Shep Smith breaks his silence about why he left Fox News
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Via: krishna • 3 years ago • 10 commentsBy: By Alexis Benveniste, CNN Business
One of the stations I watch daily is Fox. When I had time I always made it a point to tune in to Smith's broadcasts in the afternoon. It was soon obvious that his focus was on reporting the actual facts -- and not pushing some false information, some political bias.
After he left I found out he was soon to appear on CNN. Then he started his news program there (7-8 PM ET). Lots of news-- all totally objective and unbiased (just like he was on Fox!)
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New York CNN Business - Shep Smith, who left Fox News in October 2019 while in the middle of a three-year contract, has remained largely silent about his departure -- until an interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour that aired Tuesday.
Smith, now host of the nightly show "The News with Shepard Smith" at 7 pm ET on CNBC, told Amanpour that his presence on Fox became untenable as opinion shows on the network spread falsehoods that hosts knew were lies.
"Opine all you like, but if you're going to opine, begin with the truth and opine from there," Smith said. "When people begin with a false premise and lead people astray, that's injurious to society and it's the antithesis of what we should be doing: Those of us who are so honored and grateful to have a platform of public influence have to use it for the public good."
Smith, who joined Fox News at its inception in 1996, said he was proud of the work he did at the network, hosting a daytime news show that was increasingly at odds with what was being aired on Fox's opinion shows. Smith felt that by sticking with Fox News, he could counteract falsehoods spread by Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham and other prime-time hosts.
"I thought it was important that I stay there," he said. "If you feel like the Fox viewers were getting mis- or disinformation, I was there to make sure that they got it straight," he said.
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Smith, now host of the nightly show "The News with Shepard Smith" at 7 pm ET on CNBC, told Amanpour that his presence on Fox became untenable as opinion shows on the network spread falsehoods that hosts knew were lies.
"Opine all you like, but if you're going to opine, begin with the truth and opine from there," Smith said. "When people begin with a false premise and lead people astray, that's injurious to society and it's the antithesis of what we should be doing: Those of us who are so honored and grateful to have a platform of public influence have to use it for the public good.
Smith felt that by sticking with Fox News, he could counteract falsehoods spread by Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham and other prime-time hosts.
He was the only one on the network with any integrity.
He is from my state, which I can actually kinda proudly say.
Chris Wallace was also pretty good. But at times not so much. (I think it is because he is aware of the fact that if he wavered from the "Fox Party" Line too much he's be ousted.
Perhaps he figured that it might be be better to compromise a little-- just enough to remain there-- where he `might possibly be able to do some good?
I believe you had mentioned that you are originally from Mississippi?
Must be difficult at times to live there...????
From and back. Haha
It's not that bad until they start with the crackpot political rwnj crap.