You don't earn a daily slot on either side of corporate media if you're
not a consistent and effective shill for corporate interests – for the
privatization of public education, for US imperial interventions and war
crimes in Africa, South Asia and the Americas, for fracking, for
unfettered police spying, and for only attacking the bad things the
other party does. That's Joy Ann Reid to a T, and that's how you earn
those slots at Fox or MSNBC and that's how you keep them.
-- Bruce A. Dixon, "Another Black Face on MSNBC: Good News For Joy Ann Reid, Not So Much For The Rest of Us" (Black Agenda Report).