{"id":4685,"date":"2008-08-19T14:09:13","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T21:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/08\/19\/msnbc-gives-maddow-a-show-of-her-own\/"},"modified":"2008-08-19T14:09:13","modified_gmt":"2008-08-19T21:29:01","slug":"msnbc-gives-maddow-a-show-of-her-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4685","title":{"rendered":"MSNBC Gives Maddow a Show of Her Own"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MSNBC <a href=\"http:\/\/tvdecoder.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/08\/19\/rachel-maddow-to-replace-dan-abrams-on-msnbc\/\" target=\"_blank\">does the right thing<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Just in time for the closing rush of the presidential election, MSNBC is shaking up its prime-time programming lineup, removing the long-time host \u2013- and one-time general manager of the network \u2014 Dan Abrams from his 9 p.m. program and replacing him with Rachel Maddow, who has emerged as a favored political commentator for the all-news cable channel.<\/p>\n<p>The moves, which were confirmed by MSNBC executives Tuesday, are expected to be finalized by Wednesday, with Mr. Abrams\u2019s last program on Thursday. After MSNBC\u2019s extensive coverage of the two political conventions during the next two weeks, Ms. Maddow will begin her program on Sept. 8.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>About time. Maddow&#8217;s deserved a show for too long; getting rid of Abrams is a bonus. Indeed, I think MSNBCs karmic debt for continuing to employ Chris Matthews is almost &#8212; almost &#8212; balanced.<\/p>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oliverwillis.com\/2008\/08\/19\/rachel-maddow-gets-msnbc-show\/\" target=\"_blank\">ODub<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSNBC does the right thing: Just in time for the closing rush of the presidential election, MSNBC is shaking up its prime-time programming lineup, removing the long-time host \u2013- and one-time general manager of the network \u2014 Dan Abrams from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4685\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-criticism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}