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Daily Beast Suspends Joy Reid Column Over 'Serious' Accusations About Past Homophobic Blog PostsWere going to hit pause on Reids columns, says Daily Beasts Noah Shachtman in a company-wide email
Jon Levine | April 26, 2018 @ 6:55 AM Last Updated: April 26, 2018 @ 7:00 AM
The Daily Beast will suspend future columns from Joy Reid due to the fallout over comments she made on an old blog a decade ago, the websites executive editor Noah Shachtman told staff in an internal memo on Wednesday.
Were going to hit pause on Reids columns, said Shachtman in an email reviewed by TheWrap. As youre well aware, support for LGBTQ rights and respect for human dignity are core to Daily Beast. So were taking seriously the new allegations that one of our columnists, Joy Reid, previously wrote homophobic blog posts during her stint as a radio host.
Though she apologized for content on her old blog The Reid Report back in December, the MSNBC host has denied the latest revelations reported by Mediaite, saying that her the long defunct website was hacked. Shachtman told Beast employees that the company was investigating and would produce their own story on the issue.
Things continued to spiral for Reid and MSNBC over the story, which has now moved beyond the revelations reported by Mediaite to whether Reid was being honest about claims of hacking. On Wednesday evening, Reids lawyer John H. Reichman told TheWrap that the FBI has opened an investigation into the issue.
https://www.thewrap.com/daily-beast-suspends-joy-reid-column-were-going-to-hit-pause/
underthematrix
(5,811 posts)riversedge
(70,272 posts)commented on this issue. so painful to see what is happening.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)The GOP has Joy Reid in it's damn sights!
riversedge
(70,272 posts)investigations. Just saying.
......Things continued to spiral for Reid and MSNBC over the story, which has now moved beyond the revelations reported by Mediaite to whether Reid was being honest about claims of hacking. On Wednesday evening, Reids lawyer John H. Reichman told TheWrap that the FBI has opened an investigation into the issue.
We have received confirmation the FBI has opened an investigation into potential criminal activities surrounding several online accounts, including personal email and blog accounts, belonging to Joy-Ann Reid, he said. Our own investigation and monitoring of the situation will continue in parallel, and we are cooperating with law enforcement as their investigation proceeds.
Reids claims of hacking have been met with skepticism by reporters across the political spectrum and from the Internet Archive, whose Wayback Machine is the source of the incriminating material on Reid. In his own statement, Chris Butler, the director of open libraries at the Internet Archive, said they found no evidence to substantiate Reids claims.
dsc
(52,166 posts)They won't be commenting to us about it.
leftofcool
(19,460 posts)tazkcmo
(7,300 posts)Seems like they need a time out.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)We have a fucking republican dictatorship destroying this country 24/7 and they are investigating Joy Reid?
Who the fuck is paying for that Daily Beast??????????????
bigtree
(86,005 posts)revmclaren
(2,528 posts)Going to pass the word to my friends and family to do the same.
only! 2018 - 2020
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)If they want to be Breitbart Lite and help elect !@#$%republicans, they can go to HELL!
SunSeeker
(51,646 posts)What's with their "fire first, confirn allegations later" standard?
And even when confirmed, will their new lifelong purity test be applied to every contributor? So if someone, for example, wrote a sexist article on rape in the 1970s, would they be blocked from writing in the Daily Beast?
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)would get a pass from The Daily Caller...er...Beast.
MFM008
(19,818 posts)For an investigation to finish
before cutting someone out.
AL FRANKEN.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Why do we fall for this fu**ing GOP HS every damn time!!!!!!!!!!
I guess being a damn fool and a SUCKER is not limited to idiot deplorables alone!
I'd like to think democrats are smarter than that.
I'd like to but....Al Franken and Joy Reid!
EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)I'm sure.
lunamagica
(9,967 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Can MSNBC be far behind?