Politics Shepard Smith, Fox News veteran anchor and frequent Trump target, abruptly resigns from the network

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  1. SlyPokerDog

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    Shepard Smith, one of Fox News’s leading anchors and a frequent target of President Trump, abruptly stepped down from the network on Friday, departing with little explanation after 23 years on the air.

    Smith, Fox News’s chief news anchor and host of its afternoon news program “Shepard Smith Reporting,” said the decision to leave was his own but gave no further reason for his resignation. He signed off with a brief statement, surprising even his colleagues. Fox News said Friday’s program would be Smith’s last.

    Smith has been at Fox News since its founding in 1996 and is one of its signature figures. He was among the first people hired by Fox News’s co-founder, the late Roger Ailes, for the network’s launch. His recent tenure, however, has been marked by conflict and criticism, not just from President Trump but from within the network itself.

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    In farewell remarks, Smith said, “Recently I asked the company to allow me to leave Fox News and begin a new chapter. After requesting that I stay, they graciously obliged. The opportunities afforded this guy from small-town Mississippi have been many. It’s been an honor and a privilege to report the news each day to our loyal audience in context and with perspective, without fear or favor.”

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    Smith’s criticism of Trump dates to the beginning of Trump’s presidency. After a presidential news conference in early 2017, for example, he called some of Trump’s responses “absolutely crazy.” He went on to defend rival news network CNN after Trump called its reporting “fake news.”

    “CNN’s reporting was not fake news,” Smith said at the time. “Its journalists follow the same standards to which other news organizations, including Fox News, adhere.”

    More recently, he urged Fox News viewers to read special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s report of his investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, strongly suggesting that it didn’t exonerate the president, as Trump and Attorney General William P. Barr had claimed. “Everyone in America should read” it, he said on the air. “Everyone.”


    Trump, in turn, has sometimes disparaged Smith by name on Twitter, viewing him as an apostate at a network he believes should be loyal to him.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/life...7953b8-ec61-11e9-85c0-85a098e47b37_story.html
     
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    I've always liked and respected Mr Smith. Sucks to see him go.
     
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    I agree, he was the one person on that network who was decent, which is probably why he is leaving
     
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    I always though of him as Ted Baxter.
     
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    Some people like news, some people like the entertainment division of Fox News. Stick with the entertainment division.
     
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    Really sorry to see him go. One of the few anchors without an agenda.
     
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    I dont know if I have ever heard of this guy but from the comments here, I’ll look for him where ever he lands.
     
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    Shepard Smith 'was sick of being attacked by his Fox News primetime colleagues' and asked for a way out of his $15million a year contract - while former staffer says it will be 'telling' to see who is chosen as his replacement
    • Shepard Smith is leaving Fox News after joining the network in 1996 he announced on Friday, just 18 months after signing a $15million deal
    • The sudden move comes after the anchor was both praised and derided over the past three years for his criticism of President Trump
    • Sources say he was 'sick' of being attacked by his primetime colleagues
    • Most recently, Smith was openly mocked by Tucker Carlson on his show for calling an attack on one their colleagues 'repugnant'
    • He's also been ridiculed by hosts Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham
    • When asked about Smith's departure on Friday by DailyMail.com, President Trump said: 'Is he leaving because of bad ratings? Is he leaving because of me?'
    • Former Fox News reporter Carl Cameron told MSNBC that 'it will be telling' to see who steps into Smith's slot
    • Smith, 55, said that he was looking forward to spending more time with his partner Giovanni Graziano, 31, and their dog Lucia
    • Multiple sources told DailyMail.com that Smith's departure was a complete surprise to employees at the network and he was escorted out
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...acked-Fox-News-primetime-colleagues-quit.html
     
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    The Chief Anchor and head of news at the world's largest and by far the most popular cable news network?

    Never heard of him?

    :dupnoevil:
     
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    Yeah I dont watch Fox, or CNN, or MSNBC, or any of the major news networks because theres this shiny new invention called the internet and I dont need political commentary and propaganda dancing around like news and “facts” in order to get informed.
     
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    But, you are in this forum. :devilwink:

    j/k
     
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    Numbers are dwindling maris and your boy had a bad week again with losing 3 court battles. tsk tsk
     
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    Its true and id say I read more political commentary here than just about anywhere. I just remind myself we all have our crazy opinions of reality and whats “good” and “bad”.
     
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    Not me, I have a big brain and a a very stable genius. :bgrin:
     
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    So I listen to stuff like I'll watch interviews, or listen to speeches, or forums. I used to spend a lot of time listening to debates from Harvard, Oxford, MIT. I'm not unwilling to hear things but generally, I want to form my own opinion on things and I found growing up I thought the "major" networks were too often trying to make an opinion for me. So I just stopped watching them as I didn't find what they did, to be "news"...
     
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    If you have better sources of factual, up to the minute news on a world-wide scale please share where you "get informed" so we can all get up to speed with you.
     
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    I already told you where it's at, if you're looking with help using the internet there are probably youtube tutorials.
     
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    UncleCliffy'sDaddy We're all Bozos on this bus.

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    Ummmm......I think @MARIS61 already gets his information from the internet......Just sayin’........it’s kind of a dark, scary road with no real directions. I guess where you end up depends on your driving and navigation skills. Lotta shitty drivers out there, obviously.......
     
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    lol, I'm being somewhat facetious obviously, but it's not that super hard to look for multiple sources, research and then find a youtube video of what people actually said w/o commentary. I certainly wouldn't take Judicial Watch, or Fox or CNN at their word just cause they said so... It's easy enough to go to find more information. That doesn't mean that I always end up in the right place, that would be awfully arrogant, but I certainly try to inform myself even if I don't really know who these "famous" people are.
     
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