{"id":2406417,"date":"2025-02-25T11:10:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T16:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/msnbc-anchors-swarm-to-support-joy-reid-and-condemn-network\/"},"modified":"2025-02-25T11:13:03","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T16:13:03","slug":"msnbc-anchors-swarm-to-support-joy-reid-and-condemn-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/msnbc-anchors-swarm-to-support-joy-reid-and-condemn-network\/","title":{"rendered":"MSNBC anchors swarm to support Joy Reid and condemn network"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmsnbc-anchors-swarm-to-support-joy-reid-and-condemn-network%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2406417&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>MSNBC host Joy Ann Reid recently faced an\u2063 unexpected firing \u200bfrom her show, *The \u2063ReidOut*,\u2064 after five\u200b years, which drew swift \u200cbacklash from her colleagues and critics. Many MSNBC hosts, including rachel Maddow and Jen Psaki, expressed \u200dtheir deep \u2063respect for \u2062Reid and condemned the decision, labeling it &#8220;indefensible&#8221; given that it \u200bappears to \u2063disproportionately impact nonwhite \u200dhosts. Ayman Mohyeldin, \u2063Katie Phang, Jonathan capehart, \u200band Alex \u200bWagner were\u2064 also let go, raising questions about racial depiction \u2062at the network. The \u200dcriticism intensified on social media, \u2063with former \u200cMSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann referring to the\u2062 situation as a &#8220;racist purge.&#8221; \u200cAmidst this upheaval, Reid delivered a \u200dheartfelt\u2064 farewell on her last show,\u200c reflecting \u200bon \u200bher time with the network and thanking her dedicated team. The firings come as Comcast \u2062considers a spinoff of several NBCUniversal cable channels,including \u2062MSNBC,in response\u200b to declining <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cord-cutting-continues-dish-lost-273k-subscribers-in-4th-quarter\/\" title=\"Cord Cutting Continues: Dish Lost 273K Subscribers in 4th Quarter\">cable subscriptions<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">MSNBC hosts swarm to support Joy Reid and condemn network that fired her<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2018461\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>As MSNBC host <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joy-reid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Joy Ann Reid<\/a> issued her final send-off on the <em>ReidOut<\/em>, her now former colleagues blasted the <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/msnbc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">network<\/a> for her &ldquo;indefensible&rdquo; firing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Reid hosted the show for five years. Prior to that, Reid was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/l-a-sheriff-says-drug-cartels-took-over-large-tracts-of-the-desert-during-pandemic-to-grow-illegal-pot\/\" title=\"L.A. Sheriff Says Drug Cartels Took Over Large Tracts Of The Desert During Pandemic To Grow Illegal Pot\">weekend host<\/a> of&nbsp;<em>AM Joy<\/em>&nbsp;from 2016 to 2020. She was promoted to the 7 p.m. Eastern time slot in 2020. Hosts Ayman Mohyeldin, Katie Phang, Jonathan Capehart, Alex Wagner, and Jose Diaz-Balart were also ousted from their shows, drawing racial criticisms.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;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. 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,&rdquo; anchor Rachel Maddow said on her show Monday.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 640px; max-height: 360px; min-width: 320px; min-height: 180px; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; padding-top: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/share.grabien.com\/share.php?id=2814250&amp;userid=11311&amp;loginid=10455&amp;playercolor=%23000000&amp;playersize=auto&amp;code=86682dcd4689631927044ac84a914cc4\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0px;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&ldquo;I will tell you that it is also unnerving to see that on a network where we&rsquo;ve got two &mdash; count them two &mdash; nonwhite hosts in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnns-ratings-tanked-44-the-week-after-trump-left-the-white-house\/\" title=\"CNN\u2019s Ratings Tanked 44% The Week After Trump Left The White House\">prime time<\/a>, both of our nonwhite hosts in prime time are losing their shows, as is Katie Phang on the weekend. And that feels worse than bad, no matter who replaces them, that feels indefensible. And I do not defend it,&rdquo; Maddow went on.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;BREAKING: MSNBC racist purge escalates. Ayman Mohyeldin, Katie Phang and Jonathan Capehart ousted along with Joy Reid and Alex Wagner,&rdquo; former MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann wrote on X.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: MSNBC racist purge escalates. Ayman Mohyeldin, Katie Phang and Jonathan Capehart ousted along with Joy Reid and Alex Wagner <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vgGlgUFhGI\">https:\/\/t.co\/vgGlgUFhGI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KeithOlbermann\/status\/1894076386245054758?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 24, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Other hosts simply expressed their support for Reid.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I know Joy just ended her show by thanking her team, which is the most authentically Joy thing to do, I can tell you. And they are also a very incredible team, but I want to start this show tonight by thanking her. I want to thank her because she&rsquo;s done amazing work here,&rdquo; anchor Jen Psaki said on <em>Inside with Jen Psaki <\/em>Monday. &ldquo;She does tell stories no one tells. She does that fearlessly on her show, but also for the person that she is.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 640px; max-height: 360px; min-width: 320px; min-height: 180px; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; padding-top: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/share.grabien.com\/share.php?id=2814582&amp;userid=11311&amp;loginid=10455&amp;playercolor=%23000000&amp;playersize=auto&amp;code=ceaae59f1873906d9ab4026ef140cb68\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0px;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Psaki is notably taking over Wagner&rsquo;s 9 p.m. ET. The hosts of the network&rsquo;s&nbsp;<em>The Weekend<\/em>, including Symone Sanders-Townsend, Michael Steele, and Alicia Menendez, will reportedly take over Reid&rsquo;s prime-time spot after co-hosting their show that airs Saturday and Sunday mornings.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/3327403\/the-reidout-msnbc-cancels-joy-reid-show-network-shakeup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&lsquo;THE REIDOUT&rsquo; IS OUT: MSNBC CANCELS JOY REID&rsquo;S SHOW IN NETWORK SHAKEUP<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Thank you, thank you, thank you for holding us down. Almost five years. We are a toddler and we out in these streets in this world and we are not going to stop,&rdquo; Reid said during her final show on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>In November,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/business\/3240702\/joe-rogan-don-jr-elon-musk-joke-msnbc-takeover\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Comcast<\/a>&nbsp;announced it would spin off several NBCUniversal cable channels, including&nbsp;MSNBC.&nbsp;Comcast is likely considering the spinoff due to the overall decline in cable subscriptions. A projected&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3235901\/comcast-moving-forward-spinoff-msnbc-other-cable-channels\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">70 million households<\/a>&nbsp;will keep their cable by the end of this year, while in 2010, shortly before Comcast bought NBCUniversal and its networks, 105 million households had cable. Meanwhile, Fox News has about 75% of the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">cable news prime-time viewership<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2018461\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2018461\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSNBC hosts rally behind Joy Reid after her firing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2631,"featured_media":2406418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Joy-Reid-scaled-1024x683.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[50410,32137,4188,3746,3723],"class_list":["post-2406417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-controversy-2","tag-joy-reid","tag-media","tag-msnbc","tag-support"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Joy-Reid-scaled-1024x683.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2406417"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2406422,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406417\/revisions\/2406422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2406418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2406417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2406417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2406417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}