The brand new president of MSNBC, Rebecca Kutler, held an unplanned digital assembly with Pleasure Reid’s employees after the present’s cancellation was leaked to the media.
An audio recording of the assembly concerning the leak was subsequently leaked to the media.
The recording was obtained by former CNN reporter Oliver Darcy, who wrote, “Staffers expressed frustration and disbelief, outraged that they’d realized of their present’s destiny from studies within the press moderately than management. Others demanded solutions concerning the reasoning behind the cancellation of “The Reidout” and what it meant for his or her futures on the community.”
Based on the report, Kutler confirmed that “your complete employees had been laid off” however would obtain severance pay by means of April. She additionally inspired them to use for different jobs inside the firm.
Darcy studies:
Regardless of MSNBC’s assurances that new roles shall be obtainable, staffers exited the assembly shaken. The shock of studying about their present’s destiny, married with uncertainty about what comes subsequent, spurred important frustration with MSNBC brass—which got here by means of throughout the Sunday assembly.
Whereas Kutler pointed to the greater than 100 new jobs being posted this week as an indication of hope for the staffers, for individuals who have labored on “The ReidOut,” the assembly drove residence a tough actuality: Their present is over, and their future on the progressive community will not be sure.
Although Kutler was apologetic about how they realized about their misplaced jobs, employees remained outraged and mentioned it was a “horrible, horrible technique to find out about our destiny.”
Darcy mentioned Kutler additionally insisted that “Donald Trump was not an element” within the present’s termination.
Kutler was requested if Trump’s place on the community factored in to the cancellation and he or she replied, “No, it didn’t.”
