The procession of liberal anchors leaving major network news programs continues. Anchor Lester Holt announced he’s leaving his position as anchor at “NBC Nightly News.” Holt is the latest bold name anchor to leave a mainstream news program.
“A smile comes to my face when I think that with Nightly News, and “Dateline,” I have now anchored two of the most successful and iconic television news programs in broadcast history,” Holt wrote to staffers in an email obtained by Fox News Digital.
“As a 20-year-old radio reporter on the police beat chasing breaking news around San Francisco, I could never have imagined my career path would unfold in the way it has,” Holt added. “What an amazing ride.”
The news comes after MSNBC’s new president Rebecca Kutler cancelled Joy Reid’s low-rated nightly show, “The ReidOut.”
Reid lost half of her viewership in the days after President Donald Trump won the election on Nov. 5, 2024.
Reid’s final show will air this week.
Anchors Symone Sanders-Townsend, Alicia Melendez and Michael Steele will move from weekends to Reid’s 7 p.m. weekday slot.
Kutler also cancelled left-wing anchors Ayman Mohyeldin, Katie Phang and Jonathan Capehart, The New York Post reported on Monday.
Holt joined NBC News in 2000 and has also served as principal anchor of “Dateline NBC” since September 2011. He took over “NBC Nightly News” in 2015 following the ousting of his predecessor, Brian Williams, who was moved to MSNBC after being accused of lying about news events he claimed to have witnessed.
Like Reid, Holt showed similar bias towards President Donald Trump. The network shakeups foreshadow what is to come for other programs and blogs that are anti-Trump.
The financial funding for such shows was cut off when Trump shuttered USAID and fired all of its staff.
USAID reportedly paid tens of millions of dollars to fund left-wing news organizations and blogs, such as “The View” and Politico.com.
