{"id":45800,"date":"2016-02-27T01:23:22","date_gmt":"2016-02-27T01:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45800"},"modified":"2016-02-27T01:23:22","modified_gmt":"2016-02-27T01:23:22","slug":"melissa-harris-perry-walks-off-her-msnbc-show-after-pre-emptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45800","title":{"rendered":"Melissa Harris-Perry Walks Off Her MSNBC Show After Pre-Emptions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Melissa Harris-Perry Walks Off Her MSNBC Show After Pre-Emptions<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a>
\n2016-02-26<\/p>\n

John Koblin<\/a><\/strong>, Television Reporter<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nMelissa Harris-Perry<\/a> said she had received no word about whether her MSNBC show<\/a> had been canceled.
\nCredit Fred R. Conrad<\/a>\/The New York Times<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Melissa Harris-Perry<\/a> said she was refusing to go on the MSNBC show she hosts<\/a> this Saturday, following several weeks of pre-emptions and what she described as a loss of editorial control.<\/p>\n

In an email sent to people she works with this week, which was obtained by The New York Times, Ms. Harris-Perry said that her show had effectively been taken away from her and that she felt \u201cworthless\u201d in the eyes of NBC News executives.<\/p>\n

\u201cHere is the reality: Our show was taken \u2014 without comment or discussion or notice \u2014 in the midst of an election season,\u201d she wrote. \u201cAfter four years of building an audience, developing a brand and developing trust with our viewers, we were effectively and utterly silenced.\u201d…<\/p>\n

…Ms. Harris-Perry is black, and Mr. Lack and Mr. Griffin are white. In the phone interview on Friday, Ms. Harris-Perry clarified her remarks and said she did not think race played a role in her recent absence from the air.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know if there is a personal racial component,\u201d she said. \u201cI don\u2019t think anyone is doing something mean to me because I\u2019m a black person.\u201d…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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