In an April edition of her program, Reid noted that she attempted to prove the hacking but that her experts hadn’t come through with the goods. “We must rally around Joy Reid,” wrote the Erik Wemple Blog in a spirit of comity and justice-seeking righteousness. Meanwhile, in rapid succession, MSNBC on Friday afternoon released a statement from Joy Reid and a statement from the network itself, its first on this controversy. MSNBC:Some of the things written by Joy on her old blog are obviously hateful and hurtful. The hacking claims that she’d made in April, after a wave of old homophobic posts embarrassed the progressive TV host.

Source: Washington Post June 01, 2018 19:41 UTC