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Chris Wallace Says Life at Fox News Became 'Unsustainable' [View all]
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
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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