Posted on 03/19/2018 9:16:16 AM PDT by Kaslin
Prominent on-air news and opinion hosts at Fox News are going at it tooth and nail, as ailing 86-year-old Rupert Murdoch moves to hand the reins of the network to his liberal son Lachlan. In early February, I got wind of an internal war bubbling below the surface at Fox News. The combatants included several prominent on-air personalities, and there were growing signs that they were gearing up to engage in a serious battle with one another. The conflict pitted representatives of the daytime hard news department against several stars who are faces of the channel during prime time, when opinion-themed shows dominate. Like many Americans in the workplace, beliefs in different opposing ideologies were pushing these people apart. Adding fuel to the fire in the highly competitive hothouse environment of cable television news were jealousy and resentment.
Finally, this past week, the battle went public. It involved three top Fox News personalities: Shepard Smith, Sean Hannity, and Laura Ingraham.
Opening skirmishes in this long simmering conflict began last year, when veteran left-of-center Fox News hosts Shepard Smith and Chris Wallace were the first on-air talent to publicly throw down the gauntlet. Both of them are highly valued and well paid linchpins of the hard news side of the Fox News Channel. Last year, Shepard Smith, 54, the channel's lead news anchor and host of the 3 P.M. E.T. hour-long news show Shepard Smith Reporting, outed himself as a critic of President Donald Trump. Also in his sights were other prominent Fox News personnel who had defended Trump, including the channel's senior judicial analyst, former judge Andrew Napolitano.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
My guess is that Sheepturd Smith hits like a girl.
I believe there is a good opportunity for someone who wants to start a conservative network.
If I had a Conservative network or publication and my progeny were Communist scum, I’d sell or bequeath it to someone of like mind before the kids destroyed it.
Try One American News.
If he hits with his purse, watch out.
Ha ha ha ha. . .SHEEP TURD!!. . .love it. . .
All the world needs is another leftist news outlet.
Shep got in a slap fight with someone did he?
yes fire them and hire someone else Tv talent is made not born.
How many have been killed and wounded so far?
“Fox News cannot confirm Judge Napolitano’s commentary. Fox News knows of no evidence of any kind that the now-president of the United States was surveilled at any time, in any way.”
He was wrong. Has the Sheepster made an on-air apology to Judge Nap?
FNC can go with Wall-ass and Queen Shep, or go with its viewing audience. It can’t have both.
As a news anchor, he's got no business being a "critic" of anyone.
I like watching Laura Ingraham but Tucker Carlson just doesn’t have it.
He brings on the lib nutbags but usually seems unprepared and instead of showing them up with backup information he gets whiny.
Want a good show? Replace Carson with Mark Stein.
Never watch Faux News! One America News all the way...
“Shepard Smith Reporting, outed himself as a critic of President Donald Trump”
Shocking! Who would have guessed that?
When Fox News, the national cable channel took five years to get on all the cable networks it was twenty years ago and Clinton impeachment was underway.
The leftist media empires will never let OAN get full traction. Its always going to be a very fringe coverage of the market.
I don’t regard Shepard Smith as the epitome of “hard news.” Somehow, it always ends up being about him.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.