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Good morning again everyone.

As an MS NBC host, Medi Hassan was last year

in March of last year for his book,

when every argument, the art of debating Persuading, and Public Speaking.

Now I'll have to argue, debate, and persuade somewhere other than the cable network.

They recently canceled his Sunday night show as part of a major restructuring

of their weekend lineup for the presidential election season and looking for

higher ratings and faced backlash because Betty is one of the few Muslim hosts anywhere on TV news and he had a fan base who felt especially served by his win every argument style.

So now Mary Hassan has launched his own media company called Zadio.

It's just a few weeks old, and he joins us to talk about it,

and a few issues in the news.

Many thanks for coming on.

Welcome back to WNYC.

Thanks for having me, Brian. And just just to clarify a couple of quick things it's Zetio which is an ancient Greek

word that means to seek out to inquire to look for the truth that's the name of the

new media company and as for the higher ratings that you mentioned a moment ago,

my show was one of the highest rated shows on MS NBC on the weekends.

So why do you think you were canceled? You'd have to ask MS NBC.

You'd have to ask MS NBC. You, I know there are sometimes contractual departure agreements, so I don't know if you're at liberty to say, but from what I've read, they canceled your shows on the network

and on the peacock streaming platform, but we're offering to keep you on as a contributor,

doing analysis and filling in for other hosts. You had previously

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