MSNBC pivots to the hard left by firing Joy Reid
Joy Reid was apparently just too moderate for what media reporters are calling a “hard-left” shift at MSNBC, terminating both Reid and Rachel Maddow fill-in host Alex Wagner (who is married to Obama’s former White House chef), and by some reports, promoting former Biden White House press secretary Jen Psaki into a starring role. These moves within a national media shake-up, with Jim Acosta quitting CNN for Substack, joining former Washington Post communist Jennifer Rubin on the same platform, and now reports that Lester Holt is stepping down at NBC News. Holt famously was given that promotion after the network axed Brian Williams for a series of wartime exaggerations and fictitious personal stories.