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MSNBC Host Joy Reid’s Ratings In Freefall After Blog ‘Hacking’ Controversy

Emily Zanotti

MSNBC Host Joy Reid has lost more than 20% of her audience in the weeks following her “blog hacking” scandal.

According to Mediaite, Reid’s show “AM Joy” has been in a ratings free-fall since mid-April, when investigative journalists discovered a cache of homophobic posts, buried on Reid’s former blog, “The Reid Report.” At first Reid appeared to acknowledge the posts, and even apologized for them, but quickly changed her story, and claimed an outside party — perhaps Russian hackers — had hacked into her old blog and placed the posts in a complicated effort to discredit her.

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