I don’t really watch a lot of opinion programming.
They can say whatever they want, if it’s their opinion. They don’t really have rules on the opinion side. We work for different reporting chains, we have different rules. Smith told Time in an article published in March that he’s not bothered by the divergence between his reporting and Fox’s opinion slate: "We serve different masters. "The White House knows that it was false or could have learned that it was false with a quick Google check, but either did not do so or decided not to tell the truth." "In short, the president’s assertion is false," Smith said in February 2017. Newsflash included an accurate quote by Smith in which he said Trump made a false statement that the media frequently under-reports radical Islamic terror attacks. Smith has drawn the ire of some Trump fans because he has criticized the president on air. In February, network spokeswoman Irena Briganti told the AP that the story that Smith has been let go was "completely false." In March 2018, Fox News Executive Chairman Rupert Murdoch announced that Smith, the chief news anchor and managing editor of breaking news, signed a multiyear agreement. Smith, one of Fox’s original hires in 1996, is now the anchor of Shepard Smith Reporting (weekdays 3-4PM/ET). One easy giveaway: Smith was just rehired. We did our own reporting and came to the same conclusion that Smith’s job remains safe. The latest iteration of the story has been debunked by the Associated Press and.
We rated that version of the claim Pants on Fire almost a year ago. Snopes, which debunked the claim in 2017, found it first published on, a website that calls itself satire. Read more about our partnership with Facebook.įake stories stating that Smith will be or has been fired have circulated since 2017 on multiple websites. The website, which lacks original reporting, has a hodgepodge of articles about politics and celebrities.įacebook users flagged this story as part of its efforts to combat false news and misinformation on Facebook's News Feed. "Breaking: Shep Smith to be canned because he can’t control his hate for Donald Trump," said a headline by Newsflash. Rupert Murdoch, who controls Fox News' parent company, told The Washington Post that Stirewalt's dismissal "had nothing to do with the correct Arizona call by the Fox decision desk.A hoax continues to circulate on Facebook that Fox News anchor Shepard Smith will be fired because he has been critical of President Donald Trump. The state had a recent track record for voting for Republican presidential candidates, so the call stunned the political world and all but confirmed Trump would lose the 2020 election. Stirewalt came under fire from Trump and his supporters after the Fox News political desk was the first to call Arizona for Biden in November 2020.
During the hearing, the committee displayed texts from Hannity to then-White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany outlining a post-riot "playbook" for Trump.
While Fox News did air live images from the hearing, Carlson and others spoke over it, and the camera often focused on the audience and not the footage of the attack on the Capitol. Instead, Fox aired two hours of commercial-free programming from right-wing commentators Tucker Carlson, who dismissed the hearing as "propaganda," and Sean Hannity. Fox News didn't carry the hearing live Thursday night as other news and broadcast networks did. ET Monday and there are five more hearings planned after that. The next hearing is scheduled for 10 a.m.
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