I've posted in the past on MSNBC where somedays they've talked the good talk, but when you looked at the primetime, and the faces they were promoting, it just didn't pass muster.
And now--in one sweeping cut--they just knocked off THREE Women of Color including Alex Wagner, who I knew there had to be something up and I wondered if she'd be coming back, Katie Phang, who I was loving so much and LOVED seeing this awesome Asian American Woman on TV, and Joy Reid--one of the most distinct voices and best voices on MSNBC.
For all their talk about what they stand for--MSNBC, while they are replacing Joy Reid's show with 3 anchors of color, it's still suspect--because they're still dropping TWO ASIAN AMERICAN WOMEN.
At the same time, it sounds like no one was given any real information on their shows being cancelled beforehand (although I wonder if Wagner had some inkling)--and that makes a difference. If you worked at a company for X number of years doing great things--don't you think you should at least be given some respect in the send off vs "Here's a box for your stuff" and getting it via an email from x of x of x (and not I don't know the actual pieces of that, but we can guess because it's already been stated it was A SURPRISE).
Checking out different numbers across the board it sounds like everyone was not doing great from a numbers standpoint, but that it was getting better, so while mostly--all things were equal--they still decided to go with Whiteness.
