Bill Hemmer Joins FOX News Channel (formerly of CNN)

Fox News on-line ^ | Tuesday July 19th, 2005

[nutmeg]

Not crazy about Hemmer and wonder who will get the boot to make room for him. They seem to have a pretty full line-up as it is.

I admit I don't know much about Hemmer, but I'm suspicious of anyone coming from the Clintoon News Network. You're right about FNC's full line-up... who will get the boot? We can always HOPE it's Whorealdo, but I doubt it will be... ;-)

[GOPJ]

In languages alone they offer Latin, German, Spanish, French, Japanese and Russian.

I'm so envious. In Florida we're still working on getting kids to understand English. Latin's down the road, waaaaaaaaaay down the road.

[StarFan]

We can always HOPE it's Whorealdo, but I doubt it will be... ;-)

Unfortunately it won't be Whorealdo as he made it a big fanfare when he renewed his contract. I think we're stuck with him for another 2 years or more. Frankly as long as he's stuck in the 10:00 p.m. weekend timeslot, it's tolerable as hardly anyone watches.

[BigSkyFreeper]

According to another article in this morning's Miami Herald, he'll be doing the FOX News Live program at Noon ET.

Part of the article:

Hemmer says the philosophy at Fox is keep things moving, and he's in total agreement.

''I am of the firm belief that cable-news viewers are a click-fickle bunch,'' says Hemmer. ``Make them wait for what they want, they'll go find it on their own, somewhere else. They've got other choices, and other options, and you'd better keep them engaged.''

But what about those critics who say Fox News is just a lot of right-wing claptrap? Did Hemmer get a briefing before this morning's show about which Democrats to gore and which Republicans to praise?

''Oh, puh-leaze,'' he groans. ``It's never come up. It's never been an issue. And I think my record over the past 10 years makes it clear I'm not that kind of reporter.''