It is time for Jonathan Capehart and Tiffany Cross to permanently fill the host seat on MSNBC’s ‘AM Joy’

I love this show and have been watching this time slot since the Melissa Harris Perry days when I was introduced to the show by then blogger Pam Spaulding. It has been my go-to since then and I can say with absolute confidence that I am a better human being, a better blogger, and better citizen because of the collective work of Harris-Perry and Joy Reid.

Joy was promoted to a weekday evening slot in the later summer months of 2020, the 7 PM “The Reid Out’ that my partner and I now regularly watch. We actually changed our evening routines to watch it, we stopped watching the CBS Evening News at 7 PM and began watching the NBC Evening News at 6:30 so we’d be able to watch Joy’s show. We watch a lot of news around here, including two hours of local CBS/KDKA programming.

So the decision to move Joy to this slot also brought us over to Lester Holt on NBC regularly. win/win. You probably have zero interest in our news viewing schedule choices, but it is good to remind folks that some folks still watch the news.

MSNBC decided to use a rotating array of guest hosts to fill this program under the title of AM Joy. It has been very interesting seeing how the assorted guest hosts have tackled the legacy of this time slot in this…