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E.D. Hill To Leave Fox News Channel (Fired over comment about Obama)
http://www.mediabistro.com ^ | Monday, Nov 17 | www.mediabistro.com

Posted on 11/18/2008 10:54:41 PM PST by Maelstorm

Exclusive: TVNewser has learned veteran Fox News Channel anchor E.D. Hill will not be renewed when her current contract expires. Hill, who has been with Fox News for more than 10 years, will continue with the network for the next few months until her current deal expires.

SVP of Programming Bill Shine tells TVNewser that he "chose not to renew E.D.'s latest contract" but noted that "Hill has been a valued contributor to the success of FNC over the years, and we wish her all the best."

Hill has been without a regular Fox News program since June 16, when America's Pulse was replaced by two hours of Live Desk. Ten days earlier Hill used the term terrorist fist jab when promoting an upcoming body language segment that was going to look into the primary night fist bump shared by Barack and Michelle Obama.

For most of her nearly 11 years at FNC Hill anchored Fox & Friends. In 2006 she moved to a late morning program then to the afternoons where, in the months leading up to the election, she'd been filling in on America's Election HQ.


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: andsoitbegins; cowardice; edhill; fairnessdoctrine; fox; foxjumpedtheshark; foxnews; freespeech; hill; jab; jumpthefox; jumptheshark; nofreespeech; obama; obamatransitionfile; tabloid; terrorist
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To: NRA2BFree

much better than Gretchen!


61 posted on 11/19/2008 5:07:45 AM PST by Blogger
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To: Maelstorm

It’s time to drop the cloak of “objective reporting” and give us the common sense view of newsworthy events. I want to hear sound, brilliant biases thriving in the heart of proud conservatives on a news channel that defies the seductive trend of liberal elitism.

Let’s see who will create a serious news channel that proudly gives the news from a conservative worldview where all reporters must be socially and fiscally conservative.


62 posted on 11/19/2008 5:07:46 AM PST by conservativepoet (The chief aim of order within Christianity is to make room for good things to romp and play.)
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To: CanadianMusherinMI
Zan and Zana, the Wonder Twins. Form of an ice sculpture...

Loved that show! But I was a Hong Kong Fooey girl, myself...

63 posted on 11/19/2008 5:08:16 AM PST by RepoGirl ("I've seen things you wouldn't believe. Sea beams glittering at the Tannhauser gait.")
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To: Maelstorm

64 posted on 11/19/2008 5:09:01 AM PST by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: AmericanGirlRising

Hannity and Greta are all I watch on there any more. They are basically unwatchable.


65 posted on 11/19/2008 5:09:38 AM PST by Blogger
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To: mrsmel
We need to all just quit watching Fox, along with the networks. Believe me, you can be just as informed, even better informed, without television news and newspapers. Use internet access.

I watch less and less of Fox anyway. There are a few bright spots on the network - Neil Cavuto and that morning crew. I stopped watching that gang that's on with Brit Hume because, except for Krauthammer, they're all moderate-liberal anyway. Even Brit has lost his touch these last few months.

There are some on the network that induce immediate channel-changing. O'Reilly is, and has been, a statist buffoon that thinks that more laws and more regulation are the answers to non-existant problems. Schwepp Smith is just plain liberal, and a whiney crybaby as well. He sealed his fate when he stood on that bridge post-Katrina begging for tax dollars from the fed to give to the deadbeats in NO who were dumb enough to elect an inept Mayor.

66 posted on 11/19/2008 5:10:21 AM PST by meyer (We are all John Galt)
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To: omega4179
i wish obama and michelle had turned in to some things incapable of “ruling” America when they fist bumped! blunder twins activate!! oh well, i can dream......
67 posted on 11/19/2008 5:10:56 AM PST by CanadianMusherinMI (drill baby drill/mine baby mine!)
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To: Maelstorm

In general, I liked ED Hill. Much of her reporting was very common sense....except for the fact that she seemed to support Planned “Parenthood.”


68 posted on 11/19/2008 5:12:47 AM PST by SumProVita ("Cogito ergo sum pro vita." .....updated Descartes)
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To: mrsmel
We need to all just quit watching Fox

I already have. Sad, but it is long past time for Conservatives to abandon all illusions of Media Sympathy.

The Progressive Business advertisers are not going to allow for Fair and Balanced, as anyone who watched Fox and their plain lousy coverage of this past election can see. They were "Conservative" the way Huntley and Brinkley were "neutral. Neutrality is an illusion, and I'm not going to be satisfied with the crumbs from the Liberal Table. Sorry.

I've never been exactly a fan of ED, but she's being persecuted, and that's crap.

69 posted on 11/19/2008 5:13:56 AM PST by Prospero (non est ad astra mollis e terris via)
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To: Jack Hammer

She said something long time ago, and it was akin to calling Obama a terrorist. I thought they fired her,why is it news now? Michelle Malkin called Michelle Obama a baby’s mama,she’s not around either. I didn’t like either of them-too harsh.


70 posted on 11/19/2008 5:15:09 AM PST by teacherbarbie (I would go into politics, but I like to keep my youthful looks.)
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To: television is just wrong

“call fox and protest.”

What would be the point? They are already moving toward the dark side.


71 posted on 11/19/2008 6:12:34 AM PST by LottieDah (If only those who speak so eloquently on the rights of animals would do so on behalf of the unborn.)
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To: buccaneer81

LOL

well done.


72 posted on 11/19/2008 6:13:28 AM PST by Canedawg (The media is a ass, a idiot.," said Mr. Bumble.)
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To: television is just wrong

Why protest. What she said about the fist bump is utterly retarded.
And she really didn’t communicate much depth on other matters either.

She had a good run. Good for her.


73 posted on 11/19/2008 6:14:06 AM PST by romanesq
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To: Prospero

There is a market for a true conservative news network. Why isn’t some smart business person filling the void?


74 posted on 11/19/2008 6:15:06 AM PST by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: teacherbarbie

Malkin is very much around. I see her on Fox all the time. She is NOT too harsh, she is a conservative.


75 posted on 11/19/2008 6:17:34 AM PST by dforest (Is there any good idea out there that Obama doesn't lay claim to anymore?)
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To: Steve Van Doorn

Wait until they are turned loose with the orce of law behind them.


76 posted on 11/19/2008 6:18:50 AM PST by sport
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To: Maelstorm

It was a dumb comment to make IMHO


77 posted on 11/19/2008 6:21:33 AM PST by MilspecRob (Most people don't act stupid, they really are.)
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To: GOP Poet
Fox is pandering, but E.D was in another world when she used the word terrorist. The fist bump has been a signature form of street bravado for at least ten years. On the BB court, in rap videos, in school hallways during passing it is a common form of body language. The modern day high five. The problem with the Obamas is that they are wayyy to old to be using it. Whether Obama admits it or not, he is the last birth cohort of the baby boom, even though his parents don't qualify. Kids I've spoken to in class, whio supported him universally, thought the fist bump a silly effort to be something he's, in their eyes, not. Young.

E.D. should have known better before making her reference.

78 posted on 11/19/2008 6:24:19 AM PST by xkaydet65
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To: Dacula

Yet it’s perfectly fine for two of FNCs girlie-men to air shrill ad hominem, unfounded, anonymous smears against Gov. Palin.


79 posted on 11/19/2008 6:25:00 AM PST by over3Owithabrain
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To: AmericanGirlRising
Hannity is next. They’re likely waiting on him to use some mildly politically incorrect statement that 1 person in 1,000 deems hate speech and he’s out.

He is skating on thin ice.

80 posted on 11/19/2008 6:25:10 AM PST by alrea (Liberals are just socialists that spend like capitalists.)
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