NEW: 15,000 MSNBC viewers (and counting) have signed our petition urging the network to save Mehdi Hasan’s shows. The pressure on MSNBC is mounting!

Just today, Washington Post columnist Perry Bacon Jr. published an op-ed saying: "The network should reverse its decision on Hasan."

Our petition, which launched last Thursday, was highlighted this weekend by The Nation, and endorsed by former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann, who urged his followers to sign. Olbermann joins Representative Maxwell Frost, who Tweeted on Thursday, "I just signed this petition and you should too!" This follows prominent coverage from the Washington Post and Politico last week.

The Nation called Mehdi Hasan's recent takedown of Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy "a reminder of just how powerful a television interview can be when the questioner is relentless in pursuit of the truth... the candidate, who sought to present himself as an outsider taking on the status quo, was exposed as just another ill-prepared and inconsistent political grandstander."

Sign the petition and help increase the pressure: MSNBC, we need MORE hosts and guests who challenge power and conventional wisdom -- not less. Keep Mehdi Hasan as a host of his own show.

Since Thursday, social media has been filled with posts from prominent media, cultural, and political leaders such as:

• Bipartisan congressional voices like former Republican Congressman Joe Walsh, and Reps. Frost, Pressley, Omar, and Khanna
• Major media voices like NYT’s Jonathan Swan, NYU Journalism Professor Jay Rosen, xxxxxx Editor-in-Chief Charlie Sykes
• Luke Skywalker Mark Hamill
• Former Obama speechwriter Tommy Vietor
• Former NAACP President Sherrilyn Ifill

TWITTER REACTIONS:

New York Times Reporter Jonathan Swan:

Former Republican Congressman Joe Walsh:

Representative Maxwell Frost:

Longtime NAACP President Sherrilyn Ifill:

Luke Skywalker Mark Hamill:

Obama Administration Spokesperson Tommy Vietor:

Representative Ro Khanna:

Representative Ayanna Pressley:

xxxxxx Editor In Chief Charlie Sykes:

Attorney General of Minnesota Keith Ellison:

NBC investigations reporter Ben Collins:

NYU Journalism Professor Jay Rosen:

Editor of Press Watch Dan Froomkin:

Washington Post Media Reporter Jeremy Barr:

Daily Beast Columnist Rotimi Adeoye:

Longtime media columnist Margaret Sullivan:

Washington Post columnist Greg Sargent:

Sign the petition: MSNBC, we need MORE hosts and guests who challenge power and conventional wisdom -- not less. Keep Mehdi Hasan as a host of his own show.

Thank you.

-- The PCCC Team

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