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Melissa Harris-Perry’s Return To MSNBC Is Looking Less Likely By The Tweet

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This past Saturday, Melissa Harris-Perry stepped away from hosting her show on MSNBC. In an email that leaked on Friday, Harris-Perry wrote that she wasn’t going to work for a network that treated her show as “worthless” after it was repeatedly pre-empted for election coverage.

Since then and according to Vox, Harris-Perry has been in negotiations with MSNBC until 5 PM on Tuesday. Apparently, those negotiations didn’t go well, because Harris-Perry is now tweeting up a storm about how MSNBC has treated her.

Some of these tweets are defiantly celebratory:

She also put up a number of graphs about how her show brought diversity to cable news and political commentary:

And she expressed gratitude for getting to host the Melissa Harris-Perry show, and thanked her crew:

But she also put MSNBC on blast for how they treated her, and portrayed her:

This seems to be in response to to an MSNBC executive telling the Washington Post that Harris-Perry was “a brilliant, intelligent but challenging and unpredictable personality.” Harris-Perry seems to volley the “unpredictable” remark back at MSNBC in questioning how her email leaked to the New York Times in the first place.

Many fans have been tweeting their praise of Harris-Perry under the #Nerdland hashtag.

https://twitter.com/JillFilipovic/status/704014469932965889

As for Harris-Perry, she’s likely not coming back to MSNBC, but she promises to keep everyone guessing.

(via Vox & Washington Post)

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