During this weekend “Saturday night Live“Weekend update, co-stake Michael Che Indicated an uncomfortable truth: NBCUNIVERSAL is losing two major black news anchors at the same time.
MSNBC Anchor Joy reedThose who had earlier filled the slot at 7 pm have been allowed to go as part of the large -scale reshuffle of talent in the news cabler. And NBC Nightley News Anchor Lester Holt Announced this week That he was departing on the chair after a decade.
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“This week, MSNBC fired its only non-white primetime host, and Lester Holt announced that he was moving as an anchor of NBC Nightley News,” Che said. “Okay, NBC, only one more to go, the child,” he said, as he pointed to a picture of himself.
Che has co-institution “RiderSince 2014, the weekend update with Colin Jost, changed the Cesili Strong in the role. (Che and Jost served as co-head authors in SNL from 2017 to 2022.)
Reed and Holt’s departure come from very different corners: Holt announced his own departure for employees this week: “After 10 years, 17, if you include my years in the weekend, it is time for me to stay away from my role as an anchor of ‘night news’. This has actually been a lifetime respect for working with each of you every day, keeping journalism as our true answer and our audience, at the center of what we do, ”Holt wrote. He announced together that he would remain in NBC News and focus his work on “Dateline”.
For Reid, which has been the mainstay of one week in MSNBC since 2020 (When he replaced experienced Chris Matthews), The departure has come with a lot of controversy. This included criticism inside MSNBC, where Star Host Rachel Madwow exploded his employer to let Reid go. “Joy Reid’s show, ‘The Readout,’ ended tonight. And Joy is not doing a separate work in the network. She is completely leaving the network and she is very, very, very difficult,” Madwow Said on 24 February“I don’t want to lose him as an associate in MSNBC, and personally, I think it’s a bad mistake to let him go out of the door.”
