It’s official: David Shuster is in very bad odor at MSNBC. From Mediaite, quoting an email from Phil Griffin, Shuster’s boss, to a member of the public:

From: Griffin, Phil (NBC Universal)

Sent: Wed 4/07/10 11:16 PM

Sorry, but this is a business and I need team players. He was not moral, ethical or professional and that is not fair to the 500 people who work at msnbc.

Thanks for your note,

Phil

That’s probably it for our friend Dave, at least as far as his MSNBC career is concerned. His crime, reportedly, was taping a pilot for failing rival CNN, which would have brought him full circle on his tour through the cable-news jungles. After starting in the CNN Washington bureau, he moved on to Fox News, where he covered both the Clinton impeachment (Shuster had done some time himself in Little Rock, as a correspondent for KATV there, so he knew the territory) and the attacks of Sept. 11.

But then came the fateful bargain with MSNBC — (more…)

MSNBC analyst Craig “Yuk Yuk Yuk” Crawford has said sayonara to everybody’s favorite low-rated cable network, with a blast in the direction of the head leg-tingler-in-charge himself, Chris Matthews. Apparently the lunatic-asylum gig just wasn’t funny anymore for the jolliest commentator this side of Eugene Robinson. From Mediaite:

MSNBC political analyst Craig Crawford has left the network – in a very public way.

Writing on his blog at CQPolitics.com, Crawford says he has found the network “unrewarding for me,” – and expands on his reason for leaving in a comment to Mediaite.

Three months short of my current contract I sent the following to the boss, Phil Griffin: “Phil, Just wanted to give you the heads up that my situation with MSNBC has become so unrewarding for me that I’ve decided to move on. — Craig”

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