The indispensable weekly dispatch Wednesday night from Puck’s Dylan Byers dove into the fallout from MSNBC’s axing of Joy Reid (and demotions of Jonathan Capehart, Ayman Moyheldin, and Kate Phang) with MSNBC staff reportedly uneasy with longtime host Rachel Maddow’s latest public blasting of her bosses.
While her public criticisms were supported in the past (and we’ll get to those later), Byers wrote this defense of Reid seemed out-of-touch.
“This time around, however, the response inside the network to Maddow’s chest-thumping was more skeptical…After all, her critique of the network glossed over a few important details that did not go unnoticed by her colleagues, including several other anchor,” Byers said, putting it mildly before tearing into her factual inaccuracies.
Earlier, he noted she’d “soon be ending her 100-day run as a…
