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MSNBC severs ties with Melissa Harris-Perry after host\u2019s critical email<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The Washington Post<\/a>
\n2016-02-28<\/p>\n

Paul Farhi<\/a><\/strong>, Media Reporter<\/p>\n

MSNBC<\/a> has parted ways with host Melissa Harris-Perry<\/a> after she complained about preemptions of her weekend program<\/a> and implied that there was a racial aspect to the cable-news network\u2019s treatment, insiders at MSNBC said.<\/p>\n

Harris-Perry refused to appear on her program Saturday morning, telling her co-workers in an email<\/a> that she felt \u201cworthless\u201d to the NBC<\/a>-owned network. \u201cI will not be used as a tool for their purposes,\u201d wrote Harris-Perry, who is African American. \u201cI am not a token, mammy or little brown bobble head. I am not owned by [NBC executives] or MSNBC. I love our show. I want it back.\u201d<\/p>\n

The rebuke, which became public when it was obtained by the New York Times<\/em><\/a>, has triggered discussions involving the network, Harris-Perry and her representatives about the terms of her departure, said people at MSNBC, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because Harris-Perry\u2019s departure has not been formally announced…<\/p>\n

..All of the changes carry a potential perception risk that MSNBC \u2014 known as the most liberal among the three leading cable-news networks \u2014 is diminishing the contributions of its minority personalities, network officials acknowledge. In addition to the issues with Harris-Perry and Diaz-Balart<\/a>, the network\u2019s new emphasis on news during the day has led to the demotion of two African American hosts: the Rev. Al Sharpton <\/a>and Joy Reid<\/a>, both of whom have been moved from daily shows to lower-profile weekend slots. (Reid assumed Harris-Perry\u2019s hosting duties on Saturday.)…<\/p>\n

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MSNBC severs ties with Melissa Harris-Perry after host\u2019s critical email The Washington Post 2016-02-28 Paul Farhi, Media Reporter MSNBC has parted ways with host Melissa Harris-Perry after she complained about preemptions of her weekend program and implied that there was a racial aspect to the cable-news network\u2019s treatment, insiders at MSNBC said. Harris-Perry refused to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,8413,8,20],"tags":[6477,2684,23086,2875,2581],"class_list":["post-45820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-communications","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-melissa-harris-perry","tag-msnbc","tag-paul-farhi","tag-the-washington-post","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45821,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45820\/revisions\/45821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}