PGage, to Kevin M, Joe Hass, and Steve Timko, March 3rd: > > It appears Matthews did not warn anyone at MSNBC that this was his last > show, just announced it. Reports are he has been in negotiations to retire > for a few months now, and recent allegations and bad behavior accelerated > that. I suspect when it became clear they were not going to let him work to > at least the conventions he decided to just pack it in. > > I thought Kornacki did a good job, clearly off the cuff, though he get > dinged in some quarters for being too celebratory of CM. I have felt > Matthews has always been over hyped (long before Hardball). I don’t think > he is quite as horrible as some make him out to be now (in terms of his on > air performance, no knowledge of his creepiness/assault hx), but he clearly > exceeded his expiration date some years ago. > > Right before it happened, journalist Laura Bassett confided to *GQ* comments he'd made to her as he was getting makeup put on for a 2016 show.
https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/chris-matthews-hardball-inappropriate-remarks-gq-1203519185/ (link) On a *Vanity Fair* podcast Friday (24), he acknowledged Bassett was right. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/04/biden-advice-chris-matthewss-first-interview-since-hardball-exit (soft paywall) https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/inside-the-hive-vanity-fair-H2VuZOpArf-/ (podcast; also on the usual sites) B -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/afe333ee-cea0-484e-9678-7f3b84213c21%40googlegroups.com.
