Fox's Shepard Smith Condemns Trump's "Belittling And Delegitimizing" Of CNN Journalist

[highplainsdem]

Source: Media Matters

SHEPARD SMITH (HOST): President-elect Trump today told CNN's Jim Acosta that his organization amounts to fake news. CNN's exclusive reporting on the Russian matter was separate, and distinctly different from the document dump executed by an online news property.

Though we at Fox News cannot confirm CNN's report, it is our observation that its correspondents followed journalistic standards, and that neither they nor any other journalist should be subjected to belittling and delegitimizing by the president-elect of the United States.


Read more: https://mediamatters.org/video/2017/01/11/foxs-shepard-smith-condemns-trump-s-belittling-and-delegitimizing-cnn-journalist/214982

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Video at the link.

[truthisfreedom]

1. Fox calls trump liar.

Freaky.

[DonCoquixote]

2. be careful

you know that after January 20, we will see the sort of purge that would've made Stalin cringe. It sure helps that Trump has inspiration and a loyal set of teachers, ranging from Steve Bannon, a.k.a. the 21st centuries Heimlich Himmler, to Rex Tillotson's personal friend in Moscow, Vladimir Rasputin. Why do you think that making Kelly made sure to get the hell out of Fox when she could, because she knew Roger Ailes was going to put her neck on the block as well as anyone else, I do mean anyone else the new regime is unhappy with.


Mr. Smith, you better hope there is a spot open at MSNBC.

[adigal]

16. Don't forget the blueprint Obama left him, too, going after journalists to try to get

whistleblowers. He was horrible in this respect also.

[JohnnyRingo]

3. CNN is just the first outlet to be shut out.

I'm sure every other news agency knows their time is coming at the first hint that damages Trump, including Fox. I can imagine a time when Trump ends the traditional daily press briefing.

[Leith]

4. Why Does Shep Smith Stay on Fox Propaganda Channel?

With all the others jumping ship lately, why doesn't he go? He is going to be lumped in with the other vermin if he doesn't go soon.

Or, maybe he just isn't as cool a person as I give him credit for being.

[Hortensis]

5. Fox defending journalistic standards, LOL.

It sounds like Fox, through Smith, is taking the defensive road, preparing for inevitable future incoming when Trump and his pack of attack hyenas are displeased.

[ananda]

6. I know, struck me the same way!

This is Fox calling Trump out? Whoa!

[cab67]

7. He's also returning a favor.

IIRC, early in the Obama administration, it appeared as though Fox was being cold-shouldered at press conferences. The other networks (including CNN) all said they'd have no part of any further press conferences unless assurances were made that Fox would be treated the same as the others.

[7962]

8. Thats pretty much how it happened. nt

[Hortensis]

11. Ah! Nothing like a common enemy... :)

[Sunlei]

21. that's because fox-lies has always been an arm of the republican party, & #1 fake news. birther?

[keithbvadu2]

9. Trump can put a bunch of Jeff Gannons in the Press Corps.

See how well it worked out for Dubya to put a loyal follower in the seats.

[erronis]

12. Oh, god - I forgot about that prick Guckert

The image of multiple Gannons/Guckerts all poised in the press seats is an image that I will remove with a hefty dose of single-malt.

We all know that the Trump Empire is build on sex. The Greeks weren't bad at it, nor the Romans, nor everyone else - just before the hordes that had *real* needs came to visit.

[Loge23]

10. The media should stick together

When der fuhrer bans one reporter, the entire room should have walked out. First they came for....

[Dorian Gray]

13. There are times

Shepard Smith stands up and surprises me. He did it after Katrina. And he's doing it now.

And I wouldn't be surprised if he's the next one out of fox.

[briv1016]

14. I give him a month, two at the most.

After he leaves there will literally not be a single person left on fox with any decency. Unless I'm forgetting someone?

[spiderpig]

17. I agree about SS and Katrina

I remember him standing on an overpass surrounded by flood refugees and begging "where is the help for these people???"

[question everything]

15. I think that even the Foxes are not sure how Trump will react

to various news stories and commentaries.

[Cha]

18. Wow.. but it is Shep.. who comes out occasionaly with

some real reporting from foxscrews.

Good on him

[renate]

19. if he goes to MSNBC I would be a lot happier about him than about Greta

This isn't the first time I have been pleasantly surprised by him.

I have never been (still haven't been) pleasantly surprised by Greta.

[Sunlei]

20. Obvious Mr. Trump didn't want to answer questions about HIS Campaigns connections to Russia.

Republicans fox TV adds to the spectacle. They're enablers. fox had trump 'call in interviews almost daily and they never asked him a legit question.