{"id":2509698,"date":"2025-11-12T12:39:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T17:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/woke-msnbc-is-so-white-it-just-hired-black-actors-to-appear-diverse-while-peddling-name-change\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T12:44:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T17:44:11","slug":"woke-msnbc-is-so-white-it-just-hired-black-actors-to-appear-diverse-while-peddling-name-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/woke-msnbc-is-so-white-it-just-hired-black-actors-to-appear-diverse-while-peddling-name-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Woke MSNBC Is So White, It Just Hired Black Actors to Appear Diverse While Peddling Name Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/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%2Fwoke-msnbc-is-so-white-it-just-hired-black-actors-to-appear-diverse-while-peddling-name-change%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=2509698&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>the article discusses MSNBC&#8217;s upcoming rebranding to &#8220;MS NOW,&#8221; a move announced for November 15 after the network was spun off from NBCUniversal. Despite the name change, the network is expected to maintain its progressive, &#8220;woke&#8221; editorial stance. The rebranding includes a $20 million campaign featuring high-profile figures like Rachel Maddow and imagery intended to evoke patriotism and unity, such as Maddow reading the U.S.Constitution preamble and Maya Angelou reciting her poem &#8220;Human Family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, the campaign has drawn criticism and mockery, particularly over its attempt at showcasing diversity. The promotional video includes a significant number of black actors hired to appear alongside an overwhelmingly white on-air staff, which some view as a superficial effort to appear inclusive. Moreover, the network recently removed popular black host Joy Reid from its lineup, sparking accusations of racism from Maddow herself.<\/p>\n<p>The article portrays the rebrand as both a necesary business move due to declining ratings (down 34% compared to 2024), and an example of the network&#8217;s ongoing struggle with image and identity in a changing media landscape. Despite the new name and campaign efforts,the author suggests that MSNBC&#8217;s core nature and audience appeal will remain fundamentally the same.  <\/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\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?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<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>MSNBC is almost dead. Long live MSNBC.<\/p>\n<p>I say the first part because it&rsquo;s true in fact. On Nov. 15, the network &mdash; now spun off from parent company NBCUniversal &mdash; will rebrand itself as MS NOW, which is an acronym that stands for &ldquo;We Could Have Worked Harder On This Rebrand.&rdquo; (Or &ldquo;My Source for News, Opinion and the World,&rdquo; take your pick.)<\/p>\n<p>I say the second part because it&rsquo;s true in spirit. Sure, MSNBC won&rsquo;t have the assets of NBC News to pull from, but that didn&rsquo;t really do a very good job of pulling them into the realm of reality when they <em>did<\/em>. Reports indicate they&rsquo;ll still be the same ol&rsquo; wokeness depot they&rsquo;ve always been, with all of the cognitive dissonance that perma-wokeness requires to maintain.<\/p>\n<p>And if you don&rsquo;t believe me, consider this: As part of their $20 million <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/msnbc-officially-dead-replacement-already-mocked-sides\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rebrand campaign<\/a>, they apparently had to hire black actors to appear alongside their very white on-air staff to look diverse enough for their audience.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/11\/04\/business\/media\/msnbc-name-change-ms-now.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Times<\/a> reported on the campaign Nov. 4, calling it an &ldquo;effort to avoid confusion.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>  <script> console.log(\"A\/B Test Video Player\"); \/\/ Helper function to set a cookie function setVideoCookie(name, value, days) {     var expires=\"\";     if (days) {         var date=new Date(); 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            margin-bottom: 10px;         }         @media only screen and (max-width: 780px) {             #videoPlayer {                 min-height: 200px;             }         }         `;         document.head.appendChild(style);          \/\/ Add needed div for STN player         const stnDiv=document.createElement(\"div\");         \/\/ add data-stn-player attribute         stnDiv.setAttribute(\"data-stn-player\", \"s28Az7AY\");         document.getElementById(\"videoPlayer\").appendChild(stnDiv);           \/\/ Find the 1st paragraph before #videoPlayer and observe it         let paragraphToObserve=findPreviousParagraph(\"#videoPlayer\", 2);         observeElement(paragraphToObserve);     }); }  \/\/ Assign user to a group window.adUserGroup=assignSplitTestGroup(); let isSubbed=getCookie( 'ff_subbed' );  \/\/ Example usage if (isSubbed) {     console.log('User is subscribed, not running a player'); } else if (window.adUserGroup==='A') {     console.log('Running Aditude player for group A');     aditudePlayer(); } else if (window.adUserGroup==='B') {     console.log('Running Anyclip player for group B');     anyclipPlayer(); } else {     console.log('Running STN player for group C');     stnPlayer(); } <\/script> <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Rachel Maddow intoning the preamble to the U.S. Constitution. Maya Angelou reciting her poem &lsquo;Human Family.&rsquo; (&lsquo;We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike&rsquo;),&rdquo; Michael M. Grynbaum&rsquo;s piece about the ad blitz began. &ldquo;In a new ad campaign that debuts on Tuesday, MSNBC will strive to reclaim the idea of patriotism for its left-leaning, Trump-weary audience.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Weary&rdquo; is the appropriate word; as Grynbaum noted, the name change comes at a particularly problematic time for the network, with its audience down 34 percent vs. 2024. While generally speaking, ratings are down in the year after an election, CNN&rsquo;s audience is down only 21 percent, while Fox News&rsquo; ratings are up 18 percent.<\/p>\n<p>To promote &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/oh-no-msnbc-missed-horrible-acronym-new-logo-look-like-utterly-humiliating-un-liberal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MS NOW<\/a>,&rdquo; they&rsquo;ve rolled out the &ldquo;Same Mission. New Name&rdquo; campaign, with help from Manhattan-based marketing agency Sibling Rivalry.<\/p>\n<p>Again from the piece:<\/p>\n<p><em>The team focused on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wisconsin-parents-sue-school-district-saying-that-educators-referred-to-their-daughter-with-male-pronouns-and-name-without-their-knowledge\/\" title=\"Wisconsin Parents Sue School District Saying That Educators Referred To Their Daughter With Male Pronouns and Name Without Their Knowledge\">basic constitutional rights<\/a> to remind unsettled audiences that they are not alone in yearning for a less chaotic America.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>One 60-second spot pairs swelling string music with Ms. Maddow reading the opening of the Constitution. Footage of modern-day protesters and turn-of-the-century suffragists are interspersed with MSNBC anchors like Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski; the married morning-show couple appear just as Ms. Maddow says the words &ldquo;ensure domestic tranquillity.&rdquo; The new MS NOW logo, a kind of abstracted American flag, appears at the end.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Another ad features Ms. Angelou reciting her poem at the United Nations in 1996 over footage of a diverse Americana of citizens. The ad closes with a tagline: &ldquo;We the People.&rdquo;<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-embed\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MS NOW | We the People | Constitution Preamble\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r1bbKQCKsCc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Touching stuff, really. I&rsquo;m almost ready to stand up and put my hand over my heart, then start reciting the words every MSNBC viewer knows by heart: &ldquo;I pledge allegiance to the flag of the LGBT movement outside of the Stonewall Inn. One nation, unless we lose, unwatchable, with liberty and social justice for us.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>However, in proof that reality manages to lap my satire several times, it turns out that the promo features a large number of black actors to appear in it, including one whose r&eacute;sum&eacute; includes (if only I had the capacity to make stuff like this up) a credit from the YouTube series &ldquo;Sad-A** Black Folk.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/msnbc-hires-black-actors-to-feature-alongside-its-white-anchors-in-racial-justice-themed-ad-promoting-ms-now-name-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Free Beacon<\/a>, on Tuesday:<\/p>\n<p><em>A slick new civil rights-themed video promoting MSNBC&rsquo;s forced name change to &ldquo;MS NOW&rdquo; features paid black actors playing ordinary Americans, intercut with pensive shots of MSNBC&rsquo;s white primetime stars. The promotional spot, narrated by Rachel Maddow reading the Constitution, appears to be a ham-handed effort by MSNBC&rsquo;s new parent company, Versant, to cater to MSNBC&rsquo;s large black audience &mdash; the largest in cable news &mdash; when its primetime and morning anchor lineup is overwhelmingly white. &hellip;&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It uses archival protest footage, video of Martin Luther King Jr., and Maddow&rsquo;s patriotic narration to portray MS NOW as a beacon of racial and social justice. It also extensively uses black actors without identifying them as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/self-proclaimed-neo-nazis-march-through-nashville-spark-condemnation-by-state-leaders-speculation-online\/\" title=\"Neo-Nazis march in Nashville, face backlash from state leaders and online speculation\">paid performers<\/a>, a Washington Free Beacon review found. The actors, Alex Mason, Shekaya Sky McCarthy, and Marcel Noel, stare off into the distance as Maddow speaks of forming &ldquo;a more perfect union.&rdquo; Mason is shown by himself, while McCarthy is pictured next to a black child, and Noel plays a coffee-drinking patron at a diner. &hellip;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The spot also features a black woman in military uniform embracing her child. They appear to be actors as well, although the Free Beacon could not identify them.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s worth noting that the only two black anchors that MSNBC\/MS NOW featured in the spot were Michael Steele and Symone Sanders &mdash; co-hosts of an evening show, who only appear on-screen for a second.<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-embed\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MSNBC Hires Black Actors To Feature Alongside Its White Anchors in Racial Justice-Themed Ad \" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d1157hiAxcc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>This would be hilarious irony if it wasn&rsquo;t part of a larger conversation about the future of MSNBC\/MS NOW.<\/p>\n<p>You may recall that when this shift was first announced, one of the first moves the network made was removing the highly remunerated, highly unwatchable Joy Reid from its lineup. Reid, aside from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/beautiful-joy-reid-melts-msnbc-becomes-clear-trump-will-win\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">being a constant fount of schadenfreude<\/a> for conservatives playing &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nQC4ZfHKYh0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mystery Political Science Theater 3000<\/a>&rdquo; at home, is also black &mdash; and that fact didn&rsquo;t go unnoticed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/former-biden-mouthpiece-gets-major-msnbc-promotion-expense-rachel-maddow\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maddow<\/a>, who straight-up accused the network&rsquo;s new suzerains of racism in firing both Reid and potentially other employees:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Wow. Rachel Maddow just did her MSNBC show and ripped MSNBC management for firing Joy Reid. She even implied that they were racist for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/msnbc-drama-maddow-uses-on-air-time-to-call-joy-reids-firing-racist\/\" title=\"...NBC Drama: ... Uses On-Air Time to Call Joy ...&#039;s ... Racist\">firing multiple minority hosts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you were management, would you allow an employee to imply that you&rsquo;re a racist? &#129300;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nIYGS729kv\">pic.twitter.com\/nIYGS729kv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/robbystarbuck\/status\/1894219517611397353?\">February 25, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>So here&rsquo;s Maddow, nine months later, basically laundering her network&rsquo;s whiteness through black actors while reading the preamble to the Constitution. They even hired two black hosts to replace Reid, it&rsquo;s worth noting, and they were featured for less than a second &mdash; about as much time as the &ldquo;Sad-A** Black Folk&rdquo; thespian got.<\/p>\n<p>I guess if you pay her and Maya Angelou enough money, they&rsquo;ll pretty much ignore the obvious and drop one version of virtue-signaling for another one. 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