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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFox News staff warns of an 'exodus' as consequence of Shep Smith resignation
Raw StoryEven Fox host Neil Cavuto was floored as his show began immediately after Smiths announcement. He struggled to find the words to describe the shock and touted Smiths kindness and compassion for those in the newsroom.
Who can fill that role? another Fox employee asked.
Another Fox News employee said, staffers were openly weeping after Smith made the announcement. The person explained that some were here and have stayed here solely for Smith.
Dont be surprised if theres an exodus, the staffer told CNN. Fox hasnt just lost Shep today.
Garrett78
(10,721 posts)Apparently nobody who is currently at Fox.
Midnight Writer
(21,795 posts)Takket
(21,625 posts)they want to be a propaganda organization, not a media outlet
NNadir
(33,544 posts)He was there for 23 years apparently. If he spent 23 years there, he almost certain engaged in propaganda. Surely, this makes him less than heroic.
Of course, I really can't say. I don't watch Nazi propaganda on TV, so I'm not really all that familiar with FOX News except by osmosis or am somewhere where I can't escape, at which time I see only that, propaganda.
The only time I saw FOX News regularly was when I was in my Dr.s office. I put up with that Dr. for a little bit, for convenience, but I changed doctors as a result of having to watch that insane crap.
JeaneRaye
(402 posts)you are not that familiar with FOX News, so maybe you shouldn't be spouting off an opinion about something you admit to knowing nothing about. Shep Smith was probably the ONLY person over at FOX who regularly told the truth. I frequently wondered why he stayed there, but I told myself that at least the FOX viewers were getting a dose of the truth, even if Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham and Jeanine Pierro were regularly spouting bullshit.
NNadir
(33,544 posts)...of it than was forced down my throat when trapped.
I do note however, that most television anchors are not really reporters; they're just people reading scripts.
Maybe he was put there to be the "fair and balanced" guy.
I don't know the names of any of their people except the pig Bill O'Reilly how used to work there, because a friend of mine knew him in college, where he was widely considered an asshole (Marist), and that Hannity guy since he comes at you through osmosis.
But no, I don't watch FOX news any more than I read White Supremacy or Marxist Leninist newspapers.
I'm not actually a television kind of guy.
In general, I think that there is no legitimate purpose for being intrinsically familiar with propaganda.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)And I agree with her and you:
https://first-draft.com/2019/10/13/the-leopard-finally-ate-shep-smiths-face/
Lets review some of things Fox and its creatures engaged in during Sheps principled time there, which did not outrage him enough to quit his job.
The whole thing: read it.
NNadir
(33,544 posts)..."least slutty person at Caligula's last orgy."
All he has done is removed (that is, IF he did indeed, resign) a piece of their "we're a real news organization," roof thatching.
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)Foxs effectiveness as propaganda DEPENDS on being able to deny that they are propaganda and say they have some news.
So they need some props they can say are real journalists. Shep has just been a tool of Rupert Murdoch this whole time.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)an inappropriate remark Carlson had made and Shep called him out on it: "Repugnant." The following day he was told NOT to criticize Carlson on the air. Then William Barr met with Rupert Murdoch and the next day, Smith announced his resignation.
So, they lost Shep Smith because of Carlson ? Not much of a deal if you ask me.
Besides, I thought Murdoch had turned the operations over to his sons. Just another withered, impotent white fossil . . .
CentralMass
(15,265 posts)rurallib
(62,448 posts)Who's going to fill Smith's role? That "role" goes away with Shep Smith. No more real news on Fox propaganda network.
irisblue
(33,023 posts)democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Seems to be a lot of THAT going around lately. Anything and anyone that comes in contact with drumpf is ultimately destroyed.
hibbing
(10,109 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,319 posts)and find they can't get hired as a weatherman in Bakersfield.
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)Well yeah that, and their paycheck !
uponit7771
(90,364 posts)... of America.
gab13by13
(21,402 posts)yortsed snacilbuper
(7,939 posts)move her into that slot
Auggie
(31,186 posts)wishstar
(5,271 posts)His ratings were much lower than their propagandists since he was moved from early evening to 3 pm. As far as I could tell, none of my Trumper Fox watching relatives and acquaintances ever watched his show. He was supposed to be also covering breaking news at other times besides his 3 pm show, but Fox seldom let him cover truly breaking news if it reflected poorly on Trump, instead focusing viewers' attention away to diversions.