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UPDATE: MSNBC host Joy Reid devoted an extended segment of her show on Wednesday to media stereotypes about Muslims, after several groups called on her to apologize for a question she posed earlier in the week. Reid acknowledged that the way she framed the question “obviously did not work.” On Monday, in a segment on…

MSNBC said that Monday’s debut of The ReidOut, Joy Reid’s new nightly 7 PM ET show, averaged 2.6 million total viewers and scored the second-highest rating for a regularly scheduled show on the network for that hour. Reid’s guests included Vice President Joe Biden and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Fox…

Joy Reid’s first guest on her new nightly MSNBC show The ReidOut was presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden, who gave her an update on his search for a running mate. Reid generally posed questions to Biden that reflected some of his campaign’s talking points, including President Donald Trump’s handling of the…

An appellate court has ruled that Joy Reid, the new host of MSNBC’s 7 PM weeknight hour, should again face a defamation lawsuit over a woman’s claim that, in Reid’s social media posts, she falsely accused her of making racist remarks at a 2018 Simi Valley, CA city council meeting. The plaintiff in the case, Roslyn La…

Joy Reid will start her new weeknight MSNBC show on July 20, filling the 7 PM ET slot that has been vacated since the departure of Chris Matthews. The ReidOut will be based in Washington. MSNBC said that the new show will draw on Reid’s experience in politics and covering the intersection of race, justice and…

Joy Reid is in talks to fill the 7 PM ET slot once held by Chris Matthews and his longtime MSNBC show Hardball, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Reid currently hosts AM Joy, a weekend program on the network, and has been a substitute host for other nighttime hosts including Rachel Maddow and Chris Hayes. She…

Tough-talking actor Samuel L. Jackson wished President Donald Trump a happy birthday on Friday, but the Twitterverse took exception to the perceived anti-gay slurs in the message and laid their vengeance upon him. Jackson’s tweet: "Must have been a party at The White House, Mitch, Paul, Rudy & others were spotted…

It isn't surprising that MSNBC is still supporting the blog besieged and increasingly apologizing Joy Reid but Sean Hannity might have been one of the last people you'd think would come forward to say the host should keep her cable gig. But that's what the accurately self-described "number one rated host in cable" did…

MSNBC is standing by Joy Reid in the wake of new revelations about even more incendiary old blog posts. “Some of the things written by Joy on her old blog are obviously hateful and hurtful,” MSNBC said this afternoon in a statement. This after Reid issued yet another statement explaining/apologizing/defending her…

MSNBC host Joy Reid has apologized for disparaging comments against LGBT people found on her blog The Reid Report, admitting that there has been no evidence of hacking discovered. After earlier denying authorship of the hurtful remarks, Reid came clean Saturday at the beginning of her MSNBC show AM Joy.  "I genuinely…

Updated with Daily Beast column suspension: The Daily Beast suspended Joy Reid's column as its cybersecurity and media reporters investigate Reid's claims she is victim of a cyberattack in which dozens of homophobic statements were added into the archive of her old blog. Daily Beast Executive Editor Noah Shachtman…

Visiting Texas and boasting Hurricane Harvey is the biggest disaster of all time is the way President Donald Trump speaks about everything, MSNBC’s Joy Reid explained to Trevor Noah on The Daily Show. “He sees everything in terms of ratings and crowd size,” Reid said last night. “The accomplishment he sees in Harvey…