Update: July 4, 2023
As I write this review, Joe was MIA Monday through Thursday of last week ("On assignment"), according to Mika. On assignment where? If he couldn't get out of his bed, she could merely have said that he was "under the weather." Last Friday, Joe was there (Mika MIA) , had trouble containing hmself and was clearly off the rails. Totally unwatchable so I stopped watching. Because I've been boycotting CNN since the Trump Town Hall fiasco, I instead watched recorded episodes of House Hunters and the Law and Order franchises. Far preferable to the train wreck last Friday. Yesterday (July 3) they were both MIA, perhaps stressed out by their hard work last week. And, now, as we approach the end of July, not only have Joe and Mika been MIA for most of the month, but now Willie seems to be joining the no-show gala, making three out of the three moderators off somewhere while Jonathan Lamire was yanked from Way to Early to moderate today's show.
MSNBC seems to love rewarding its anchors for not showing up. Mika earns a $10 million annual salary +bonus, Joe $6 million +$4 million bonus. Rachel Maddow scored a $20 million annual contract + $5 million bonus for working one day a week. Posters have taken to asking if she's retired. She doesn't need to! She can collect a paycheck for staying away from the network.
Whatever the MSNBC executives are getting paid, it's 99% too much for the time and trouble they seem to expend reining in the free-loading slackers and laggards who grace its airwaves only when they have nothing better to do. Give the Morning Joe over to Willie, Katty Kay, Mike Barnicle and the others who keep this sinking ship afloat and without whom there would only be a rudderless ship heading straight for the iceberg.
MSNBC seems to love rewarding its anchors for not showing up. Mika earns a $10 million annual salary +bonus, Joe $6 million +$4 million bonus. Rachel Maddow scored a $20 million annual contract + $5 million bonus for working one day a week. Posters have taken to asking if she's retired. She doesn't need to! She can collect a paycheck for staying away from the network.
Whatever the MSNBC executives are getting paid, it's 99% too much for the time and trouble they seem to expend reining in the free-loading slackers and laggards who grace its airwaves only when they have nothing better to do. Give the Morning Joe over to Willie, Katty Kay, Mike Barnicle and the others who keep this sinking ship afloat and without whom there would only be a rudderless ship heading straight for the iceberg.