Serious question: does FOX have any actual journalists or reporters? I know they have

[Atticus]

"personalities" and "commentators" and "anslysts" and "consultants", but do they do anything more than mouth their own biased opinions about news that resulted from the observation and digging of journalists with other media houses?

Are they just bloated parasites or do they have a crew of reporters that they keep hidden?

[Hekate]

1. I think they have one (1) that people here periodically mention....

Can’t remember his name, though.

[tblue37]

3. Chris Wallace.

[Pobeka]

5. I believe you mean Chris, Mike's son?

[tblue37]

6. Yes, of course. I'll fix it.

[Just_Vote_Dem]

2. Bloated Parasitic Ponderous Propagandists

And screw Agnew too!

[Azathoth]

4. They have field correspondents and I believe network affiliate reporters

Most of whom are, to one degree or another, actual journalists.

But I can't think of anyone there who's salaried and in-studio that does actual journalism.

[joetheman]

7. Yes, they did but he left. nt

[zipplewrath]

8. Yabbut

Depending upon how one counts, they have alot. However, how many shows, and how much airtime is given over to such things? Not much, especially after 7:00. FWIW, CNN isn't all that much different. The difference really is that they often provide their journalists to the opinion shows, specifically to discuss factual information to set up the discussions.

[Midnight Writer]

9. I can't think of one major story, or scoop, that they have been first to break.

They are a shoestring operation. It is cheaper to thumb through the Washington Post and make snarky remarks than to actually scuff your shoes looking for stories.

They are modeled after talk radio.

[crickets]

10. You couldn't really tell, but they did at one time. FOX recently fired most of them.

Fox News Lobotomizes Its 'Brain Room,' Cuts Fact-Based Journalism - Sep. 29, 2020

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214154887
https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-lobotomizes-its-brain-room-cuts-fact-based-journalism

Fox News’ PR department used anodyne corporate-speak to characterize the job losses, namely “restructuring various divisions in order to position all of our businesses for ongoing success.” But the layoffs, outside of the hair and makeup department, cut most deeply into the channel’s straight-news operations at Fox News Digital and elsewhere, according to insiders, while protecting the ratings-heavy, revenue-generating domains of Fox & Friends in the morning, and of Trump cheerleaders Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, and Laura Ingraham in primetime. [snip]

A current Fox News employee—who, like others who spoke to The Daily Beast, asked not to be further identified for fear of retaliation—placed blame on Porter Berry, a former longtime Hannity producer who is Fox News Digital’s editor-in-chief, and Berry’s second-in-command Stefanie Wheeler Choi, a former communications director for hard-right Tennessee politician Marsha Blackburn, for much of the carnage that has concentrated on straight-news reporters and photojournalists. Berry and Choi had a large hand in recommending who would be laid off, this current Fox News staffer said.

Separately, Brain Room staffers were let go, this person said, “because they help fuel journalism and fact-based reporting and Porter and Stefanie are not interested in facts. They are obsessed with pitching ‘on-brand’ stories that include Blue Lives Matter, anything antifa-related, anyone who has suffered during BLM protests that can put the protestors in a negative light, anything that threatens Christianity, and anyone who is a Trump supporter who has somehow been wronged.” [snip]

A second Fox News employee said it’s widely known among staffers at the channel that top executives have “long been unsupportive of real, unbiased reporting. They do not see themselves as a real news operation in the sense that people are doing original work, trying to break stories and get to the bottom of things, wherever the chips fall. They are first and foremost a collector of other outlets’ reports and rewriting, and writing stories about what guests say on their most highly rated shows.”