Joy Reid’s Sudden MSNBC Exit — and How She Let Queer Viewers Down
variety.comDaniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic The Joy Reid era at MSNBC is over. The liberal commentator, who will be leaving her 7 p.m.
weeknight show amidst a larger shakeup, was perhaps the network’s toughest critic of Donald Trump, delivering blistering critiques of both the president and his voters.
Reid seemed to welcome controversy in a way that made her built for a contentious moment; after last year’s election, for instance, she told Latino Republican voters that they “own everything” that will happen to their families under Trump.
The author of three books about politics, Reid’s personal story as the child of immigrants raised in Brooklyn was inspiring, and her status as a relatively rare Black woman in cable news made her a magnet both for fandom and vitriol. (Megyn Kelly, for instance, often delivered vituperative criticism of Reid’s work.) The MSNBC reorganization will also affect anchor Alex Wagner, downshifting to contributor.
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