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Shepard Smith leaves Fox News

I've always referred to him as Shepard "I Should Say" Smith due to his inability to read a teleprompter without constantly correcting himself.

If he's truly an impartial news reader he should not be difficult to replace, probably for the better.
 
What you're missing is that Trump starts complaining about Fox News' poll and Fox News being insufficiently loyal. Atty General Barr and Rupert Murdoch have a secret meeting. Fox News covers Trump's Minneapolis rally with graphics stating it was a "massive" rally. Then, one of the few Fox personalities to criticize Trump and try to do news, not administration propaganda, "resigns". Either management leaned on Shep to knock off the non-worship or outright "suggested" his firing. Is Chris Wallace next?

No mind, I hear the beet harvest is right on schedule.
 
Fox wasted a golden opportunity to host a special primetime program with Tucker Carlson & Joe diGenova vs Shepard Smith & Andrew Napolitano It could have been an epic debate
 
I'm also curious what the DOJ may have had to hold over Rupert's head to force or "strongly suggest" changes favorable to the President?
 
TheBigA said:
I believe that was largely coincidental. From what I see, Smith's leaving had been in the works for a few weeks. I have no reason to believe one had anything to do with the other.
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Technically Lachlan Murdoch is the current leader of Fox Corp. and for some time there have been articles of Fox News trying to figure out how to respond to other right wing outlets attempting to beat them in the future. Also there were talks that Fox was trying to bring non-Trump viewers to the outlet when the Donna Brazile Pundit contract with Fox News was discussed.
 
The conspiracy theorists are out on this one, and it goes like this: Trump complained to his buddy Hannity, Hannity complained to the head of FoxNews, and Shep is asked to resign. It might be plausible, but I don't buy it. I think Shep will show up at either MSNBC or CNN with a hefty new contract after he sits out his non-compete.
 
seatownmedia said:
The conspiracy theorists are out on this one, and it goes like this: Trump complained to his buddy Hannity, Hannity complained to the head of FoxNews, and Shep is asked to resign. It might be plausible, but I don't buy it. I think Shep will show up at either MSNBC or CNN with a hefty new contract after he sits out his non-compete.
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/shepard-smith-stepping-down-from-fox-news

Here is another one Fox News feared that they might lose viewers to OANN.

But Shepard Smith chose to not renew his contract at Fox News and let the management know in advance.

Also the President is bragging about watching OANN more than Fox News for Right Wing talking points in this link.

Yes it's plausible that Shep Smith has not gotten along with the Talk show hosts that air on Fox News whenever it's about the President specifically.
 
RadioPatrol said:
But Shepard Smith chose to not renew his contract at Fox News and let the management know in advance.
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That part is not true. He signed a new multi-year deal in March 2018 for $15 million. He asked to get out of that long term deal, and as he said on the air, he will have to sit out at least two more years.
 
With the shifting opinions of other hosts and the hiring of some left-leaning pundits, Smith recently had new allies at Fox News. He was in a better position than ever to influence the upcoming election if that's what he wanted to do. But I don't think Smith cares much about politics. Where he really shines is in covering weather events and other disasters. Those stories require less critical thinking.

But PTDS (President Trump Derangement Syndrome) is a powerful force that eats away at people and occupies their minds constantly. Sometimes makes them do irrational things. So my conspiracy theory is that Smith will convince Fox that there's no need to enforce the non-compete clause when he start his new gig at The Weather Channel.
 
He didn't so much want to influence the election as tell the truth, which Trump's cult worshippers don't want to hear.
wadio said:
With the shifting opinions of other hosts and the hiring of some left-leaning pundits, Smith recently had new allies at Fox News. He was in a better position than ever to influence the upcoming election if that's what he wanted to do. But I don't think Smith cares much about politics. Where he really shines is in covering weather events and other disasters. Those stories require less critical thinking.

But PTDS (President Trump Derangement Syndrome) is a powerful force that eats away at people and occupies their minds constantly. Sometimes makes them do irrational things. So my conspiracy theory is that Smith will convince Fox that there's no need to enforce the non-compete clause when he start his new gig at The Weather Channel.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/13/business/media/trump-fox-news.html

Its only going to escalate the conspiracy why Shep Smith left Fox News.

Fed up with the coverage on his favorite cable news station, President Trump decided late this summer that a direct intervention was needed. So he telephoned the chief executive of Fox News, Suzanne Scott, and let loose.

In a lengthy conversation, Mr. Trump complained that Fox News was not covering him fairly, according to three people with knowledge of the call. Ms. Scott, who has led the cable network since last year, responded by urging Mr. Trump to sit for an interview with Bret Baier, the channel’s chief political anchor, the people said.

If the conversation placated Mr. Trump — who has taken to calling Fox News “HOPELESS & CLUELESS!” — his public statements in the weeks afterward did not show it.

Irked by their reporting, he taunted the Fox News anchor Shepard Smith, who resigned from the network on Friday, and its chief national correspondent, Ed Henry. He declared that the Fox News pollsters “suck” after they found majority support for impeachment and openly pined for the network’s “good old days.”

“@Fox News doesn’t deliver for US anymore,” Mr. Trump tweeted last week.

That tensions exist at all between Mr. Trump and the home of Sean Hannity and “Fox & Friends” has prompted incredulity inside the network and out. Fox News’s star commentators — including Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham and Jeanine Pirro — are among the president’s most vociferous media defenders, providing a punditry firewall that Mr. Trump arguably needs more than ever as an impeachment inquiry looms and the 2020 campaign intensifies.

But the president has rarely been satisfied with the adulation he receives from the network’s prime-time and morning opinion shows. Instead, he often fixates on any hint of criticism, deeming the network ungrateful for the high ratings that he attributes to himself.
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But at the Same time Fox had to deal with possible right wing contenders such as Sinclair, OANN and Newsmax all trying to get the president's attention.
 
It appears that Smith had some internal dispute with Tucker Carlson
and management took Carlson's side.

So Shep decided to take his ball and go home.
 
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