đ´đ´Joy Reid weeps as she BREAKS SILENCE on MSNBC firing in first interview
Joy Reid wept as she broke her silence after being fired from MSBNC, expressing her âanger and rageâ over her ousting.
The ultra-liberal pundit clarified that she is ânot sorryâ despite the cancellation of The Reid Out as the struggling network looks to restructure its programming.
âIâve been through every emotion⌠anger, rage, disappointment, hurt⌠guilt. You know, [ a feeling] that I let my team lose their jobs,â Reid said during a Zoom conversation with the Win With Black Women podcast.
âBut in the end, where I really land⌠is just gratitude. Just pure gratitude and gratitude. Not just because people would take the time to get on a call like this or to take care of me. But also that my show had value.â
Reid broke down as she explained that sheâs not sorry for having gone âhard on so manyâ progressive issues like Black Lives Matter or immigrant rights on her primetime slot.
âWhether itâs talking about any of these issues and, yes, whether itâs talking about Gaza and the fact that we as the American people have a right to object, to have a right to object to little babies being bombed,â Reid went on.
âAnd and where I come down on that is Iâm not sorry. I am not sorry that I stood up for those those things because those things are of God.â
Joy Reid wept as she broke her silence after being fired from MSBNC
Network president Rebecca Kutler revealed MSNBC has not heard from Reid while addressing staffers of The Reid Out on Sunday weekend following the cancelation, Status News reported.
âWe are waiting to get a response from Joy and her team about how she would like to handle that, and we want to defer to her on that,â Kutler told staff about a final episode for The Reid Out.
MSNBC boss Rebecca Kutler summoned Reidâs staff for a meeting on Sunday that quickly grew âtense and emotionalâ
âThe hope is that we will have a final show with Joy.â
The Reid Out was canceled amid tanking ratings â a decision leaked early Sunday and confirmed by her bosses just hours later.
Katie Phang, Jonathan Capehart and Ayman Mohyeldin have also reportedly been given the boot from their current timeslots, the New York Post reported.
Fellow NBCU asset NBC News further confirmed Monday that Lester Holt was also leaving his iconic Nightly News gig.
Sundayâs meeting quickly grew âtense and emotionalâ, according to Status News, after The Reid Out was dumped because of poor ratings.
During the meeting, some of the angry employees demanded answers about why the show was cancelled and what it meant for their futures at MSNBC.
Kutler insisted Donald Trump was not a factor in the decision and the networkâs changes were made based on âdata analysis and programming strategyâ that she believes will âbest position MNSBC for the year ahead.â
She said the showâs cancellation was part of a âbroader slate of programming changes that will be laid outâ on Monday.
The showâs staffers reportedly expressed âfrustration and disbeliefâ that they learned of the showâs fate through media reports and not the networkâs leadership.
Kutler confirmed the showâs staff has been terminated but will be paid until April and receive severance.
Katie Phang, Jonathan Capehart and Ayman Mohyeldin have also been given the boot from their current timeslots, according to the New York Post â who obtained the insight from a source named as an âMSNBC insiderâ
Fellow NBCU asset NBC News further confirmed Monday that Lester Holt was also leaving his iconic Nightly News gig
Reid is among MSNBCâs highest profile faces and is known for her hard left takes on social and political issues.
The showâs 7pm ET time slot will be replaced by a panel show co-hosted by Symone Sanders Townsend, Alicia Menendez and Michael Steele.
Amid a looming landscape of languishing cable and legacy news stations, MSNBC had their lowest-rated January in history in the highly sought 25-54 demographic.
The statistic holds importance to advertisers due to the groupâs spending power and the fact that it pertains to both daytime and primetime.
During the hours of 8-11 p.m. ET, MSNBC barely managed an audience of 734,000, with CNN securing just 522,000.
This all occurred during a hectic news cycle that featured coverage of Justin Trudeauâs resignation, Trumpâs inauguration and the controversy surrounding the presidentâs parade of appointments and pardons.
Talking heads ranging from Jake Tapper to Joy Reid failed to stop the bleeding â as did a move from MSNBC that brought back Rachel Maddow to TV sets five times a week, at least for the first 100 days of the new administration.
MSNBC lagged to just 45,000 viewers during the day and just 63,000 during the peak hours of night â with the Maddow experiment seemingly failing.
In terms of percentages, though, the figures were even more alarming; MSNBC essentially lost nearly half of its 25-54 audience since this time last year, continuing a 65 percent slide seen since the election.
In primetime, the networkâs numbers are down 41 percent from 2024. When it came to programming delivered during the day, the percentage dip was the same.
Given the timing and recent events surrounding, the new Nielsen numbers appear to show that relationship continuing in spades, with Fox seemingly set to widen that gap even more.
