MSNBC Touts Five Female Daytime Anchors, Gets Immediately Called Out For No Women of Color

[Trumpocalypse]

MSNBC Touts Five Female Daytime Anchors, Gets Immediately Called Out For No Women of Color
By Morgan PhillipsJun 7th, 2019, 10:23 am


MSNBC proudly shared a Los Angeles Times article on Twitter boasting its female-dominated daytime programming, along with a photo of its five female daytime anchors. It was not lost on the public that all the women in the image were white.

The LA Times article was entitled “The Women Warriors of NBC” and detailed how five women– Stephanie Ruhle, Hallie Jackson, Andrea Mitchell, Katy Tur, and Nicolle Wallace— came to dominate its daytime programming. The article points out that this directive comes in light of criticism of the network for its “sluggish” investigation of sexual harassment claims at NBC.

MSNBC captioned the tweet, “The five female anchors who now shape most of the daytime news programming at MSNBC.”

Almost all of the tweet’s nearly 2,000 replies pointed out its lack of diversity. Soledad O’Brien, who previously worked for MSNBC and now hosts a weekly talk show produced by Hearst television, quoted the tweet and added, “Zero women of color in this picture.”

Link to tweet

https://www.mediaite.com/news/msnbc-touts-five-female-daytime-anchors-gets-immediately-called-out-for-no-women-of-color/

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Can't lose the Fake Noise viewers.

[Takket]

8. All zero of them...

[StarfishSaver]

2. Nothing like getting ratioed because your brag about diversity proves how little diversity you have

Who at MSNBC let this tweet fly without noticing this?

Wow.

[procon]

3. No Joy?

It not like they can't see her, they use her to fill in for everyone else, so why don't they give her a shot?

MSNBC also has several contributors who appease as guests or panelists for every host, but they don't get their own shows.

MSNBC used to be much more diverse, but then suddenly all the hosts of color lost their gigs and were gone. What happened?

[spooky3]

26. Craig Melvin, Ali Velshi have prominent daytime shows. Nt

[wasupaloopa]

4. Seems to me that very many of their guests are people

of color. MSNBC does good in that case.

[obamanut2012]

9. And that has to do with this how?

[wasupaloopa]

24. I can't make an observation? I just don't play the lemming game good enough I guess.

[brush]

5. Talk about unawareness. Why did this lack of diversity not come to mind...

of anyone there?

[marble falls]

6. Its like a smart version of Fox. Why doesn't Joy Reid get the job she's more than qualified for?

[Hekate]

12. Really? All busty blond airheads spouting propaganda narratives & provocatively crossing their legs?

REALLY?

Jesus Christ on a Trailer Hitch.

[demmiblue]

14. Lol... no kidding.

[marble falls]

15. I don't think its as specific you think. I find it interesting that Fox and MSNBC 5 are from ...

a segment of society that not even most white women meet.

Why not at least Joy Reid? Is she - I dunno - too old? When she covers for Rachel Maddow, the show is still good but its more the Joy Reid show and its a goood show.

That's all I'm saying.

[demmiblue]

13. Probably because of her past homophobia/homophobic blog posts.

Not a good look for a major media personality.

She probably wouldn't have even been hired if that came to light before her hiring.

And... yes, I know, people can change.

[marble falls]

16. I understand that. She says that's not her now and I believe her. I believe she has guilt and ...

shame over the things she says she matured out of it. I imagine her life has been gone over extremely closely over the last four or so years by many people, many times. Nothing else has popped up.

But I do understand how offensive some the things I believe she has admitted to saying, were.

[Submariner]

7. Shitcan Andrea Greenspan and Hallie Jackson

Bring on Tamron Hall and Wanda Sykes.

[Hekate]

17. Did it occur to you to "shitcan" one of the MEN?

And if not, why not?

[Submariner]

18. No

Because this OP is all about daytime female anchors with no women of color.

Post an OP about too many male anchors and I’m all in on dumping a few of them including Chuck Todd, Scarborough, Matthews, Huey Hewitt for starters.

[Hekate]

20. Gotcha. In someone's mind (surely not yours) the quota for female anchors is 5 and is filled. nt

[Wounded Bear]

25. I think the "quota" is set by how many 1 hour time slots are available...

in the time period labeled "daytime."

[JI7]

19. Hallie Jackson is one of the better ones they have. i

[Submariner]

21. She is, but I was selecting just 2 whiteys from the 5 in the photo

I would normally get rid of the Bush republicans on the far left, but she seems to hate Trump almost as much as I do, so I'm letting her slide for now.

If they also showed that KC/DC right winger in the photo that would be my top pick of on-air personalities to trash.

[JI7]

22. Chuck Todd is the one that needs to go

[Hekate]

10. No good deed goes unpunished. Still, useful to have it pointed out.

[demmiblue]

11. If it were up to me, I would offer Maya Wiley a place in the line-up...

preferably to replace Tweety or Toad. I always enjoy her appearances on MSNBC.

[DeminPennswoods]

23. I would too!

She's great and has a very disarming, conversational style. A lot like Larry King where the calmness can elicit some really unexpected revelations.

[Mike Nelson]

27. I would not have known...

… but I trust their heritage has been checked... Personally, I would like to see Joy Reid with them... she has as many hours, with her long weekend shows and fill-ins... she really belongs with the group.

[Raine]

28. This is what happens when you promote youself as a role model

while having "feet of clay".