Rachel Maddow offered a stunning rebuke to MSNBC over its decision to pull her colleague Joy Reid from its programming and how it is treating staffers who potentially face layoffs.
Maddow took a moment on Monday night to address the “changes” being announced at MSNBC, reminding her viewers that “The Rachel Maddow Show” will revert to only Mondays at the conclusion of President Trump‘s first 100 days in office, but not all of her primetime colleagues will remain a result of programming overhaul.
She specifically called the cancelation of “The ReidOut” in the 7 p.m. ET timeslot and Reid’s exit from the network “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,” Maddow said.
“I love everything about her. I have learned so much from her. I have so much more to learn from her,” she continued. “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.”
MSNBC’s future remains unclear as its parent company, NBCUniversal, is set to spin off the network and a slew of other sister channels to be its own standalone entity later this year. Meanwhile, its ratings have been in sharp decline and its programming has undergone drastic changes without juicing viewership.
Joseph A. Wulfsohn is a media reporter for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to joseph.wulfsohn@fox.com and on Twitter: @JosephWulfsohn.
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