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hey ladies and gentlemen this is Carmine
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Sabia for explain America and yeah the
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firings at MSNBC have finally hit Rachel
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mattow herself before we get started
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out Rachel mattow is not taking the news
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of the firings of her
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friends Joy Reed Alex Wagner Katie Fang
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not taking them very well at all in fact
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more hosts were fired today we're just
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getting worried about it now so we'll
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probably have news on it for you
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tomorrow there's a purge going on in
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MSNBC and Rachel mat's got to be scared
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she's got to be scared because her her
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show is not having the ratings it once
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had either
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but what she did during this
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clip was even worse she accused the
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network that's paying her tens of
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millions of dollars every year of firing
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these people because they're
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racist and she didn't overtly say it but
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the insinuation is there I want you to
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watch this clip and let me know what you
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think in the
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comments uh I'm going to take a little
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point of personal privilege here just
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for a moment if it is okay with you um
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you may have already heard about changes
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that have been announced at MSN BC over
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the last couple of days the new
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president of our Network made it
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official today some of our shows are
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moving to different time slots or
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expanding or going away
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altogether in prime time just so you
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know I am here five days a week for the
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first 100 days of Trump's presidency as
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planned and as planned I will go back to
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just Mondays after that that is not
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changing what is changing is that the
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show Alex Wagner tonight is not coming
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back at 9:00 after after the first 100
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days instead Alex will be a senior
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political analyst for MSNBC and Jen saki
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will start hosting the 9:00 p.m hour all
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the other nights except for Mondays so
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that's a big change an even bigger Pro
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programming change is at 7 pm uh 7 p.m.
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Eastern where Joy reads show the readout
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ended tonight and joy is not taking a
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different job in the network she is
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leaving the network altogether and that
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is very very very hard to take
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I am 51 years old I have been gainfully
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employed since I was
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12 and I have had so many different
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kinds of jobs you wouldn't believe me if
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I told you but in all of the jobs I have
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had in all of the years I have been
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alive there is no colleague for whom I
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have had more affection and more respect
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than Joy Reed I love everything about
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her I have learned so much from her I
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have so much more to learn from her I do
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not want to lose her as a colleague here
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at MSNBC and personally I think it is a
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bad mistake to let her walk out the door
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it is not my call and I understand that
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but that's what I think I will tell you
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it is also unnerving to see that on a
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network where we've got two count of Two
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non-white Hosts in Prime Time both of
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our non-white hosts in prime time are
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losing their shows as is Katie Fang on
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the
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weekend and that feels worse than bad no
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matter who replaces them that feels
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indefensible and I do not defend
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it but there's just one other piece of
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it that you should know um from your
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side of the TV screen you will you will
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mostly see changes in terms of who's in
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the anchor chair and actually
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everybody's who's going to be in Anchor
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chairs from here on out are great
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colleagues and great at what they do and
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you are not going to be disappointed and
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who's on our air and what you're going
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to be
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seeing but one thing you cannot
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necessarily see is that the people who
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get our shows on the air they're really
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being put through the ringer um dozens
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of producers and staffers including some
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who are among the most experienced and
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most talented and most specialist
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producers in the building um are facing
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being laid off they're being invited to
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reapply for new
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jobs um that has never happened at this
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scale in this way before when it comes
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to programming changes presumably
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because it's not the right way to treat
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people and it's inefficient and it's
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unnecessary and it kind of of drops the
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bottom out of whether or not people feel
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like this is a good place to work and so
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we don't generally do things that
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way maybe all of our folks including
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most of the people who are getting this
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very show on the air right now maybe
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they will all get new jobs here and I
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hope they do but in the meantime being
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put in this kind of
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limbo the anxiety and the discom
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discombobulation is off the charts at a
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time when this job already is extra
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stressful and difficult it is not news
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for me to tell you that the press and
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freedom of the press are under attack in
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a way that is
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really um it's a big deal for our
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country it's very visceral for us here I
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know that the business of the press is
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not an easy thing and I know that no job
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is
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forever but um I think I think I'm safe
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in saying for for all of us anchors who
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you know through the TV please know that
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what pains us the most is not what
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happens to us it is what happens to our
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co-workers on whom we Depend and who you
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don't necessarily know but we respect
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and love them and depend on them and did
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I mention we respect
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them this is a difficult time in the
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news business but it does not need to be
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this
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difficult we welcome new voices to this
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place and and some familiar voices to
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new hours it's going to be great
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honestly and we want to grow and succeed
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and reach more people than ever and be
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resilient and stay here forever
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I also believe and I bet you believe
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that the way to get there is by treating
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people well finding good
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people good
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colleagues doing good work with them and
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then having their
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back that we could do a lot better on a
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lot
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better I'll be right back
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