Update: Joy is subbing for practically everyone and in an interview she stated that she really enjoys seeing how all the shows work. She is appearing on Meet the Press occasionally, and recently went to the Virgin Islands to report on the hurricane disaster there. She continues to report on the Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
GO JOY!!!
By InsightAnalytical-GRL
OK, maybe I’m just being hypersensitive about how MSNBC is shoving out a lot of people who are deemed as being “too far left” for the taste of Andrew Lack. (very interesting Lack bio at Comcast.com corporate: Andrew Lack.) We are in the dark about the fate of Lawrence O’Donnell but the purge started a long while back when Melissa Harris Perry blew the whistle on the network. God forbid that a show is devoted to a serious round table dealing with current issues involving the issue of Black America. Rev. Al’s Politics Nation has been reduced to early A.M. on Sunday. And the list goes on
Joy Reid had her own show during the afternoons that was axed around the time that Alex Wagner’s NOW , the Cycle, Ronan Farrow Daily and The Ed Show were cancelled in February 2015. The Reid Report was struggling with low ratings as was the whole lineup.
Reid stayed on with the network, filling in and covering the 2016 campaign and became more visible and a real stalwart. She was rewarded with her weekend AM Joy program which is a top destination for thinking people. (Of course, she COULD have been given the slot have Greta Van Susteren was given but…) Her show is delivering great ratings and Joy has been writing books and as well as essays at sites like the Daily Beast…so, she’s blossoming as a media star. See her outdated MSNBC bio here: Joy Reid outdated biography MSNBC.
So, why is MSNBC shoving Joy’s show around as the Trump scandals heat up? Joy has been a leader in questioning the whole lot of GOP lackeys, and has been ahead of the pack in questioning the role of VP Mike Pence and his knowledge of Gen. Mike Flynn’s lies. She has been steadily calling out the entire bunch over at the Daily Beast, Her latest scathing salvo dated May 20, 2017 is entitled Donald Trump Knows Just How Bad the Russia Investigation Can Get
My favorite quotation from this piece is classic Joy:
“(We are asked to believe Mike Pence, the head of the transition team, heard this confession and the warnings about Flynn from the then-acting attorney general with his index fingers stuck firmly in his little lamb ears.)”
BUT…as Joy Reid’s audience grows, could this be a bit too much for MSNBC?
Today, Joy’s show is being pushed back 2 hours because there is a Premier League soccer match that MUST be shown in her regular Sunday time slot. ?????
Now, checking the NBCSN schedule, I can see that, yes, other games are being dropped onto other NBC outlets. CNBC, Esquire, USA, Bravo, SyFy, E!, Oxygen, Telemundo and NBC Universo are ALL showing games at the same time, 10 AM ET. NBCSport.com/tv-lisings
Now, I’m a huge soccer fan…was one before it became more popular. I had season tickets for the Cosmos at the midfield line just behind the players’ family section at the old Giants Stadium, where I saw all the greats. Back in the late 70’s/early 80’s I was writing letters and calling Don Imus to lobby for coverage because the media was blacking out most coverage. For example, while 34,000 of us were watching a game in the rain, the only news was that baseball had been rained out. I can say that my letter to the New York Times was published and Imus reported the score of that game! So, my sports activism worked!
So, now, as someone more devoted to political activism, I have to call into question what’s going on at MSNBC…and today, specifically, the decision to push Joy Reid back 2 hours so a Hull-Tottenham match is aired instead of the best discussion of current politics.
Really, MSNBC????
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I’ll be revisiting the Lack influence at some point since his bio discusses his former life at Bloomberg…..
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Even NBC was showing a soccer game and wiped out their Sunday Morning Meet the Press News Show to do it.
Yes, even MTP…but MTP is never going to be cancelled….Joy Reid?
She’s at MSNBC which is definitely a dangerous place to be these days.
Her visit with Lawrence O’Donnell was really gutsy. He was unaware that her show had been pushed back for a soccer game as he found out after he thanked her for extra sleep time!
The actual discussion showed exactly how gutsy Joy is…she introduced him by describing him as host of his “HIT SHOW”…
she is proving how loyal she is to Lawrence and that was a real dig a management, for sure.
The info Lawrence had about how Dems shouldn’t be worried about having a “leader” at this point was priceless…why be a target, when the GOP is getting all the bad press now? He mentioned Warren, of course, as the main target of the GOP, but his reference to Kamala Harris, the new Senator from CA really piqued my interest
Losing Lawrence would be a real screw job…and losing Joy would be just as devastating!