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Joy Reid’s Sudden MSNBC Exit — and How She Let Queer Viewers Down
Joy Reid's past blog posts about Charlie Crist and 'Brokeback Mountain' were homophobic; she never quite claimed them as her own
The author of three books about politics, Reid’s personal story as the child of immigrants raised in Brooklyn was inspiring, and her status as a relatively rare Black woman in cable news made her a magnet both for fandom and vitriol. And it suggests a desire, on the part of the venerable left-leaning outlet to find a formula to more ably report and comment on the Trump presidency while also preparing to join other NBCU cable networks in being spun off into a new company. A Reid who was capable of admitting that she had written fairly out-of-pocket but not out-of-the-mainstream things at a different moment in history might have been a study in how views evolve — she might, funnily enough, have been a still more compelling broadcast figure, for the evolution she plainly underwent.
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