Rachel Maddow Criticizes MSNBC Over Handling Of Show Cancellations And Says It Was A “Bad Mistake” To Let Joy Reid Go

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Rachel Maddow criticized MSNBC for its cancellation of Joy Reid‘s show, telling viewers that it was a “bad mistake” that her network bosses let her go.

Maddow, the top rated personality at MSNBC, also noted that the network was dropping the two non-white anchors in primetime, with Alex Wagner also losing her show in addition to Reid. “In all of the jobs I have had in all of the years I have been alove, there is no colleague for whom I have had more affection and more respect that Joy Reid,” Maddow told viewers. “I love everything about her.

I have learned so much 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.” She also said it was “unnerving” that “both of our non white hosts in primetime are losing their shows, as is Katie Phang on the weekend.” Maddow said that “feels worse than bad, no matter who replaces them.