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

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  1. Hoopguru

    Hoopguru Well-Known Member

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    Shepard Smith I think was good at breaking news and calling play by play.
    I think he tried to present news without much political bias.
     
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    umm, It has been here a while now. I had a heck of time getting it at my ranch in NE OR. It was tough to get a private phone line instead of share neighborhood line.
    I manage to get it done though, about 1991. As I recall, there was only one ISP I could connect with that wasn't long distance. Prodigy I think was the name
     
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    UncleCliffy'sDaddy We're all Bozos on this bus.

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    As I’ve mentioned before, one of my morning “information stops” is at Real Clear Politics. It definitely leans right (while maintaining the facade of “fair and neutral”) but it compiles articles and opinion pieces from both sides of the aisle. So I’ll read one take and then the other side. I figure the truth lies (hopefully) somewhere in the middle, so those readings along with sorting through the rest of the noise around every issue give me (probably) a more informed idea than just listening to the partisan bullshit. But then, how often do we ever know the whole (or any) “truth” about anything....?
     
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    Well fact checking isn't really partisan and fact checking trump shows time after time of lying. When you fact check it's either true or false and many of trumps come up 100% false.
     
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    We've come a longs ways from your days in eastern Oregon. We have phones that don;t even need a wire now. You should try one.

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    ABM Happily Married In Music City, USA!

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    Oh man, that's a blast from the past. I totally remember Prodigy, Compuserve and Delphi.net (I think that was the name). I haven't thought about those names in almost a quarter of a century.

    AOL, Netscape, Tel-net, Deja-News...man, kids these days don't know how easy they can access porn compared to in our day...
     
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    Computer porn in my day:

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    Done on a dot matrix printer! State of the art, same as the printer that printed across the top of an 80 column Hollerith punch card.
     
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    Beautifully said!
     
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    Yep, never heard of him. Of course, I don't watch tripe.
     
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    PBS, CNN, NBC and MSNBC.
    The News Hour;
    Washington Week;
    Faried Zakaria's The Global Public Square;
    Meet the Press;
    Chris Matthew's Hardball;
    Chris Hays' All In;
    KATU's 11 PM local news.

    And then there's the myriad of internet sources when I research subjects which includes NY Times, Washington Post, AP, Reuters and a host of other credible sources.
     
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    I mostly agree with this, but have to question the entire graph after seeing that Breitbart isn't entirely in the "garbage right" section. Should be off the page.
     
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    Yeah, I'm not sure about that graph. Would be interesting to know whether they were attempting to rank just on hard news coverage, or overall content.

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    They have it in about the same spot as Buzz Feed on the left. Is there a significant difference? I don’t partake of either swill so I can’t comment. Quibbles aside over a few outlets, it seems pretty close to me.
     
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    Buzzfeed should be off the page to the left as well. Haha

    Both equally terrible.
     
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    No, you did not. You said the internet, which could mean you get all your information from me. But that's okay if you're embarrassed to say.

    "The internet" is not a source. In fact, the majority of information on the internet comes through a zillion false-fronts run by the exact networks you named. The idea that there's some website you can trust to tell the truth all the time without bias is naïve.
     
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    So only far-left, Deep State viewpoints, nothing else?
     

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