Among the many, many delights that Trump47 has heaped on that giant pile of Winning™ is the rapid collapse of the Trump Derangement Syndrome MSM. A whole lot of outlets that insisted their radical, social justice-infected TDS blatherings were on “the right side of history” now find that they’re on the wrong side of voters, profit/loss statements and their billionaire owners’ willingness to lose money year after year on their lefty virtue signaling.
And no MSM outlet got further out over their skis than MSNBC, who are pink slipping members of “The Resistance” faster than P Diddy’s associates can plead the Fifth.
First came the Joy Reid firing.
MSNBC liberal mainstay Joy Reid’s show has been canceled as part of a major overhaul by the network’s new president Rebecca Kutler, according to a report.
The 7 p.m. program hosted by ardent Trump critic Reid, 56, will be replaced by a new panel show featuring co-hosts Alicia Menendez, Michael Steele, and Symone Sanders Townsend, the New York Times reported, citing insiders.
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In December, Nielsen Media Research revealed that Reid had lost almost half her viewers since the election of Donald Trump, with MSNBC seeing a whopping 53% drop in primetime viewership following the Nov. 5 result before rebounding somewhat in the four weeks following the presidential inauguration.
Her ouster is an attempt to make the network more appealing to conservatives.
The firing of Joy Reid and the cancellation of her far left MSNBC show may have been in the works for over a year in anticipation of the massive shakeup now rattling through the flailing cable news network.
During contract negotiations last year, NBCUniversal executives had only signed Ms. Reid, a liberal firebrand known for her inflammatory rhetoric about MAGA conservatives, to a one-year extension, according to a report from Status News, an independent newsletter helmed by former CNN media reporter Oliver Darcy, who wrote that such short-term deals are a stopgap measure to “buy time.” Most talent contracts in network news run three to five years.
“[H]er fate had been all but sealed long ago,” Mr. Darcy writes. “Last year, when her expiring contract was renegotiated, MSNBC brass only signed her to a one-year extension, I’m told—a clear sign that network executives were keeping their options open rather than making a long-term commitment.”
Ms. Reid has recently seen a decline in her show’s ratings, with only 973,000 total viewers in February, down 28 percent from the same month in 2024. But her decline generally tracks that of MSNBC’s other evening programs.
However, compared to her MSNBC co-stars, Ms. Reid has had a high number of controversial moments in recent years. After the presidential election in November, she declared that Black women had lost interest in “saving America” after news broke that White female voters turned out in high numbers to elect Mr. Trump. Just last month, she compared Mr. Trump’s policies and efforts to deport illegal immigrants akin to Hitler’s Germany.
Ms. Reid continues to be dogged by old blog entries from her past that resurfaced in 2019, where she made homophobic and other offensive comments. She claimed, without evidence, that she’d been “hacked” and said she was involving the FBI to catch the perpetrator. Her career was saved when MSNBC’s biggest star, Rachel Maddow, who is openly gay, weighed in with her support.
Reid is a classic example of not only Trump Derangement Syndrome, but also a graduate of Dunning Kruger University, constantly picking losing fights with figure on the right obviously far smarter than she. If MSNBC really wants to “appeal to conservatives” (a goal that’s probably not possible short of hiring someone like Ben Shapiro to run the network), then she certainly needs to be one of the first to go.
Given her falling ratings, what did Reid’s SJW fans attribute to her firing? That’s right: racism.
Reid may have been the first pink slip domino to fall, but she was hardly the last.
MSNBC host Jen Psaki will slide into a new primetime slot as part of a massive shakeup that includes the ouster of President Trump-bashing anchor Joy Reid, the embattled network confirmed Monday.
Psaki, the former press secretary for President Joe Biden, will take over the 9 p.m. duties Tuesdays through Fridays from current host Alex Wagner beginning in late April, the network said.
Making Liar in Chief Psaki the face of the network hardly seems a way to “appeal to conservatives.” Indeed, the revolving door between Democratic operatives and MSM sinecures like MSNBC are one of the many, many problems that have driven viewership away in drives.
The overhaul at the left-leaning network by new president Rebecca Kutler also includes axing weekend shows hosted by Ayman Mohyeldin, Jonathan Capehart, Katie Phang and Jose Diaz-Balart.
I’ve never heard of any of these people, but given it’s MSNBC, I’m just going to assume they needed firing.
If MSNBC really wanted to “appeal to conservatives,” then leftwing fossil Rachel Maddow would be the next to get the axe, but alas not, she’s still the face of the network. However, a bunch of her staffers are being let go.
MSNBC has reportedly informed a majority of staffers who work on Rachel Maddow’s primetime opinion show that they are being let go as part of the network’s restructuring that resulted in the cancellation of Joy Reid’s program as well as those of other hosts.
The Comcast-owned, left-leaning channel told Maddow staffers, who also worked on the other canceled shows including “Alex Wagner Tonight,” that they have the option of applying for new roles at the network or accepting a severance payout, according to the news site Guardian.
Maddow, MSNBC’s most prominent anchor and top-rated host, will retain her executive producer, Cory Gnazzo, along with several senior producers, the Guardian reported.
However, the rest of her team, along with producers from other recently canceled shows — including those hosted by Alex Wagner, Katie Phang, Jonathan Capehart, Ayman Mohyeldin and José Díaz-Balart — will need to find new jobs either within the network or at a different company, according to the report.
A network insider reached by The Post denied that the move constituted layoffs. The network insists that the shakeup was a reallocation of resources to support the network’s evolving priorities, according to the source who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Also, as long as we’re on the subject of MSNBC and Maddow, they just settled a big defamation lawsuit.
NBCUniversal is settling a $30 million defamation lawsuit brought by a doctor at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center, Mahendra Amin, after MSNBC’s biggest stars aired false accusations that he was a sinister figure known as “the uterus collector” who performed mass, unnecessary hysterectomies on migrant women.
A court filing on Friday said that NBCUniversal and Dr. Amin, had reached a settlement of his defamation lawsuit.
The terms of the deal were not immediately clear as the filing said the parties were “diligently working” on the settlement agreement, and they “expect to effectuate the settlement in the next several weeks.
Mr. Amin became the subject of what a judge ruled were “verifiably false” statements by some of MSNBC’s top talent, such as Rachel Maddow and Chris Hayes, after NBC News’ “immigration reporter,” Jacob Soboroff, interviewed in 2020 a disgruntled nurse who’d filed a whistleblower report about the ICE detention facility.
The ‘uterus collector’ report also aired on ‘All In With Chris Hayes.’ Via MSNBC
The nurse, Dawn Wooten, who worked at the facility, claimed Dr. Amin had performed “mass hysterectomies” that were often botched. She also said he was known as the “uterus collector.”
Mr. Soboroff, son of the former Los Angeles Police Department Commissioner Steve Soboroff, published an article on NBCNews.com on September 15, 2020. The report, written with two other NBC News reporters, Julia Ainsley and Daniella Silva, claimed that the “uterus collector” moniker was whispered fearfully by female detainees at the facility. In an interview with the network, Ms. Wooten claimed that a migrant asked her if the doctor was “collecting all of our uteruses.”
The discovery process in Dr. Amin’s lawsuit disclosed internal communications at NBC News, which inside 30 Rockefeller Plaza works in concert with MSNBC, despite claiming to the public that they are separate operations. Emails and texts handed over to Dr. Amin’s legal team, along with statements made in depositions, disclosed that NBC News’ editorial standards department had serious concerns about the veracity of the story — yet allowed it to be published.
Left wing liars gonna lie.
There’s long been a glut of Trump Derangement Syndrome in America’s media landscape, and it’s only logical that a network that’s in free-fall would want to change directions. But asking “who gets their news from a cable news network” in 2025 is like asking “Who gets their news from Time and Newsweek” in 2010. MSNBC is both a TDS seller in a buyer’s market where no one is buying and an aging media dinosaur with high fixed costs and little to no upsides in the the current media landscape. These much needed corrections are probably far too little, far too late to turn it into a profitable venture.
Prediction: MSNBC will be the first network to go to an All-AI Generated format by 2030…