Newsmax’s Greta Van Susteren rehashed her work at previous networks such as FOX News and MSNBC. The host responded on X when an account said journalism and MSNBC shouldn’t be in the same sentence.
Susteren worked for MSNBC for a few months in 2017 before the network let her go. Regardless of how others view the cable news channel, Susteren said that her program during her brief stint was strictly journalism.
“I will say this about my experience at [MSNBC] – my hour, with my staff, was journalism,” Van Susteren recently wrote on X. “And then they fired me. (And I hope people are not so dopey as to believe their post-firing statements to ‘their pals’ in the press about my ratings without first reading what NBC said about my ratings only two weeks before my firing (it said my ratings were up 93 percent over the show I had replaced in less than six months).”
Greta Van Susteren emphatically concluded the recap of her tenure at MSNBC by asserting that her show did not cause her dismissal.
“What happened in that two-week window?” Van Susteren added. “You and I both know… in the words of the [No. 2] person in the network who called me in that window, ‘You need to play ball.’ Silly me, I thought it was a news business and not a sporting organization.”
Eduardo Razo is the Assistant Content Editor for BNM, which includes writing daily news stories on the news media industry. He can be found on Twitter @eddierazo_ or you can reach him by email at eddie1991razo@gmail.com.
