MSNBC Fires "The Majority" of Rachel Maddow's Staffers

Night of the Long Faces.

Note that she could easily pull a Jay Leno. When NBC wanted Leno's show to reduce costs, Leno famously took a $10 million per year pay cut so that he could pay his staff with no job losses or pay cuts.

The Pretend Socialist Rachel Maddow will not be taking even a $1 million pay cut to keep any of the people she knows and works with employed.

MSNBC has reportedly informed a majority of staffers who work on Rachel Maddow's primetime opinion show that they are being let go as part of the network's restructuring that resulted in the cancellation of Joy Reid's program as well as those of other hosts.

The Comcast-owned, left-leaning channel told Maddow staffers, who also worked on the other canceled shows including "Alex Wagner Tonight," that they have the option of applying for new roles at the network or accepting a severance payout, according to the news site Guardian.

Maddow, MSNBC's most prominent anchor and top-rated host, will retain her executive producer, Cory Gnazzo, along with several senior producers, the Guardian reported.

However, the rest of her team, along with producers from other recently canceled shows -- including those hosted by Alex Wagner, Katie Phang, Jonathan Capehart, Ayman Mohyeldin and José Díaz-Balart -- will need to find new jobs either within the network or at a different company, according to the report.

A network insider reached by The Post denied that the move constituted layoffs. The network insists that the shakeup was a reallocation of resources to support the network's evolving priorities, according to the source who spoke on condition of anonymity.

LOL, Corporate Media. They're not layoffs, they're just a "reallocation of resources to support the network's evolving priorities."

MSNBC claims that the non-laid-off employees will have the opportunity to apply for other jobs at MSNBC, but MSNBC lost half of its ratings and is being sold off because it's a dying brand. What "other" jobs will these non-laid-off employees be applying for, exactly?

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The restructuring coincides with broader financial pressures at MSNBC, which is being spun off from parent company NBCUniversal.

The network is searching for cost-saving measures, mirroring CNN's recent move to lay off 200 employees under its new chief executive, Mark Thompson, who has been aggressively pushing for a stronger digital strategy.

Sources in Washington, DC, have privately voiced concerns that the new roles MSNBC is posting may predominantly be based in New York, where union-negotiated hourly pay rates are reportedly lower.

Employees worry that accepting new positions may require relocation, further complicating their employment status.

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She added that in six months' time, MSNBC would have more employees than it does currently, an assertion intended to project long-term stability despite the current upheaval.

Magic 8-Ball Check: Doubtful.

Rachel Maddow's head is so long the bitch's brain is vertical.

Bitch's hat size is #2 Pencil.

posted by Ace at 03:45 PM

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