It is a ‘Dangerous Mistake’ to Let Pleasure Reid Depart Community

Rachel Maddow is talking out hours after it was introduced that Pleasure Reid can be exiting MSNBC.

On Monday, Feb. 24, The Rachel Maddow Present host, 51, started her present by expressing that Reid’s departure from the community earlier the identical day was “very, very, very onerous to take.”

She mentioned that all through her profession, “There isn’t any colleague for whom I’ve had extra affection and extra respect than Pleasure Reid.”

“I like all the pieces about her. I’ve discovered a lot from her. I’ve a lot extra to study from her. I don’t need to lose her as a colleague right here at MSNBC,” mentioned Maddow.

“And, personally, I believe it’s a dangerous mistake to let her stroll out the door. It’s not my name, and I perceive that,” she added whereas wanting across the room. “However that’s what I believe.”

As a result of Alex Wagner additionally misplaced her present amid the ongoing shakeups in tv information, Maddow mentioned it’s “unnerving” that “each of our non-white hosts in prime time are shedding their reveals, as is Katie Phang on the weekend.”

Whereas Phang will lose her present, she’s going to stick with the community as MSNBC’s authorized correspondent. Wagner can also be remaining on the community as a senior political analyst.

Rotating anchors are anticipated to fill The ReidOut’s 7 p.m. ET slot within the coming weeks. Symone Sanders Townsend, Michael Steele, and Alicia Menendez, present hosts of The Weekend, will now transfer to weekdays at 7 p.m. to host a brand new ensemble information hour. This may make Menendez the primary Latina in MSNBC primetime. 

Maddow mentioned that “feels worse than dangerous, irrespective of who replaces them. That feels indefensible, and I don’t defend it.”

Though Maddow informed viewers that they’re “not going to be dissatisfied,” by who fills the anchor chairs throughout the community, she mentioned that “the individuals who get our reveals on the air,” are those who’re “actually being put by way of the ringer,” amid extra attainable layoffs.

Maddow mentioned that whereas her colleagues are being invited to use for brand new jobs, it “has by no means occurred at this scale on this means earlier than with regards to programming adjustments, presumably as a result of it’s not the proper approach to deal with folks, and it’s inefficient and it’s pointless.”

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She mentioned that “this type of limbo, the anxiousness and the discombobulation is off the charts, at a time when this job already is additional traumatic and tough.”

Reid’s departure occurred hours after NBC Nightly Information anchor Lester Holt introduced he can be exiting the present this summer season after greater than 10 years.