The MSNBC Purge Continues: Most Of Maddow's Staff To Be Let Go (But She's Still Getting Her $25 Mil)

Posted • February 26, 2025: Back during the 2024 election campaign, the dead legacy media had a nuclear meltdown when Donald Trump described what might happen to the automobile market if Joe Biden won re-election. We don't need to remind you of the word he used to make his prediction, but barely one month into his second administration, we're thinking he should have used the same word about what would happen to the media if he DID win. Because there is an absolute BLOODBATH going on over at MSNBC right now. [giggles in schadenfreude] It's happening at other media outlets too but, somehow, the purge is just more delicious when it is taking place at the Peacock and its cable news arm. Here is just a partial list of the apparatchiks who no longer have a job because no one watches them or believes them anymore. Fired, retired, or stepping down: Andrea Mitchell, Norah O’Donnell, Chris Wallace, Hoda Kotb, Neil Cavuto, Alex Wagner, Joy Reid, Chuck Todd, Jim Acosta, and Lester Holt. OOF. We hope they all can learn to code.

But the cuts are going much further than on-air personalities like Joy Reid. Last night, Mediaite reported that a HUGE chunk of Rachel Maddow's behind-the-camera production team is also getting axed. Most of Maddow's Staff To Be Let Go Amid MSNBC Cuts: “The majority of the production crew working on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show will be let go, The Guardian reported on Tuesday night. For the first 100 days of the Trump administration, Rachel Maddow is hosting her show on the network five nights a week after hosting on Mondays only. It was reported this week that MSNBC is overhauling some of its programming, as Joy Reid has exited the network after hosting the last episode of The ReidOut on Monday. Alex Wagner’s Alex Wagner Tonight was also canceled, but she will remain at MSNBC. The network also shuttered its Miami operations and with it, José Díaz-Balart Reports and The Katie Phang Show. The Guardian reported that most of Maddow’s production crew members are being let go because they also worked on Wagner’s show. MSNBC said the cuts are not indicative of 'widespread layoffs.'”

That last sentence, though. LOL. Uh-huh. We're going to go ahead and file that one under 'famous last words.' But don't worry, everyone. The 'useful idiots' on the production team are gone, but Maddow herself won't have to make any changes to her lavish lifestyle. And yet she'll continue to make her $30 million a year for hosting one show a week. Maddow is a talentless, entitled shrew completely undeserving of her good fortune. Maddow actually took a pay cut from $30 million to $25 million when she reduced her show from four days a week to one day a week (though she is temporarily hosting her show for the full week during Trump's first 100 days). That's right, $25 million a year for one show per week. How will she ever manage the sacrifice? (…)

• More at: Twitchy - The MSNBC Purge Continues: Most of Maddow's Staff to Be Let Go (But She's Still Getting Her $25 Mil)
https://twitchy.com/grateful-calvin/2025/02/26/the-msnbc-purge-continues-most-of-maddows-staff-to-be-let-go-but-shes-still-getting-her-25-mil-n2408990
Townhall: Maddow Blasted MSNBC for Canceling Joy Reid's Show. Then This Happened.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2025/02/26/rachel-maddows-staff-to-be-let-go-n2652866
Mediaite: Most of Maddow’s Staff To Be Axed As MSNBC Ravaged By Job Cuts: Report
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/most-of-maddows-staff-to-be-let-go-amid-msnbc-cuts-report/
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