NBC's Andrea Mitchell Will End Her Namesake MSNBC Show

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Source: The Daily Beast

NBC and MSNBC legend Andrea Mitchell will be leaving her namesake show sometime after the inauguration next year, she said on Tuesday. She’ll pivot to a reporting-focused role—without a daily show.

The anchor announced her decision on Tuesday’s Andrea Mitchell Reports, a day shy of her 78th birthday. The move marks an end to the 16-year-old MSNBC show, the longest-running daytime program on MSNBC and one that helped make Mitchell a star throughout her nearly 50-year career with the Peacock networks.

“After 16 years of being in the anchorage chair every day, I want time to do more of what I love the most: for connecting, listening and reporting in the field, especially whoever is elected next week is going to undertake the fundamental task of handling two foreign wars and the political divisions here at home,” Mitchell said on Tuesday.

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/nbcs-andrea-mitchell-will-leave-her-namesake-msnbc-show/

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[Zorro]

1. Good riddance

She's been insufferable for decades.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

2. Give Katie Phang the time slot!!!

[Polly Hennessey]

13. Yes!👍

[demmiblue]

16. +1

[dem4decades]

18. Yep, Phang, not Katie Tur.

[Comfortably_Numb]

33. Trump's stenographer? That Katie Tur? I notice there was never any fallout from that revelation.

Katie Turd and Magat Haberman just keep up the lickspittle job.

[dem4decades]

35. If Trump wins, she'll probably get the slot, she knows how to make pro Trump news.

MSNBC will be hedging their bets if the Shit stain wins.

[Bitbit]

3. Yeah!

[Funtatlaguy]

4. Excellent news

[dweller]

5. I didn't realize she broadcasts

from Alaska …
🤔



✌🏻

[Omnipresent]

8. They keep her up there.

She’s a cold person, so she keeps some of the ice in that region from melting.

[BaronChocula]

22. I always assumed New Jersey

HACK-ensack

[Srkdqltr]

6. Not until January. Didn't she say that last year?

[Squaredeal]

7. So glad.

Never watch the show. She comes across as insincere to me.

[LiberalFighter]

9. "After 16 years of being in the anchorage chair every day"

Every day?

I've seen plenty of times she wasn't on.

[Escurumbele]

10. Good

[rubbersole]

11. Please leave now.

And I'd never say "Go make Alan a sammich" because that wouldn't be nice.

[surfered]

12. She's the same age as Trump and she's hanging it up.

Trump is the oldest Presidential candidate in US history

[Shellback Squid]

14. GTFO now, she's a mrs greenspan

[brush]

34. She's 7 effin 8, seems she'd want to spend time with her husband. Must be trouble in paradise.

Go already, Mrs. Greenspan.

[ificandream]

15. Thanks for all your great work, Andrea. Best of luck to you in the future.

[Ray Bruns]

17. Oh no. Stop. Don't leave. Come back.

https://m.

[2naSalit]

19. She won't be missed...

Surely not in my home.

[Grins]

20. "NBC and MSNBC legend..." Really?

"Legend?" As in myth?

Shouldn't she be at home feeding soup through a straw to her 98-year old Pope of All Capitalism husband, Alan "Surpluses are bad!" Greenspan?

[BumRushDaShow]

26. Sounds like they were trying to make a Leslie Stahl out of her

(or Barbara Walters).

[BaronChocula]

21. At first this made my day

Until I realized that MSNBC will probably replace her with Ryan Girdusky.

[rurallib]

23. Opportunity for MSNBC to really commit to liberalism

So I assume they will screw it up and put Chuck Todd at the desk.

My pick would be Ali Velshi for a slot. As others noted above, Katie Phang is certainly deserving.

[BumRushDaShow]

24. THANK GOODNESS

She should have left when Tweety left.

[ravjav]

25. GREAT NEWS!!!! NT

[Loryn]

27. Don't let the door

Yada, yada, yada

[Mr.Bill]

28. I hear there's some vacancies at the Washington Post.

She would fit right in.

[Basso8vb]

29. I will continue to never watch her in the meantime.

[Doc Sportello]

30. YES!!!!!

Velshi hopefully replaces her. He's earned it.

[Vinca]

31. At long last. I've set speed records grabbing the remote when she appears.

[ZonkerHarris]

32. buh bye now

[RussBLib]

36. Why put off till tomorrow

...what you can do today? Or, better late than never.

https://russblib.blogspot.com/?m=1

[iluvtennis]

37. Good news - someone else has been needed in this slot for a longtime now - fingers crossed for Katie Phang. n/t

[LudwigPastorius]

38. Don't despair, Andrea.

With Tommy John surgery, you can be back to throwing softballs to fascists in no time.

[RealityCheque]

40. Love it

[underpants]

39. ....all the way off

[ToxMarz]

41. Womp, womp

[mjvpi]

42. Our shared grief of age. She seems to have aphasia at times. I should talk.

I’ve watched her and just willed for her to get a thought all the way to completion. Have definite views on her as a journalist, but I think this may be a very human development.

[Bird Lady]

43. It is about damn time!

Now if she could take Dana Bash with her. I know she is not on the same network but that does not mean she is not as odious Andrea. Andrea has exceeded her sell by date and she should go.

[Omaha Steve]

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