This week, JoyAnnReid will not only become the only African-American woman to currently hold a prime time spot in network news, but will take on the challenge of reshaping the time slot that Hardball defined for a generation.
, giving explanations, none of which made much sense. Reid said someone must have hacked her work, that she didn’t believe she—the mother of an LGBTQ woman—was capable of writing those words. Later, other offensive columns came to light. She railed via tweet against a piece by conservative writer David French, without actually reading the article. She apologized for all of them.
Over the past few months, Reid has witnessed an entire nation’s belief system on race radically evolve. Following the killing of George Floyd in May and the worldwide protests that followed, America seems ready, finally ready, to take in the very things she’s spoken on for years. Before the hoodie became a menacing totem for the alt-right in Florida, Reid fretted over her children’s clothes. She wasn’t worried about other kids. She feared something else.
When Caesar Conde, the newly-minted chairman of the NBCUniversal News group called in mid-June, Reid says she thought little of it. After all, Conde, who took over in May, was speaking to a lot of people at the network. In that chat she laid out what’s needed with coverage should either Trump or Joe Biden win in November. In one scenario, the press needed to be more proactive when faced with a nation teetering on the edge of authoritarianism.
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