Ronan Farrow, ratings minnow of the 1 p.m. hour, is losing his show. According to Mediaite, MSNBC is planning to cancel both Joy Ann Reid’s program and Farrow’s, which ran back to back. Cable news’s biggest fan of rumpled, no-doubt-extremely-expensive lavender shirts will be missed by faithful viewers everywhere, a few of which populate NR’s offices. I have no idea where I’ll go on cable for coverage of sanitation issues in Kibera.

Farrow’s grasp of the issues acquired as a State Department youth envoy (envoy to youth? envoy as youth?), unfortunately, never quite translated into on-air élan. In honor of Ronan’s upcoming last week, Andrew Johnson’s priceless montage of his rough first week on the air is worth a rewatch:

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Eliana’s piece from last year on Ronan’s privileged place in the TV firmament is also well worth reading.