Rachel Maddow Seriously Considers Leaving MSNBC
Whaaaat? I live to watch her 9:00 show!(Daily Beast) Rachel Maddow has been MSNBC’s most high-profile on-air personality for more than a decade, long embodying the network’s liberal ethos and raking in an obsessive following for her nightly primetime broadcast.
But when MSNBC viewers tune in next year, she may not be there.
According to six people familiar with the situation, Maddow, 48, is seriously considering leaving the network when her contract ends early next year as negotiations drag on and the temptation to take her brand elsewhere or start her own lucrative media company has grown.
Insiders who spoke with The Daily Beast said while the star host has occasionally entertained other offers in the past, she has in recent months increasingly expressed openness to exiting when her deal ends, citing a desire to spend more time with her family and the toll of hosting a nightly program since 2008. Maddow seems unlikely to jump to a rival television news network. Instead, she has been intrigued by opportunities in the streaming and podcasting space, which would allow her more freedom, time for her personal life, and for other projects, people familiar with her thinking said.
The high-profile TV host has gotten aggressive in exploring her next career moves: In recent months, she left her longtime agents at Napoli Management Group, linking up with powerful talent agency Endeavor and its CEO Ari Emanuel and president Mark Shapiro, who are representing her in contract negotiations with NBCUniversal.
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After the Fukushima nuclear reactors story broke in 2011, she was covering it every night and, indeed, devoting most of her broadcast to it. Then one night, nothing. It was as if a switch had been flipped. It wasn't as if nothing regarding the disaster had happened that day; there was plenty of news about Fukushima. But she never covered the story again.
In the years that followed, she would very occasionally (less than once every couple of years) bring it up in passing, but only if it pertained to some other story she was covering. So it wasn't as if she'd forgotten about it.
I'm sure that the fact that the Fukushima reactors were made by GE, the parent company of MSNBC, had nothing to do with this. 
I've sometimes wondered what other stories also aren't being covered.
