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Joy Reid

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first: 2025-08-28
most recent: 2025-08-28
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“Look, I made more money than my mom ever made as a college professor. You know what I mean? So I'm not crying over my salary at all. It was actually a wonderful salary gave me a home and wonderful life and helped me to put my kids through college without debt, you know. So I'm very thankful for everything that I had. But it's just, you know, the disparity between men and women, you know, the disparities are just real. They just are.”
2025-08-28 · On with Kara Swisher · Joy Reid on Dems, Gaza & Independent Media · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“thrown under the bus by someone who threw our salaries out there so everyone can just you know can see that there are men who've done my job who make a lot more money doing the exact same job as me that is just a fact and i think every woman in media knows that that's a fact right there are very few women who make what the men who do their same jobs make that's just a fact and it's not a diss to anyone it's just a it's just the truth right yeah um”
2025-08-28 · On with Kara Swisher · Joy Reid on Dems, Gaza & Independent Media · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It was hyperbole. Yeah, it was hyperbole. Yeah, it was hyperbole. Yeah. Everyone's paid differently and everyone has their own, you know, contracts and they do their own negotiations. I think definitely I was one of the lower paid. Look, this isn't me saying, you know, Stephanie Ruhle and I got.”
2025-08-28 · On with Kara Swisher · Joy Reid on Dems, Gaza & Independent Media · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“12 minute limitation. We can talk to somebody for a good amount of time and really give them the time to talk. We had Robert Greenwald on the last show, and he's somebody I've admired for so long. And I actually got to sit and talk to him for 20 minutes as opposed to seven, you know, and I think that's really important. You know, I will give, and I'm not necessarily a fan, but Tucker Carlson's like hour and a half interview with Ted Cruz was excellent. Like it was good because they could actually have the conversation. Correct.”
2025-08-28 · On with Kara Swisher · Joy Reid on Dems, Gaza & Independent Media · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I definitely feel like I can cover the things I want to cover without worrying about getting. The joy read show at the network. I just don't think I could. I think it would not be welcomed or I would do it and then I would have to hear about it and I would have to have an argument about it. So it's so liberating that I can just cover the things I want to cover and I don't have to deal with that. I can post what I want to post. We also can go long without that seven minute.”
2025-08-28 · On with Kara Swisher · Joy Reid on Dems, Gaza & Independent Media · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“In this house for a year and a half, I never met some of my producers for a year and a half. They were a tiny teams person to me for a year and a half, but we still put on a show. You know, we still interviewed Joe Biden. You know, we could do that from home. And so I think that the economies of scale problem I think became apparent to all of these networks during COVID because they realized they could lay off, you know, I used to have a like dozen people on the crew of my day sideshow, like a dozen. If I wanted to move a cup, two people ran out and pulled the cup out of the way, right? All those people got laid off during COVID and they didn't bring them back, most of them.”
2025-08-28 · On with Kara Swisher · Joy Reid on Dems, Gaza & Independent Media · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I mean, the thing is, I think COVID Taught us a lot of lessons. It taught us a lot of lessons about our collective mental health being very poor, our trust in government being very poor. But I think in the TV world, it taught us that we could do TV without a studio at all. You know, I launched the readout from home and we did it from my basement.”
2025-08-28 · On with Kara Swisher · Joy Reid on Dems, Gaza & Independent Media · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, I mean, it's a lot, and so I'm an old producer. You know, I used to actually be a booking producer, I've been a producer, producer. So I've done all these jobs, just not all at the same time and being talent as well. And so doing all the things, and my husband and I, it's our company, and taking on all of the responsibility of all of it, of writing, of producing, of, you know, and we got excellent bookers, thank God. It's a lot. And so I think my time management skills are not great because I have serious ADHD. So trying to manage that and managing the substack, it's a lot. I just think it's the volume of work and the not sleeping and the working 20 hours a day.”
2025-08-28 · On with Kara Swisher · Joy Reid on Dems, Gaza & Independent Media · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's, you know what? The biggest challenge for me is doing everything, right? With a much smaller team Staff's Staff Zero. It is really a lot.”
2025-08-28 · On with Kara Swisher · Joy Reid on Dems, Gaza & Independent Media · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I actually just loved it. I loved my show. I absolutely loved, still love, and talk to you all the time, my executive producer, Tina Urbansky, was just so brilliant. And we had this little family, you know, my AMJ family was obviously a great little family too. The Reed Report family, you know, these become your family. And I had no intention of not being with them. So I didn't do it earlier because I just love these people so much, my coworkers, my fellow anchors, the little specials we would do. I thought it was fun. And when I'm having fun, I don't try to go. I just try to keep having fun.”
2025-08-28 · On with Kara Swisher · Joy Reid on Dems, Gaza & Independent Media · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Know what I think. I think I was loyal to the audience and the brand. I mean, I really honestly, when I say this, you know, I'm not the medianate of a cable news viewer, but I really loved MSNBC. I'll be honest with you. I mean, I did come in in the Phil Griffin sort of golden age of MSNBC”
2025-08-28 · On with Kara Swisher · Joy Reid on Dems, Gaza & Independent Media · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Was not made an option, no. And that was the other thing that was sort of there were a couple of things that were unusual. One is, you know, I've had three shows at this network, right? My first show was canceled in 2015. And normally what happens is they just lop off the host and all the team stays, you know. So, the first thing that was unusual was that everybody got laid off. And I think that was the other thing that Rachel's, you know, really true righteous indignation was about was all our teams got affected. You know, people were getting told they had to reapply for their jobs like Survivor. And that was not the way things normally went. And that was, to me, the most upsetting thing. I had, you know, 15 staffers who were suddenly scrambling for jobs. And that just felt really unfair.”
2025-08-28 · On with Kara Swisher · Joy Reid on Dems, Gaza & Independent Media · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And then at the end of January, we won the NAACP Image Award, two of them for the show. And the last communications I was having with the network were congratulations on winning the award and what should we do on the PR. And they had been very helpful in doing my book tour. I mean, you know, really, I mean, Rebecca Cutler really organized the fabulous event that Rachel and I did. So I thought we were good. Like I was in the congratulations, you're the new president mode when the two weeks later it was like, you're out of here. So I guess I was shocked but not surprised, I guess if you could explain it. Yeah.”
2025-08-28 · On with Kara Swisher · Joy Reid on Dems, Gaza & Independent Media · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, he and I did not agree on social media, but a great guy otherwise. But when Rashida Jones took over, you know, they weren't, they didn't love the social media thing, but it does help you. It helps grow your audience. And I know there are multiple audiences, as you know, Kara. There's an audience that really just gets their news from social media and there's an audience that gets their news from cable. And I always felt that as a journalist, I was missing something if I wasn't in both those places. That's why I was so social media and still am. But we got through all of that. And my agent and I were like, you know what? We may or may not get resigned. We weren't sure we were going to get resigned in the fall. But then we got resigned. And I'm like, oh, okay, we're good.”
2025-08-28 · On with Kara Swisher · Joy Reid on Dems, Gaza & Independent Media · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Do. The reason I say it was unexpected is I literally had just gotten resigned. It's not that I didn't realize that management and I had very huge differences of opinion. I had been, you know, hauled into enough HR meetings that were almost always about Gaza, about something I posted about Gaza or said about Gaza on my social media or about white Christian nationalism where people were upset someone internally was angry, but it was much, much more Gaza. And it was very clear that my coverage and position on. Beloved, you know, inside the network and was not sort of normal inside the network. I think Chris Hayes was the only other person that kind of held a similar view to me. So I wasn't surprised and they hated my social media. This goes all the way back to even my buddy Phil. I love Phil Griffin, but he was just like, get off Twitter.”
2025-08-28 · On with Kara Swisher · Joy Reid on Dems, Gaza & Independent Media · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's what news is. I mean, look, it's the oldies that watch cable. So, like, they need a catheter, and they do have a rash.”
2025-08-28 · On with Kara Swisher · Joy Reid on Dems, Gaza & Independent Media · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know what I mean? Or something that had the blue word in it because people who watch MSNBC are on the blue side of the red blue divide. So it would sort of fit with blue sky”
2025-08-28 · On with Kara Swisher · Joy Reid on Dems, Gaza & Independent Media · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I wouldn't have changed the name, but I think if you change the name Yeah, they had to also because look, they're under a lot of pressure. I kind of feel for the new corporate suits that are running that place because they answer to a higher authority named Donald Trump, right? Donald Trump is a vengeful, vicious, vindictive man, and Brendan Carr, who wrote, you know, this part of the handmaid's tale files, Project 2025, he wrote that part of it. And it was very clear that vengeance against the media was part of it, right? So they had to make these changes in order to do what the new bosses want to do, which is mergers and acquisitions. They want to buy and sell and they want to do these media ventures and they can't do them if Brendan Carr says no, right? Like, you know, the FCC doesn't control cable. They only can do it to broadcast, but they can mess with their business in a very ugly way. So I get that they had to change it. I guess if I had to pick something and I was sort of in the marketing brain of a corporate person, I might have called it something like Blue News.”
2025-08-28 · On with Kara Swisher · Joy Reid on Dems, Gaza & Independent Media · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It is. And I mean, the thing about it is, you know, she is so much the brand. I guess I'm sad for it, the change as a lifer MSNBC fan. I was a person that had it on all day. Even before I was on there, I was watching. I watched Chris Matthews from like his first show. Like I was a super Chris Matthews fan. And I, you know, and absolutely love Rachel. Rachel is genius. Whatever Rachel is for is probably right. If she says it, then it's probably true. And if she's down with it, you know, if she likes it, I love it. But I just, I guess I'm sad for the people who come up to me in the airports who are like, I love MSN. They're MSNBC fans. It is like the Muppet Show to them. It's Sesame Street. It is such a brand that is meaningful to people. And so I think people who love it are not going to love that it's not called MSNBC. And they associate it so much with Rachel, with, you know, with the great Lawrence O'Donnell, with, you know, Chris Hayes. And it's all.”
2025-08-28 · On with Kara Swisher · Joy Reid on Dems, Gaza & Independent Media · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I feel like they're like, will Trump like this? I feel like that's in the minds of all marketing people right now is, will Trump be mad? And I feel like I don't know what they're trying to do. I think the idea was to cut the connection with NBC, right? Like they were willing to keep the Microsoft, but not the NBC, you know, which tells me they're still using Teams.”
2025-08-28 · On with Kara Swisher · Joy Reid on Dems, Gaza & Independent Media · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“First of all, look, God bless them. I wish them all the best of luck. It looks like Ms. Now to me. I feel like the logo, the red, white, and blue is giving a little news max. It's a little America, you know?”
2025-08-28 · On with Kara Swisher · Joy Reid on Dems, Gaza & Independent Media · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT