MSNBC fires people left and right …
… but mostly left.
Because there’s no host there on the right to begin with.
Here’s the story of the firings and shufflings:
MSNBC host Jen Psaki will slide into a new primetime slot as part of a massive shakeup that includes the ouster of President Trump-bashing anchor Joy Reid, the embattled network confirmed Monday.
Psaki, the former press secretary for President Joe Biden, will take over the 9 p.m. duties Tuesdays through Fridays from current host Alex Wagner beginning in late April, the network said.
The overhaul at the left-leaning network by new president Rebecca Kutler also includes axing weekend shows hosted by Ayman Mohyeldin, Jonathan Capehart, Katie Phang and Jose Diaz-Balart.
I don’t think this will matter much, either to the leftism of the station or to its low ratings. Some people watch almost nothing but MSNBC, and they will probably continue to get their Rachel Maddow fix.
Kutler’s moves to shake up the network have angered some MSNBC insiders.
She is “canceling two hosts that made history. Alex Wagner is [the] first Asian-American primetime host and Joy Reid was the first black woman cable primetime host,” one source told The Post.
Typical highlighting of racial identities. I’m not sure what a “primetime host” on a cable news channel means, but Alex Wagner was eclipsed by this “Asian-American” news personality, although I suppose that’s ancient history:
Constance Yu-Hwa Chung Povich (née Chung; born August 20, 1946) is an American journalist who has been a news anchor and reporter for the U.S. television news networks ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and MSNBC. …
In 1993, she became the second woman to co-anchor a network newscast as part of CBS Evening News.
Not too shabby.
I never knew anything about Chung’s family, but this is worth mentioning:
The youngest of ten children, Chung was born in Washington, D.C., less than a year after her family emigrated from China, and was raised in Washington, D.C. Her father, William Ling Chung, was an intelligence officer in the Chinese Nationalist Government, and five of her siblings died during wartime.
I don’t recall Chung being especially partisan during her career. But even back then I didn’t watch much TV news and preferred to read the news instead.
Maddow was not willing to describe Katie Phung as “non-white”. If that was intentional, that’s not unusual with progressives, who will move Asians in or out of the “white” category depending on what they are trying to achieve.
Winning, seeing Leftists getting tossed out because their usefulness has ended
a sampler of mohyeldin
https://www.newsbusters.org/journalists/ayman-mohyeldin
others like phang and the felon senator’s daughter, you already know
I don’t think this will matter much, either to the leftism of the station or to its low ratings.
I mostly agree. I’m slightly more familiar with the Jen Psaki than Joy Reid, but don’t know either terribly well. My impression is that Joy was quite forward with her animosities and rants. I don’t think she was particularly well connected to the Dem power structure, so she had stick with the more limited material that power structure fed her.
Jen Psaki, on the other hand, is well connected (& more expensive to hire?) and the more devious propagandist. She won’t tell you to hate those awful people on the right, she will just studiously point out all of their hateful characteristics. Many of which will be fabricated in some quasi-plausible fashion.
Joy Reid was the first black woman cable primetime host,
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The modifiers are doing the heavy lifting here. Max Robinson was a co-anchor on ABC’s World News Tonight from 1978 to 1983. Ed Bradley was one of the hosts on 60 Minutes from 1981 to 2006. Charlayne Hunter-Gault was the principal newsreader on the MacNeill-Lehrer News Hour from 1983-1997. Bryant Gumbel was principal host on NBC’s Today from 1982 to 1997.
Now that the USAID payola has ended and given its in the toilet ratings, MSNBC is dependent upon leftist donations. But there are so many NGOs filled with ‘college graduate’ leftist ‘activists’ that pruning back the dead wood… i.e lacking ‘connections’ is being forced upon them. Ah the irony, to have WEF advisor Yuval Noah Harari’s question applied to them… “Whatever shall we do with all these useless people?”
@Geoffrey Britain: Ah the irony, to have WEF advisor Yuval Noah Harari’s question applied to them… “Whatever shall we do with all these useless people?”
Maybe they should learn to code? Oh, H1Bs and LLMs are doing that now…
Chris Matthews at one time seemed sensible, he guest hosted on Limbaughs show for instance
but then he got the ‘thrill up his leg’ about obama, and well ‘bob’s your uncle’
heck even keith olbermann was tolerable some time in the 90s, then he lost his mind, became osama’s no 1,
fan, later he became even too much of a burden for MSNBC, now like the Flying Dutchmen, of twitter, he appears mostly to troll the likes of Riley Gaines, just because
of course Ayatollah fanboi and hamas enabler mehdi hasan is another, he seems to have chosen poorly in challenging pete hegseth,
Yeah past time
https://x.com/PressSec/status/1894532798850994221
I have moderately fond memories of Connie Chung. My recollection of her is on the light and airy side, to be sure, but even so, she had some public significance.