Victor Davis Hanson: MSNBC Is a ‘Money-Losing Operation’

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🗓️ 7 March 2025

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While Rachel Maddow decries the network for firing Joy Reid and large swaths of news presenters, they conveniently leave out that Reid worked a fraction of the time her Fox counterparts did for a larger salary. If Maddow really cares about the recently fired news staff, she’d forgo her $25 million annual salary and give it away, argues Victor Davis Hanson on this edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.” “ As far as Joy Reid goes, she had an audience of about 150,000. … Everybody else had no idea what she—who she was or what she was saying. She was getting at $1.3 million dollars. “ Very politically connected people have one rule, one protocol, one value judgment for all of us. And, they have no intention of following it themselves. They’re never subject to the consequences of their ideology. “Do you realize, if you just said, ‘I, Rachel Maddow, tonight promise that I will work my 52 days this year for free, given the ample compensation I have received, and I will fund 250 staffers at MSNBC for $100,000 a year, given what I make, $25 million.’ Let’s just try that.” The Daily Signal cannot continue to tell stories, like this one, without the support of our viewers: https://secured.dailysignal.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'd like to talk about some hypocrisy that's been in the news lately.
0:04.0	MSNBC is a money-losing operation.
0:07.0	They are firing entire swath of news presenters and readers and also staff.
0:12.0	But here's my point.
0:13.0	Let's take Rachel Madd out.
0:15.0	Her audiences declined drastically.
0:17.0	She typically works one day out of five per week.
0:20.0	She went on MSNBC and blasted them for firing Jory Reid,
0:24.6	and especially treating, she said, their shared staff poorly,
0:29.6	and they laid them off, and she was very angry.
0:31.6	Rachel, you probably made $100 or $200 million.
0:34.6	If you really are upset about the firing of poor Jory Reid and the firing of the staff, I have a polite suggestion for you.
0:43.3	Hello, this is Victor Davis Hansen for The Daily Signal.
0:58.2	I'd like to talk about some hypocrisy that's been in the news lately, and it tends to be
1:03.8	mostly on the left and mostly by very elite people that you wouldn't expect because we were
1:09.1	told, of course, they were populists and men and
1:11.3	women of the people. Let's take Rachel Maddow. She's on MSNBC. Her audience has declined drastically.
1:19.7	She typically works one day out of five per week. I think after the election, she was coming in a
1:26.6	little bit more often, and that's going to terminate, and she'll go back to her one day.
1:30.5	She took a pay cut from $30 million to $25 million. MSNBC is a money-losing operation.
1:40.6	They are firing entire swath of news presenters and readers and also staff.
1:47.0	But here's my point. She went on MSNBC this week and blasted them for firing Jory Reid.
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