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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,704 posts)
Sat Mar 31, 2018, 12:25 PM Mar 2018

"Why I left Fox News."




You could measure the decline of Fox News by the drop in the quality of guests waiting in the green room. A year and a half ago, you might have heard George Will discussing policy with a senator while a former Cabinet member listened in. Today, you would meet a Republican commissar with a steakhouse waistline and an eager young woman wearing too little fabric and too much makeup, immersed in memorizing her talking points.

This wasn’t a case of the rats leaving a sinking ship. The best sailors were driven overboard by the rodents.

As I wrote in an internal Fox memo, leaked and widely disseminated, I declined to renew my contract as Fox News’s strategic analyst because of the network’s propagandizing for the Trump administration. Today’s Fox prime-time lineup preaches paranoia, attacking processes and institutions vital to our republic and challenging the rule of law.

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"Why I left Fox News." (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2018 OP
Sounds a lot like nonsense Major Nikon Mar 2018 #1
Exactly LiberalLovinLug Mar 2018 #2

Major Nikon

(36,814 posts)
1. Sounds a lot like nonsense
Sat Mar 31, 2018, 12:30 PM
Mar 2018

He makes it sound as if Fox used to be the gold standard of journalistic integrity and high minded discussion, but has gone downhill. The reality is they have always been a cesspool filled to overflowing with the lowest common denominator. If anything with the exit of BillO and Ailes they are better now than they ever have been.

LiberalLovinLug

(14,153 posts)
2. Exactly
Sat Mar 31, 2018, 12:41 PM
Mar 2018

His lamentations about what used to be. George Will would be interviewing a tea party Republican Senator with a former Congress person that is even more extreme and got defeated by a more moderate Republican or a Democrat. All bitching about Democrats for an hour.

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