More than four months after MSNBC confirmed that Ronan Farrow would be getting his own show on the cable news network, he finally has a debut date. Farrow’s yet unnamed show will premiere on February 24 at 1 Pm Et, MSNBC announced this morning. Also joining the daytime lineup is longtime contributor and Grio.com editor Joy Reid. The recent fill-in host’s own show will also start February 24 at 2 Pm Et following Farrow. “Ronan and Joy are two of the most thoughtful and impressive journalists out there and I’m excited for what they will bring to the afternoon,” said MSNBC president Phil Griffin in a statement today. The additions mean some current MSNBC shows will be moved around: Andrea Mitchell Reports will shift to noon, and NewsNation With Tamron Hall will move to 11 Am Et. A frequent presence on the cabler in recent months, Farrow, the son of Mia Farrow,...
- 1/27/2014
- by DOMINIC PATTEN
- Deadline TV
MSNBC announced on Monday that Ronan Farrow and Joy Reid were getting their very own daytime news shows. Farrow, who joined the network in October, is taking the 1pm Est timeslot — tentatively titled “The Ronan Show.” Also Read: Ronan Farrow Makes His Post-Hire MSNBC Debut; Talks Sinatra Paternity Revelation (Video) Reid, who is the managing editor of TheGrio.com and performed duties as a steady fill-in host for former MSNBC personality Martin Bashir will be taking over at 2pm Est. “Ronan and Joy are two of the most thoughtful and impressive journalists out there and I’m excited for what they will bring to.
- 1/27/2014
- by Wrap Staff
- The Wrap
When Alex Wagner moves to 4 Pm Et on MSNBC, replacing potty-mouthed Martin Bashir, a rotating lineup of on-air talent will replace Wagner at noon. They include Joy Reid, who has been filling in at 4 since Bashir’s exit last month, as well as Ari Melber, who’d previously replaced Steve Kornacki as host of MSNBC’s The Cycle in April. Related: Will MSNBC’s Host Apology Streak End As Mitt Romney Accepts Latest Mea Culpa? MSNBC is expected to eventually pick one of its host rotators to get the gig on a permanent basis, reports TV Newser. At least, as permanent as hosts are on MSNBC these days. Most recently, Bashir resigned after the drumbeat failed to die down when he apologized for having suggested, on air, that someone might defecate in Sarah Palin’s mouth, after she likened the country’s debt to China to slavery — because an infamous...
- 1/8/2014
- by LISA DE MORAES, TV Columnist
- Deadline TV
2013 was a lousy year for MSNBC. First there’s the network’s sinking ratings and then that whole Alec Baldwin debacle which everyone knew was going to be a train wreck; and it was. Then if things couldn’t get any worse, there was the whole controversy over Martin Bashir and his negative remarks about Sarah Palin, which forced him (rather more like the network forced him) to resign from his 4Pm show.With Bashir gone, immediately there was talk about who would take over his slot, and everyone said that the only obvious choice was MSNBC regular contributor and political know-it-all Joy-Ann Reid. She’s been the most dependable “go to” person on the network for a long time now, and she’s...
- 12/21/2013
- by Sergio
- ShadowAndAct
Alex Wagner is taking over the 4 p.m. Et timeslot on MSNBC, the spot recently departed by Martin Bashir. The move was announced in MSNBC President Phil Griffin’s year-end email to his employees, where he lauded the network’s efforts, applauded their new website, and reenforced, “Growing and evolving our digital space will continue to be a priority in 2014.” Griffin closed his memo with the Wagner news: “Alex Wagner and the “Now” team will be moving to 4 p.m. starting Jan. 13. Alex is an incredible talent and her voice is a perfect lead-in to our evening programming. Alex, Dana Haller and the.
- 12/21/2013
- by Tony Maglio
- The Wrap
Alex Wagner is getting Martin Bashir’s 4 Pm Et timeslot starting next month. Wagner has hosted the network’s noon panel-format program “Now” since November 2011 and the move opens up that timeslot, noted TVNewser, which first reported the move. The network’s recently added anchor Ronan Farrow is scheduled to start in January but he has yet to be given an announced timeslot. Bashir resigned earlier this month after the drumbeat failed to die down when he apologized for having suggested, on air, that someone might defecate in Sarah Palin’s mouth, when she likened the country’s debt to China to slavery, because an infamous slave owner used to punish his slaves in that manner. “Upon further reflection, and after meeting with the president of MSNBC, I have tendered my resignation,” Bashir said in an email. “It is my sincere hope that all of my colleagues, at this special network,...
- 12/20/2013
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
On Friday, the panel guests on MSNBC’s Martin Bashir, guest hosted by Joy-Ann Reid on Friday, savaged Sen. Tim Scott (R-sc) who claimed he did not receive an invitation to the Martin Luther King Jr. “I Have A Dream” speech anniversary celebration but whose office did receive an invitation in early August and declined to attend. MSNBC contributor Goldie Taylor and host Touré insisted that Scott could not be seen at an event like the Mlk rally because “his constituency” would have punished him for attending that event.
- 8/30/2013
- by Noah Rothman
- Mediaite - TV
On Friday afternoon's Martin Bashir show, guest host Joy Reid led a discussion of the conservative media's attempt to promote crimes with white victims as analogous to the Trayvon Martin killing, the latest example being the senseless murder of Australian Chris Lane by three black teenagers, one of whom was actually white. Guest Heather McGhee of Demos.org pointed out the uplifting story of Antoinette Tuff, who miraculously talked down a white school shooter in Georgia this week, and claimed that Fox News "hasn't exactly been wall-to-wall" in covering Tuff's heroism.
- 8/24/2013
- by Tommy Christopher
- Mediaite - TV
Filling in for Martin Bashir Wednesday, MSNBC's Joy Reid attempted to figure out why of the 11,000 shooting deaths that occur in this country, do only a handful of them "capture the media's--and thus the public's--attention." After Newtown, Aurora and Trayvon Martin, Reid sees the media paying extra attention to the apparently random shooting of Australian Chris Lane by three "bored" Oklahoma teenagers and the narrowly avoided catastrophe at a Georgia elementary school.
- 8/22/2013
- by Matt Wilstein
- Mediaite - TV
Georgetown University Professor Michael Eric Dyson tore into CNN anchor Don Lemon and Fox News Channel host Bill O'Reilly’s on Tuesday during an appearance with MSNBC host Martin Bashir over their recent criticisms of the fracturing of the nuclear family in the black community. Dyson assailed the political commentators for underplaying the “crass materialism” and drug abuse that typify “the pathology at the heart of the white family.”...
- 7/30/2013
- by Noah Rothman
- Mediaite - TV
Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-ny) told MSNBC’s Martin Bashir on Monday that the outcome of the trial of George Zimmerman would have been different had the defendant been black and not Hispanic. If that were the case, Rangel said, the question would be whether the arresting officers would have “beat him to death” before putting him in handcuffs on the spot.
- 7/15/2013
- by Noah Rothman
- Mediaite - TV
MSNBC host Martin Bashir dug into the story of a bridge in Washington state which collapsed overnight after being struck by an oversized truck. In an interview with Rep. Peter Welch (D-vt), Bashir noted that this bridge had been flagged as being "structurally deficient" and in need of repairs for some time. He pinned the blame for the bridge’s collapse on the Republican Party in Congress which has balked at passing new infrastructure spending bills.
- 5/24/2013
- by Noah Rothman
- Mediaite - TV
It's tough to say which is the more thankless job, being the liberal guest on Fox News, or the Republican guest on MSNBC. On Thursday afternoon's Martin Bashir show, Gop strategist Ron Christie endured one of the more uncomfortable aspects of the job, as host Martin Bashir and MSNBC contributor Joy Reid refused to let Christie pass "Go" until he admitted that the IRS commissioner who presided over the currently-hot IRS scandal was appointed by "the previous administration," as George W. Bush is currently known around Washington.
- 5/16/2013
- by Tommy Christopher
- Mediaite - TV
As Republicans predict that Wednesday's hearing of the House Oversight Committee on the September 11, 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya will be President Obama's undoing, MSNBC contributor Jonathan Alter expressed skepticism about that notion. On Tuesday afternoon's Martin Bashir program, Alter responded to the upcoming hearing by calling it "kind of disgusting," and asked host Martin Bashir, rhetorically, "How can you cover up nothing?"...
- 5/7/2013
- by Tommy Christopher
- Mediaite - TV
On Monday afternoon's Martin Bashir show, fill-in host Karen Finney and guest Stephen Barton, a Newtown resident who survived the mass shooting at an Aurora, Colorado movie theater, had their discussion of gun regulations completely derailed by the lies and distortions of the conservative panelist who was booked to provide "balance." Although Finney and (especially) Barton did a decent job of knocking down conservative strategist Celia Bigelow's steady stream of unimaginative talking points, this all-too-common cable news spectacle is a deadly waste of time.
- 3/25/2013
- by Tommy Christopher
- Mediaite - TV
Conservative activist Ron Myer Jr. recently announced his intention to explore a bid for Congress in the Virginia suburbs of Washington D.C. where he resides. On Friday, Meyer appeared on MSNBC with Martin Bashir where he discussed his congressional aspirations with the host and The Nation columnist Ari Melber. Meyer was advised by Bashir and Melber, as a fiscal conservative, to find ways to not impact the more than 70,000 federal workers that live in his district.
- 3/15/2013
- by Noah Rothman
- Mediaite - TV
During an appearance on Martin Bashir’s MSNBC program, The Cycle co-host Touré tore into the notion that Fox News Channel host Geraldo Rivera could be taken seriously as a Republican candidate for Senate in New Jersey. Touré called Rivera a “joke” and a “punch line,” and added that Rivera’s moderate social values are not compatible with the present Republican Party.
- 2/1/2013
- by Noah Rothman
- Mediaite - TV
"Controversy" erupted Monday when MSNBC's Martin Bashir Live aired a clip of gun advocates “heckling” Neil Heslin, father of late Sandy Hook Elementary schooler Jesse Lewis, as he testified before the Connecticut legislature. The clip showed Mr. Heslin asking the assembled spectators "Why anybody in this room needs to have done of these assault-style weapons or military weapons or high capacity clips,” but omitted what some felt was crucial context that made the spectators' cries of "The second amendment shall not be infringed!" all okay. On Wednesday afternoon's Bashir Live, fill-in host Ari Melber addressed the "controversy," and played some additional context.
- 1/30/2013
- by Tommy Christopher
- Mediaite - TV
In 2008, MSNBC host Martin Bashir revealed to the U.K. Daily Mail that he was battling a brain tumor. He has never had the tumor removed, and it continues to frustrate him and occasionally keep him from his work. On Monday night, Bashir spoke with FishbowlDC at an inauguration party where he revealed that a recent flare up kept him from hosting his program on Friday when his seat was occupied by guest host Karen Finney.
- 1/22/2013
- by Noah Rothman
- Mediaite - TV
Former Democratic strategist and MSNBC contributor Karen Finney joined host Martin Bashir on Monday where she was asked about the National Rifle Association’s conspicuous silence in the wake of the slaughter of 26 teachers and children in Connecticut on Friday. Finney said she was not surprised that the NRA refused to comment on the tragedy, noting with mock surprise that she found it “shocking that cowards would hide” from tough questions.
- 12/17/2012
- by Noah Rothman
- Mediaite - TV
MSNBC contributor Goldie Taylor and host Touré joined Martin Bashir on Wednesday where they lambasted the Drudge Report and its proprietor, Matt Drudge, for running a headline which featured N-word nine times under a picture of filmmaker Quentin Tarantino. The headline criticized Tarantino’s new film in which Jamie Foxx plays a freed slave who returns to kill his slave masters. Taylor, however, thought Drudge's headline catered to a base group still coping with frustration over President Barack Obama’s race...
- 12/12/2012
- by Noah Rothman
- Mediaite - TV
Earlier this past week, Fox News' The Five co-host Dana Perino drew considerable ire for remarking that women could avoid being "victims of violence all the time" if they would "make better decisions." In one of the more interesting cable news segments in recent memory, Friday afternoon's Martin Bashir show tackled Perino' s comment, but rather than feast on the low-hanging fruit of Fox-bashing outrage, MSNBC contributor and Democratic strategist Karen Finney made several good points, including some qualified agreement with Perino that "I would like to see us be able to empower women to make those kinds of choices."...
- 12/9/2012
- by Tommy Christopher
- Mediaite - TV
On Tuesday, House Speaker Rep. John Boehner’s office on Capitol Hill became the subject of a siege by seven nude protesters demanding that Republican leaders back off their insistence that the federal budget be reduced in exchange for an increase in income tax rates for high wage earners. The unclothed protesters were demanding that funding for AIDS not be slashed – a demand that addresses a topic on the minds of few in Washington but the protesters themselves. When the subject came up with MSNBC host Martin Bashir on Tuesday, Lehigh Valley University Professor Dr. James Peterson praised the protesters for “raising the real issues of humanity.”...
- 11/27/2012
- by Noah Rothman
- Mediaite - TV
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