TMC
02-27-2016, 03:17 AM
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/27/business/media/melissa-harris-perry-walks-off-her-msnbc-show-after-pre-emptions.html?_r=0
In an e-mail to her bosses at MSNBC (http://forums.previously.tv/topic/3523-msnbc-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/page-7), Harris-Perry (http://www.lipstickalley.com/showthread.php/998088-Melissa-Harris-Perry-Walks-Off-Her-MSNBC-Show-After-Pre-Emptions) expressed frustration that her weekend show keeps getting pulled from presidential campaign coverage. “I will not be used as a tool for their purposes,” she wrote. “I am not a token, mammy (http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2016/02/26/harris-perry-refuses-show-msnbc-i-am-not-token-mammy-or-little-brown), or little brown bobble head. I am not owned by (NBC News chairman Andrew) Lack, (MSNBC president Phil) Griffin or MSNBC. I love our show. I want it back.”
In an e-mail to her bosses at MSNBC (http://forums.previously.tv/topic/3523-msnbc-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/page-7), Harris-Perry (http://www.lipstickalley.com/showthread.php/998088-Melissa-Harris-Perry-Walks-Off-Her-MSNBC-Show-After-Pre-Emptions) expressed frustration that her weekend show keeps getting pulled from presidential campaign coverage. “I will not be used as a tool for their purposes,” she wrote. “I am not a token, mammy (http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2016/02/26/harris-perry-refuses-show-msnbc-i-am-not-token-mammy-or-little-brown), or little brown bobble head. I am not owned by (NBC News chairman Andrew) Lack, (MSNBC president Phil) Griffin or MSNBC. I love our show. I want it back.”