The Post certainly isn't gonna cut MSDNC and slack, and neither should we, because, well, they just really kinda suck.
“She’s kinda boring. She’s not a great broadcaster,” one media insider told The Post on Tuesday. Rachel Maddow, the network’s highest paid star ( $25 million per year! ), returned to the anchor chair five days a week for the first 100 days of the Trump administration before going back to hosting her show just on Mondays at the beginning of last month. Wagner was pushed out for Psaki.
Psaki’s promotion from her weekend gig was part of a sweeping lineup shakeup at MSNBC aimed at injecting new energy into prime time and broadening its appeal.
But early signs suggest the overhaul by new MSNBC president Rebecca Kutler, who took over from Rashida Jones in January, has backfired.
Kutler quickly canceled Joy Reid’s program “The ReidOut” and replaced it with “The Weeknight,” a rip-off of Fox’s ratings champ “The Five.”
The roundtable show, co-hosted by Symone Sanders-Townsend, Alicia Menendez and Michael Steele, averaged 772,000 viewers in May — a 19% drop from the 955,000 “The ReidOut” pulled in during its final month in February, which goes to show ya - You can suck at what you do, but if you work really hard, you can really suck. Juss' sayin'....
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Does Karine Jean-Pierre get a chance next time around?
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