UPDATE 1:06pm– I’m told the schedule at MSNBC is “fluid.” Even though the regular shows beginning at 8pm won’t be on, we should be seeing Rachel Maddow as part of a group. It won’t be her commentary, as usual. Nicholle Wallace and Ari Melber are supposed to be on this afternoon. But it’s unclear. Everyone, by the way, is in New York. No one is in Milwaukee, so far.
keep refreshing…
EARLIER Fans of MSNBC are pretty angry today.
There was no “Morning Joe” with Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski.
Later today, there’ll be no regular hosts like Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O’Donnell, Ari Melber, et al.
Instead, MSNBC has chucked its popular hosts and shows for NBC coverage of the Republican National Convention.
A source tells me: “The standard convention week plan was for convention coverage all week so prime time shows were already preempted by convention coverage. Same with Dem convention week. that’s the way it has always been for every convention week.”
Meanwhile, Fox News and CNN stars are certain to be featured on all their convention programming.
MSNBC holds on by a thread courtesy of its show hosts. But they are a peculiar network, frightened to say the wrong thing in light of the Trump shooting over the weekend. Look for their numbers to plummet.
