Posted on 09/28/2019 7:19:10 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The incendiary on air war that broke out earlier this week, pitting several of the most prominent Fox News channel personalities against each other, has cooled off for the moment. The sudden flare-up of simmering grudges between Fox News’s opinion and news sides that finally boiled over into public view involved opinion host Tucker Carlson, news host Shepard Smith, and the channel’s senior legal analyst Andrew Napolitano. The war of harsh words that went back and forth on Carlson’s and Smith’s programs Tuesday and Wednesday, which also involved Carlson’s guest, Republican attorney Joseph diGenova, was unprecedented and was immediately seized on by a wide range of media as evidence of serious trouble at the country’s highest rated cable news channel.
Shepard Smith (left) and Andrew Napolitano kick off the controversy on Shepard Smith Reporting, Sept. 24, 2019
Gabriel Sherman is the author of a critical biography of the late Fox News co-founder Roger Ailes and he writes often about goings on at FNC for left wing publications. On Thursday, Sherman posted a new article at Vanity Fair, “’It’s Management Bedlam’: Madness at Fox News as Trump Faces Impeachment.” Citing his usual, unnamed, anonymous sources, Sherman wrote:
Seeking to quell the internecine strife before it carried into a third day, Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott and president Jay Wallace communicated to Smith this morning [Thursday September 27] to stop attacking Carlson, a person briefed on the conversation said. “They said if he does it again, he’s off the air,” the source said. (Fox News spokesperson Irena Briganti denied that management had any direct conversation with Smith).
Sherman buttressed his article with additional unsourced tidbits that represent raw, ideological red meat for his magazine’s Fox News-hating readers:
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
How could we forget Maryanne Marsh to bring up your breakfast in the mornings.
Yes, while Ingraham is ostensibly on our side, her constant interruptions of people that she booked for the show is nearly unlistenable.
Laura, the audience may actually want to hear what the guests have to say!
These people use a consistent, structured method.
First they offer statements making it seem like they’re on Trump’s side, then they let loose with a hit piece.
Ed Henry does it, Laura Ingraham does it, as do Geraldo Rivera, Andrew Napolitano and many others.
It’s as though they were all formally trained in some kind of quasi-academic activist school whose purpose it is to deceive Americans and turn us against people like Trump who fight the hardest for our values.
I believe the whole scheme falls squarely, in ways these individuals are currently unable to perceive, into the column of low IQ. (Not that their IQs are necessarily low, but that they’ve believed some very stupid ideas.)
How these amoral "switch-able" and double-standard media creatures live with themselves is beyond belief and head-shaking to people like ourselves who were raised with.....and live by ethical standards.
But they make big bucks selling their souls....and in these scenarios, I always re-iterate my favorite pearl of wisdom, i.e., "follow the money trail".
Leni
And she can't say "ing."
Emily, as pretty as she is smart!
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