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Related: MSNBC’s Ed Schultz Leaving Primetime For Weekends
NEW YORK – March 14, 2013 – Chris Hayes will host MSNBC’s 8 p.m. ET hour starting Monday, April 1. The announcement was made today by Phil Griffin, President of MSNBC.
“Chris has done an amazing job creating a franchise on weekend morning,” said Griffin. “He’s an extraordinary talent and has made a strong connection with our audience. This is an exciting time for MSNBC.”
“I am thrilled to be joining Rachel and Lawrence in primetime,” said Hayes. “I’ve absolutely loved hosting UP on the weekends and I’m looking forward to thinking through the news five nights a week.”
More information regarding the new 8 p.m. program will be available in the coming days.
Since 2011, Chris Hayes has hosted the weekend morning program “Up w/Chris Hayes” on MSNBC. He has also contributed to all major political events throughout the 2012 Presidential election and regularly served as guest host for “The Rachel Maddow Show” and “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell”. He continues to serve as editor-at-large for The Nation, a role he has held since 2007.
Hayes’ first book, “Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy,” which is about the crisis of authority in American life, was published in June 2012. He has written on a wide variety of political and social issues and his work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Time, The Nation, The American Prospect, The New Republic, The Washington Monthly, The Guardian, and The Chicago Reader. He is a former Fellow at Harvard University’s Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics, a Bernard Schwartz Fellow at the New America Foundation and was a Schumann Center Writing Fellow at In These Times.
He is a graduate of Brown University with a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy. Follow Chris on twitter @chrislhayes.
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Love Chris Hayes and his smarts. Thrilled it’s not the boring Ezra Klein!
Really?! I’ve always thought there’s no daylight between them, or anybody else on MSNBC for that matter.
And I’m a Democrat.
Truth is you should never watch more than 15 minutes of this stuff. I’m amazed that anyone tunes in for an entire hour. For what? Some whiny outraged pundit that’s always screaming about a sky that isn’t falling. Thanks to FoxNews, I learned back in the 90′s these clowns are a waste of time.
While I nominally am amused by the man, I’ve got to say – he must be very well connected.
Hayes only has a BA in Philosophy? And from this he became a fellow at all these prestigious institutions, nabbed a big time publishing deal, was published in some of the most widely read magazines, and developed his own show on a major cable news network without even the slightest academic emphasis on political science?
Well, I guess that’s America for you!
While I am nominally amused by your comment, it’s primarily just a whole bunch of silly. Chris Hayes doesn’t need a PhD to prove he’s qualified to carry on an intelligent conversation about important topics of the day. Nobody does.
Yes, “that’s America for you!” We must have several degrees and go into massive debt in order to be considered knowledgeable.
I guess that’s America for you!
Well, you must admit that a resume like that makes him vastly overqualified for his job compared to, say, Sarah Palin or Paul Ryan. Or George Will, Herman Cain, Erick Erickson, etc…
I know Chris Hayes personally, and I can attest that most everyone else we knew at Brown was better connected, including myself. And none have his success.
Any connections he made, Chris made on his own through intelligence and pure grit while reporting politics, originally in Chicago and then moving to DC. If you’d done even the scantest research before whining about someone else’s success, and you’d find that Chris wrote some enormously influential essays in the wake of the 2004 that pretty much outlines the progressive platform that the DNC (and the Obama camp) used to propel them to victory.
Such an entitled and pathetic take on someone else’s good fortune.
Obviously, you’ve never seen his show. Chris Hayes is prob the smartest, most informed guy on tv. Maddow is the only one who matches or tops him.
An excellent choice. His intellectual capacity is stimulating, as are those of his guests on his weekend early-morning jolt, of whatever political persuasion they might be.
So, is Hayes going to be working 7 days a week; or will the entire schedule be moved up, with Melissa Harris-Perry airing 8-10a; or will a newcomer arrive? If so, let it be Joy Reid.
Isn’t this the guy who said he was “uncomfortable” with our soldiers being called heroes?
Way to take that out of context. The point you’re trying to make is the exact opposite point he was making.
Chris should have explained his concept plainly, so it would not have room to be misconstrued.
That’s true. So let’s be accurate. What he said was that SOME of America’s fallen soldiers are worthy of the designation “hero”… while others are not. And he decided to bring up the less-than-heroic qualities of SOME of America’s fallen soldiers on, of all days, Memorial Day.
And good for Chris Hayes!
What an asshat.
I would have been okay with Chris Hayes getting a new slot before I heard him try to paraphrase Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and doing his best to wipe out every bit of her intelligence, professional achievements and dignity by putting the words: “y’all are racist, why you up in my grill?” It was on the March 1st episode of Now with Alex Wagner in a segment on the Civil Rights Act. It kind of peeled back the curtain for me to see that Fox news side of Chris Hayes.
You’re right. You don’t need to paraphrase Sotomayor to make her look bad. Direct quotations more than suffice.
GREAT choice. When everyone was predicting Ezra Klein for the slot yesterday, I was predicting a move of Chris to weeknights, and Ezra into Chris’ old slot (which would be a logical next step). Ezra’s good and likeable and super-smart, but he’s still a little green with the actual hosting, whereas I think Chris Hayes is ready.
Overall sounds like a good lineup change. I have thought that Ed needs more time to develop story lines on issues. Have enjoyed Chris, but concerned he may not have the block of time to fully develop his unique approach to involved issues. MSNBC has really done a great public service in their line up selections with the information and issue orientation and approach to diversity.
One complaint, Morning Joe Scarborough needs to go. He lacks substance in all aspects with the exception of self-promotion and rudeness. Being a political has been does not confer being qualified or even relevant to present yourself as an authority. This was very well demonstrated in his lame attempt to discuss economics with Mr. Krugman on the Charlie Rose Show.
In theory, I love Ed Schultz, but always found him a bit bombastic.
I too will miss the great conversations that Chris had on Sunday mornings, but I am hopeful that he will be able to translate that dynamic into primetime.
It would be amazing for Joy Reid to get that Saturday morning time slot. She is one of my favorites – always able to condense her argument down and articulate it in an understandable way. Another of my favorites is Ari Melber. I don’t know why he isn’t mentioned more often.
My gf and I play a game with his and Rachael Ray’s show. What we do is turn them on no matter who the guest is, now matter what the topic is, these two hosts are always talking. They never stfu.
So, on the weekends you watch Chris Hayes on MSNBC for fun, and during the week you watch Rachel Ray on the Cooking Channel for fun. Perhaps you and your gf should consider getting a life.
This gut is unbearable. The whole msnbc line-up is unbearable and i’m a liberal. Maddow is so damn annoying and O’donnell is just so full of himself and just not interesting. Now Hayes in prime. Unless there is a Presidential election, these people are unwatchable and even then it’s hard.
Well, it’s good than no one is forcing to watch these “unbearable” people. Stop watching and giving them your support.
Do you think MSNBC issues those thick-framed coffeeshop glasses to new hires along with their company IDs?
I could not stand Ed Schultz. But just the same, pushing him aside sends a message that MSNBC is uninterested in old-school Democrats, union people, working class folks. I would not want that to begin affecting the Democratic Party itself. The hipster demo may be enough for MSNBC, but it’s not enough for the party.
So many of you are missing the basic facts about cable news.
Fact #1: That sh!t will rot your brain.
Fact #2: Cable news channels are not influential. Just look at their numbers.
Fact #3: All of the cable news talking heads are political operatives. They are not journalists. If you can’t or don’t wish to absorb more than the party line and talking points, you are cable news’ primary audience.
On Sundays MSNBC tv lineup is horrid, with all of those prison stories. It will be a welcome relief to hear Ed Schultz. Also last year Ed Schultz took time off ot be with his wife who is battling cancer, I wonder if he needed the down time to be with her.
Hey, did anybody else catch that recent MSNBC segment about racism in America? Was I the only one who saw it? Fascinating stuff. Apparently it’s more prevalent than ever!!!
I see I touched a nerve with my previous Hayes comment.
The fact is that being capable of having an intelligent conversation or simply put being “knowledgeable” should not mean that one has an automatic ability to analyze, comprehend, and interpret complex socio-economic and political events on A MAJOR TV NETWORK. Hayes does not have a journalism degree nor political science background. Does this mean he is unable to have a conversation about politics? No.
But it is odd how an individual such as Hayes (and many other in the media) have little to no significant political expertise but just talk their head off. No, you don’t need to go into debt to be “knowledgeable” but shouldn’t the media be held to a higher standard? Shouldn’t those who are in journalism and those who discuss events have some sort of academic training rather than just writing some nice policy points in an essay. It is pathetic.
That is why this country, whether you like it or not, is among the LEAST INFORMED IN THE DEVELOPED WORLD. And to those so-called “liberals” – stop watching a channel that just defends the interests of the Democratic Party. You are no different from the fools at Fox News and the GOP. Put ideas and ideals ahead of party and stop supporting a group of poliical leaders and media whores who condone DRONES, EXTRAJUDICIAL ASSASSINATIONS, WALL STREET BAILOUTS, AND CORPORATE INFLUENCE OVER GOVERNMENT.
Do tell us your Truthiness, what “higher standard” are you holding the media to. Please edify the rest of us mortals.
Truth, I don’t know anything about Chris Hayes and I probably diagree with him on just about everything. But based on your post I know a LOT about you.
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