MSNBC’s Ed Schultz will return to weekdays later this month after a brief hiatus as weekend host, signalling a reversal of fortunes for the bombastic television personality who has become a champion to union workers and blue-collar liberals.
Starting Aug. 26, “The Ed Show” will air weeknights in the 5 p.m. slot currently held by “Hardball” with Chris Matthews. “Hardball,” which airs live at 5 p.m. and runs again at 7 p.m., will now air exclusively in the latter time slot.
“Chris Matthews and the ‘Hardball’ team have been pulling double duty for years. This move will concentrate the ‘Hardball’ audience to one key time period and enhance the flow of our evening programming,” Griffin said in a statement. “Ed Schultz is a force of nature and an important voice to the MSNBC audience. I can’t wait to have him back on weeknights.”
Though Ed Schultz’s bombastic style isn’t for everyone, I rather enjoyed the perspective he brought to the issues, and it’ll be nice to have him back on weeknights on MSNBC.
It’s about time MSNBC wised up. Two hours of Tweety? The same show re-run only an hour later? That’s pulling “double-duty”? Matthews is ok when he’s on his meds, but more often than not, he makes me want to throw my shoe through the television.
And if you need a reminder, see this: http://mediamatters.org/research/2006/04/27/mission-accomplished-a-look-back-at-the-medias/135513
Thanks Zach, I cut the cable TV cord with Time Warner back in February.
IMHO, the threesome of Lawrence, Ed, and even Maddow “took turns” being “liberal.” On occasion each of the three could/would produce some great reporting. But, over the long haul, I saw way too much protection of Obama and the Democrats on issues where they were in lock step with the oligarchs. In the 2012 Presidential campaign, the only issue on which I saw any real daylight between Romney and Obama was voting rights. That’s an important issue, but once I trusted Nate Silver’s polling, that Wisconsin would fall for Obama, I voted for the green candidate, Jill Stein.
General Electric owns NBC/MSNBC so I don’t expect much to change. Hope I’m wrong.
I wish Wisconsin Dems had someone representing or leading us as “bombastic” as is Ed.