Monday was Joy Reid’s last day at MSNBC. She did a lovely farewell show, playing the crew on her show out with a sweet shoutout to every one of them. This was her last day because MSNBC management decided they’d cancel her show effective immediately, along with Alex Wagner after Rachel Maddow goes back to one day a week, and Katie Phang’s show too, slated to end in April.
Rachel Maddow had some thoughts about Joy:
An even bigger programming change is at 7 p.m., 7 p.m.nEastern, where Joy Reid’s show, The Reidout, ended tonight.
And 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.
I am 51 years old. I have been gainfully employed since I was 12. And I have had so many different kinds of jobs, you wouldn’t believe me if I told you.
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. 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 that’s what I think.
