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Fox News gets rid of its only real journalist 36 hours after William Barr met with Rupert Murdoch

On October 11, 2019

At 4:23 pm

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Shep Smith cared deeply about having a newscast on Fox that countered the opinion shows that dominate the network. He felt he was doing something critically important. Now he's suddenly walking away. And we haven't heard the half of it yet.— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) October 11, 2019

That’s a pretty safe bet.

. . . also it appears he’s being paid to keep his mouth shut:

SHEP says that under his exit agreement with Fox News, "I won't be reporting elsewhere at least in the near future."— Michael M. Grynbaum (@grynbaum) October 11, 2019

Cheap laughs:

All three cables were covering Parnas/Fruman/Giuliani at the top of the 3 p.m. hour. But Rudy is most likely to be watching Fox, and of the three, Shep's segment seems the most likely to trigger a shouted "asshole" to me. https://t.co/wiIXnKSMRh— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) October 11, 2019