Chris Hayes’s Work Diary: ‘My Life Is an Unceasing Festival of Impatience’

Storytelling is the thing that Chris does that we all love. Rachel I believe invented the idea of news as storytelling. I give Rachel credit from her days in radio. Chris, however does storytelling just as well. It is important to have storytellers in the media. They constantly help us connect seemingly disparate facts together, and make sense of what is happening in the insane world whirling around us endlessly. I am very happy that MSNBC has the best storytellers in the industry. They inform us as they teach us. Do this experiment if you don’t believe me. Spent sometime watching Chris and Rachel. Then, switch to Fox, in you can stomach. You will instantly see that Fox looks like a bunch of barking mad hyenas. Me. Give me Chris and Rachel or give me death. I love you guys.

Certainly a bright guy but overly emotionally invested in seeing Trump's miserable downfall. Not a Murrow for sure. Opinion makers rarely make great news reporters.

I too record Chris Hayes show, I have loved his style and truth since he first started on MSNBC as a guest reporter. His views are very like mine and my husbands. My husband passed two years ago but I still watch Chris and discuss his show with my husband whose spirit is always in the room with me. Old habits never die, especially good ones.

My husband and and I live on California, so we record your show every week day. Most of our news consumption comes from online sites like the NYT and WaPo in the a.m., so we usually end the day watching your show. We like your intelligent, concise interviews and commentary. I also like that you occasionally visit other cities for some great in-depth reporting. (And yes, I grew up in the Chicago area so love it when your report from there.) Your diary sounds hectic and intense. I liked the insight into your life. So as a 77 year old woman I'd like to offer some advice. I like to think of myself as wise. Do not fast. Eat a sensible diet and you won't need to fast. Try to integrate Yoga into your workouts. It can have a relaxing effect while strengthening and stretching your body. The rest seems to be just part of the territory of news in our country today. My husband was a news editor before he retired. Now he does it part time for a small, local newspaper. He can't quit it. The wife of a colleague of his and I talked about how we were on our own if there was a major crisis. So I think this kind of intensity you describe is "in your blood". I like that you take time for your family. Do keep it up or even increase it. You will never be sorry. It sounds like you have a great wife. Cherish her. And keep up the good work on "All In".

Here's a tidbit I thought interesting about Chris Hayes.. He's boys with Desus from Desus & Mero! He was a guest on their show once, and I found out they went to high school together. It was a cool interview. Don't remember what his rainbow said.

It sounds pretty much like everybody's life but the content is different. Whether the content is better or not is hard to say. I think there are other people in the same field and other fields doing the same thing and having the same feelings, but at least Mr. Hayes seems to be aimed at the "good," the morally correct, the right thing to do. As a result, I find him compelling and worth hearing. I liked his "UP" show the best. It was early and filled with very thoughtful contributors, some of whom I miss very much. It was more like a magazine, rather than the rapid fire of hot button issues of the day, but when he first did the "separation of children at the border" story on "All In," he reached for the moon and touched it, as far as I am concerned. He was spot on in his reporting, and it was important. He was the first on it, and I am very thankful for having had the ability to stay up that late and listen to him. His more recent show with Michael Moore on Flint was another unbelievably over powering story. How anyone could watch that show and not come away with the most sickening feeling about our current state of being in our society is simply beyond me. Maybe he's not Edward R. Murrow yet, but he will be some day. He's smart and really cares. It comes through in everything he does. He's in a bit of a rush, though, to do it, and probably should slow down a little bit.

"All-in" is my first choice among all cable news programs. Chris Hayes is remarkably intelligent with quick-wit and the ability to hit the bulls-eye with tactful observations and questions of his guests and viewers like myself. I'll keep on watching - although I'd like to see the rhetoric and bashing of GOP/Trump toned down. The characterizations can be "tabloidal" at times. Just the facts presented in clear and concise deliveries via Chris' acute style is sufficient and satisfying for me

I listen to All In every morning while working out at the downtown Y. Chris is the best!

Chris, your MSNBC show and other news analysis events, and town hall meeting, have been fantastic. Please don't burn up.

My time is not wasted when watching Chris Hayes. Love the show. Thank you.

I enjoy Chris's show very much and it's they only show I watch everyday. He is knowledgeable, balanced, and honest. All good traits of a true journalist.

I used to be a big fan of "Up," which often seemed like a grad school seminar in politics. I watched "All In" for a while, but have mostly stopped--like other shows on MSNBC, it has largely devolved into panel discussions involving Hayes and three Democratic-leaning former federal prosecutors, sitting around saying things like "only Mueller knows what Mueller knows," and agreeing with one another.

Enjoy listening to him and watch him on You Tube since I do not have cable TV. For the most part, Chris Hayes is one of the better shows on MSNBC. MSNBC is one of the shows I am glued to for the round table discussions. It is difficult to expect unbiased reporting with our present WH Administration. His professionalism, his upbeat attitude and questioning of the "facts"--- all make for a great show. Interesting read here. MSNBC has probably the best news shows of any inclusive of Rachel Maddow, and Ari Melber.

I found this diary very interesting. Hayes does a great job. I'd be interested in similar diaries for Hannity, Carlson, and/or Ingraham. I imagine their show planning is quite different...and doesn't involve any reading up on climate or history.

In America the only people who don't have to work hard every day are the children of the wealthy. Just be thankful you are not one of them, hard work builds character.

Chris Hayes' Up show was excellent, the smartest most substantive show on cable news. Such a contrast to his current show which is obsessed with Trump investigation minutiae to distract from Democrats being responsible themselves for Trump's win.

Great show, quick on your feet, wonderful conversations and follow up questions. Take care of yourself and decompress in nature once in a while. Sounds like you have a wonderful family. Wishing you continued success in all you do.

Great work by Mr. Hayes, but another example of how I wish it weren't always so demanding for a professional who is also a parent.

I watch you regularly and often wonder how night-time anchors survive the daily grind. Your brain seems fine to me, I think you are brilliant. But, I'm sure you do need more sleep, and maybe switch to tea-the caffeine is gentler and brain soothing, not brain jangling. Reading about the subway problems made me sad-so many people depend on them. Take care of yourself because the country needs anchors and journalists like you. Maybe a four day work week for everyone is the answer-I've thought so for a long time.

Chris Hayes is terrific. HIs broad view of politics together with the legal insights of Ari Melber make MSNBC worth following. But here are a few suggestions from a much older Bronx boy. Reduce your coffee input to no more than 4 cups/day. Cherish your family even more Read Alice Munro

'He fears missing bedtime for his three children, and worries about “the ungodly amount of caffeine” he consumes. Twitter, he says, “feels like smoking three packs a day.”' But I guess it's the money, notoriety and fame that makes the 24/7 suffering worth it.

We’re huge fans of you, your news hour and all your excellent guests. Throw in daily updates from the NY Times, an occasional, very occasional peak at the saner voices on Fox and we take comfort in our country’s future. Just. Thank you!

Loved Chris's work on Up. As for All In, it took some time for him to find his voice, and for a long time, I skipped it, but it is now my favorite MSNBC evening program. He is earnest, thoughtful and can acknowledge the weaknesses in a particular argument without losing focus on the valid points being made.

I used to see you speeding to work on your bike and occasionally coasting home after. You seemed in love with your life; but they were only glimpses. Now it seems that less may actually be more. You're a great reporter and anchor, using your grasp of philosophy to help us make sense of our chaos. The public needs minds like yours these days, so maybe cut down a bit on the caffeine, do a few more pushups and get out on that bike.

I don't get to watch often but will once in a while. I enjoy the style and content. That's a hard life. My dad worked nights. It was ultimately hard on the family. I pretty much knew that is what you folks were up to.

Here goes........ During the late nineties and run-up and follow-up to the 'Millenium years' (I watched the Twin Towers burn and collapse from my apartment windows across the Hudson,) I lived and worked in NYC (midtown for years before a move to Long Beach and a morning run on ocean beach before catching a train to Manhattan)), white collar job, married to a professional journalist with an equally time consuming job, thus forced to maintain a daily schedule more like one of those moving sidewalks you can use at airports as you try and keep up, seemingly, with someone else's schedule more than your own........ And then it was over. Enjoy whatever you're doing at the time or try something else and simply get on with your life becaus , whether you like it or not, you're simply along for the ride, and by the way, with everyone else.

Hayes is dedicated to honesty as opposed to being a mere “news entertainer.” But, like many in his business, we wonder about their depth of understanding regarding the more complicated implications of their positions. For instance, he’s right in crediting the power of narrative, right or wrong, in shaping opinions and finally events. Does he take note then, that Sen McCaskill, in a recent interview, pointedly listed the Kavanaugh hearings debacle as the first reason for her defeat? Praising the courage of all of the Kavanough accusers, with distinguishing veracity, verbal attacks on 85 year old senators on elevators by roving bands of protesters and democrats posing as Spartacus or commanding men to “shut up,” without a peep of protest from commentator Hayes, handed the Buffoon and his minions a “narrative” they used to capture the Senate seats of McCaskill, Donnelly and Heidkamp to the GOP. Additionally, self righteous stay-at-home Bernie people in 2016 surely handed the White House to the Buffoon; that Hayes missed the boat on these developments isn’t complementary to the frenetic, non-deliberative life style depicted here.

Chris Hayes is articulate, well-read and has a compendium of knowledge that renders him one of the few journalists who is able to think on his feet and compose excellent followup questions during his interviews. His shows have supplied me with a deeper understanding of daily events, an understanding that I simply wouldn't get with the NY Times, Post, etc., alone. I will also be forever grateful for his being one of the few who treated the Sanders' campaign with the seriousness and dignity it deserved. Because Hayes had known Bernie for a lengthy period of time before the campaign, he was able to discern the authenticity of Sanders' beliefs, which Bernie had been consistent in fighting for during his many decades of public service. Hayes also understood that Clinton was an institutionalist and had undue faith in the system, while Bernie was an insurrectionist who well understood the system was corrupt and unfair and needed a massive overhaul. It's one of many reasons why Clinton did not galvanize the electorate and Sanders did. It's also one of the reasons the Democrats have adopted Sanders' views on health care, free college, campaign finance reform, etc, etc, etc. These views are no longer mocked. It's interesting to me that Hayes is a mere 39 years of age, as well. It provides me with faith in the future.