From The Hill: Krystal Ball: MSNBC never wanted Ed Schultz's working class audience
EDITOR'S NOTE: Krystal Ball, a co-host of Hill TV's Rising with Krystal and Buck show, lived in Louisville for a time. She will emcee the 23rd annual Mike Miller Marshall County Democratic Bean and Fish Dinner at Kentucky Dam State Resort Park Convention Center on Aug. 3, the night before the Fancy Farm picnic. Ball attended last year's dinner and picnic and plans to be at this year's picnic.
Despite its liberal reputation, MSNBC was not interested in the audience of the late Ed Schultz, according to former network host Krystal Ball.
"I find it really ironic that they took this incredibly pro-working class voice off the air right before the Trump era when obviously you had a lot of working class voters who didn't feel like they had a home in the Democratic party any more," Ball said during a Friday episode of "Rising," a new show she co-hosts for Hill.TV.
Schultz, who died on Thursday at the age of 64, hosted "The Ed Show" for several years on MSNBC beginning in 2009. His program was repeatedly shifted to different time slots by the news and talk channel.