Let's face it. How MSNBC presents its news is as important to the corporate bottom line as its policies. I watch MSNBC everyday - it's smart and leans left. But some of its tone is beginning to grate. I appreciate that Joy Reid has not been on for over the past week. Hope her absence is due to her search for more money. Let her go. Her shrill and exaggerated personality is jarring and not welcome at this time of audience high stress. Who needs the endless fawning "love" expressed by hopefully serious newsmen? Get serious.