been alive, there is no colleague for whom I have had more affection and more respect than Joy Reid,” Maddox said.
“I love everything about her. I have learned so much from her. I have so much more to learn from her. I do not want to lose her as a colleague here at MSNBC, and personally, I think it is a bad mistake to let her walk out the door. It is not my call and I understand that. But that’s what I think,” she added.
Maddow also pointed out the racial inequity.
“I will tell you. It is also unnerving to see that on a network where we’ve got two – count them – two nonwhite hosts in primetime, both of our nonwhite hosts in primetime are losing their shows, as is Katie Phang on the weekend,” Maddow said. “And that feels worse than bad, no matter who replaces them. That feels indefensible. And I do not defend it.”
Maddow continued by stating viewers are going to be disappointed in the long run.
“But there’s just one other piece of it that you should know. From your side of the TV screen, you will mostly see changes in terms of who’s in the anchor chair, and actually everybody who’s going to be in anchor chairs from here on out are great colleagues and great at what they do,” she said. “And you are not going to be disappointed in who’s on our air and what you’re going to be seeing.”
Reid’s show will be replaced with a panel program.
It will feature three people of color — Symone Sanders Townsend, Michael Steele, and Alicia Menendez.
