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MSNBC’s internal turmoil reached a fever pitch as host Rachel Maddow openly criticized the network for its decision to cancel Joy Reid’s primetime show, The ReidOut. Maddow, the network’s highest-profile host, did not hold back, suggesting that MSNBC’s leadership was guilty of racial bias for its programming shakeup, which disproportionately affected minority hosts.
“Joy is not taking a different job in the network, she is leaving the network altogether. And that is very, very, very hard to take,” Maddow said Monday night. “I have had so many different kinds of jobs… 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.”
“I love everything about her. I have learned so much from her. I have so much more to learn from her.” Maddow’s impassioned monologue continued as she criticized MSNBC for eliminating two of its nonwhite primetime hosts.
Maddow 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…
