MSNBC is a network in turmoil.
It may go up for sale and get shut down entirely.
And now Jen Psaki got a promotion after MSNBC fired this controversial star.
Joy Reid’s show canceled – Jen Psaki promoted to weeknights in primetime
MSNBC’s season of upheaval continued.
Parent company Comcast spun MSNBC – along with its other cable channels like USA Network and CNBC – off into a separate company from NBC Universal.
While MSNBC faces an uncertain future, its present is also in shambles.
Variety broke the story that Network President Rebecca Kutler was going to shake up MSNBC’s primetime lineup by firing race-baiting host Joy Reid and replacing her show with a panel program featuring former Biden aide Symone Sanders-Townsend, Alicia Menendez – the daughter of convicted felon Congressman Bob Menendez – and Never-Trump RINO Michael Steele.
Jen Psaki would also get a promotion from weekends to weeknights.
“Rebecca Kutler, who was named president of MSNBC earlier in February, is considering expanding the on-screen presence of Jen Psaki, who currently anchors hours on Sunday afternoons and Monday evenings, as well as the trio of personalities who lead ‘The Weekend,’ the roundtable show that airs Saturday and Sunday mornings and is led by Symone Sanders-Townsend, Alicia Menendez and Michael Steele, according to two people familiar with the discussions,” Variety reported.
The following day, MSNBC confirmed the moves by canceling Reid’s show and moving Jen Psaki to host Rachel Maddow’s show four nights a week once Maddow goes back to just Mondays at the conclusion of President Trump’s first 100 days.
Reid stayed true to form with a tearful racist rant falsely claiming that 1619 – the year the first slaves stepped foot in the new world – was the actual founding of America.
“My show had value . . . whether it was the Black Lives Matter issues . . . We need to understand 1619 as the real founding of this country . . . Gaza . . . the American people have a right to object to little babies being bombed . . . those things are of God . . . I’m just proud of my show,” Reid whined upon learning her show was canceled.
Former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann attacked the network for conducting a racist purge as it canceled shows for multiple minority hosts.
“BREAKING: MSNBC racist purge escalates. Ayman Mohyeldin, Katie Phang, and Jonathan Capehart ousted along with Joy Reid and Alex Wagner,” Olbermann wrote on X.
Even Rachel Maddow called out MSNBC as racist on her show the night Reid got canned, telling viewers it disturbed her that the network axed programs hosted by the only minorities in the channel’s primetime lineup.
“I will tell you it is also unnerving to see that on a network where we’ve got two—count them, two— non-white hosts in primetime, both of our non-white 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 lamented.
