General Discussion

Rachel and Lawrence can easily find other venues, as Joy Reid was forced to do.

MSNBC announced on Monday that the progressive host Joy Reid was being fired from her weeknight show, with Alex Wagner also losing her prime-time nightly broadcast. Katie Phang and Jonathan Capehart also lost their solo weekend shows, along with Ayman Mohyeldin, who has been a fierce critic of Israel’s bombing of Gaza. A “bloodbath of non-white anchors”, as the Daily Beast termed it, as the move was widely criticized, including on MSNBC.
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The moves came two weeks after the Federal Communications Commission, led by the Donald Trump appointee and Project 2025 co-author Brendan Carr, launched an investigation into Comcast, MSNBC’s parent company over its diversity, equity and inclusion policies, part of a broader policy which has seen Trump order an end to all DEI programs in federal government and also target the programs in schools and universities.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/mar/02/msnbc-staff-changes

Elie Mystal: “I owe the television part of my career to Joy Reid, as do so many other Black voices y’all never would have heard of if not for her. And that’s why she’s gone. They can treat black folks as interchangeable, but everybody Black knows that Joy was indispensable.”

“Joy Reid represents another loss of amplifying Black and brown voices who will report news on stories that oftentimes go under the radar or under reported by mainstream journalists,” said Emmitt Riley, a professor of politics and African and African American studies at the University of the South and the president of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists.

“When we think about what diversity truly means, it means that we bring a wide variety of perspectives to the table. And certainly a person’s life experiences with discrimination, their life experiences in terms of where they occupy certain positions of power or lack thereof, informs what stories they decide to amplify. And so we saw Joy covering a number of different stories that I think will go under the radar now.”