Fox Business Benches Trish Regan After Outcry Over Coronavirus Comments

nytimes ^ | 3/13/2020 | Michael M. Grynbaum

[bitt]

The host of “Trish Regan Primetime” told viewers this week that concerns about the coronavirus were “yet another attempt to impeach the president.”

The Fox Business anchor Trish Regan, whose on-air dismissal of the coronavirus as “another attempt to impeach the president” left her cable network facing a firestorm of criticism this week, has been removed from her prime-time slot for the foreseeable future, the network said on Friday.

Ms. Regan’s 8 p.m. program, “Trish Regan Primetime,” is “on hiatus until further notice,” Fox Business said in a statement. The network declined to say if Ms. Regan would continue to appear on its other programs, saying that its coverage plans for the coronavirus crisis remained in flux.

Fox Business attributed the move to “the demands of the evolving pandemic crisis coverage,” saying it was shifting resources toward daytime coverage of the pandemic and global markets. Both “Trish Regan Primetime” and its follow-up at 9, “Kennedy,” will be replaced by general-interest programs.

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[GuavaCheesePuff]

Regan is probably fired.

She might go to CNN or something.

[McGruff]

Fox Business attributed the move to “the demands of the evolving pandemic crisis coverage,”

Yeah right.

[RoseofTexas]

Time for folks to boycott faux news!! We made them we can break them!!!

[Fresh Wind]

“We distort, you deride”

[miserare]

Darn! I liked her...beautiful and brainy.

[Paladin2]

Fox is trying to impeach Trump?

Should FOX foxes be put on the endangered species list?

[Travis McGee]

She was a "It's just the flu!" cheerleader.

(Those sneaky Italians are just pretending to die by the 100s per day to hurt Trump.)

Like Rush. "It's just the common cold!"

Where have we heard that before?

[TheConservativeParty]

Now all we will tune into is Lou Dobbs.
They’ll ditch him too.

[FlingWingFlyer]

But not one leftist maggot on the other “news” channels have had so much as their knuckles rapped with a ruler for saying President Trump caused the Wuhan virus. That’s why our side is a perennial loser. Our side doesn’t like the truth either.

[clintonh8r]

They killed “Kennedy” too. Too bad. Fox Business has been my main station for a couple of years.

[familyop]

It's a serious situation that shouldn't be politicized by either side.

What we know about the Americans who died from coronavirus
ABC by way of MSN
by Sony Salzman
March 14, 2020
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/what-we-know-about-the-americans-who-died-from-coronavirus/ar-BB11aUrL?li=BBnb7Kz

"Basic demographic information from local health authorities -- age, gender or both -- is available for 42 of the deaths. Among those, at least 24 were women and 18 were men...In the U.S., of the cases for which there is data, only one person who died was in their 40s, while two people died in their 50s. Seven people were in their 60s, nine people in their 70s, 13 people in their 80s and 10 people were in their 90s."

[LouieFisk]

I’m glad I don’t have cable so I don’t have to endure any cable news network nonsense.
Not that this gal should have been sacked, though.

[blueunicorn6]

How are the stores doing where you live?

Are they all sold out?

[Magic Fingers]

“Those sneaky Italians are just pretending to die by the 100s per day to hurt Trump.”

Their commitment to the cause is extraordinary.

[GuavaCheesePuff]

Kennedy and Regan are goners.

Bartiromo will be next, soon.

[SuperLuminal]

The truth hurts!

[House Atreides]

Can you take a minute from your “let’s panic over the Coronavirus” jihad and give me YOUR estimate of deaths in America from the Coronavirus that will occur for the full 2020 calendar year?

[ZOOKER]

Don't know her. Never saw her show.

I'm guessing that a lot of people involved with the "firestorm of criticism" Fox received never saw her either.

The Wuhan virus is real, not made up - this is true. But it's been sensationalized, weaponized, politicized, in order to tear down Trump. That also is true.