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ificandream

(10,709 posts)
Sun Mar 27, 2022, 10:44 AM Mar 2022

Chris Wallace Says Life at Fox News Became 'Unsustainable'

His father was a superb journalist. Too bad Chris has the Fux blot on his resume now. At least he's broken off from it. Better late, than never.

By Michael Grynbaum/The New York Times

“I just no longer felt comfortable with the programming at Fox.”

Chris Wallace uttered those words matter-of-factly, in between bites of a Sweetgreen salad at his new desk inside the Washington bureau of CNN, the network he joined in January after nearly two decades at Fox News.

For those on the left who admired him, and those on the right who doubted him, it’s a statement that was a long time coming.

A down-the-middle outlier at Fox News who often confounded conservatives by contradicting the network’s right-wing stars, Mr. Wallace was also one of the channel’s fiercest defenders, disappointing liberals who hoped he might denounce colleagues like Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson.

Read more (original link, paywall): https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/27/business/media/chris-wallace-cnn-fox-news.html

Read more (Axios, no paywall): https://news.yahoo.com/chris-wallace-working-fox-became-134739073.html




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Chris Wallace Says Life at Fox News Became 'Unsustainable' (Original Post) ificandream Mar 2022 OP
He waited Rebl2 Mar 2022 #1
Agreed. Look what motivated him to leave. ificandream Mar 2022 #3
In this case MOMFUDSKI Mar 2022 #2
Saw a documentary on Mike Wallace and he did rock, indeed. ificandream Mar 2022 #4
well i certainly don't want to be watching him on cnn orleans Jul 2022 #5
At least it's not Megyn Kelly on NBC ificandream Jul 2022 #6

Rebl2

(14,930 posts)
1. He waited
Sun Mar 27, 2022, 11:15 AM
Mar 2022

far to long to quit fox. He should have been uncomfortable with fox many years ago.

ificandream

(10,709 posts)
3. Agreed. Look what motivated him to leave.
Sun Mar 27, 2022, 12:09 PM
Mar 2022

There were so many things before that that should have told him it was time to go. For one, look at the firing of Roger Ailes, the departures of Shepard Smith, Gretchen Carlson and Megyn Kelly, the firings of Bill O'Reilly, Bill Shine and Eric Bolling. Rupert's tabloid dump has long been that and more.

 

MOMFUDSKI

(7,080 posts)
2. In this case
Sun Mar 27, 2022, 11:49 AM
Mar 2022

the apple fell and then rolled 17 miles and Chris is what you got. Mike Wallace ROCKED!

ificandream

(10,709 posts)
4. Saw a documentary on Mike Wallace and he did rock, indeed.
Sun Mar 27, 2022, 12:12 PM
Mar 2022

Not many of you probably remember Mike Wallace as host of the series "Biography" way way back when. Probably my earliest memory of him, but it was a great series.

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orleans

(35,206 posts)
5. well i certainly don't want to be watching him on cnn
Fri Jul 15, 2022, 01:46 AM
Jul 2022

when he's on i click it off.

(fuck him)

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