Just a few weeks after foreign correspondent Conor Powell walked away from his job at Fox News over its (pro-Trump propaganda) “direction,” stateside reporter Adam Housley has abruptly called it quits for similar reasons.
Although Housley’s official reason for leaving was to spend more time with his family (seriously!), Politico spoke to “two former Fox News employees with knowledge of his situation” and found out what most people probably suspected:
Housley believed that as the network’s focus on Trump has grown — and the number of talking-head panels during news shows proliferated — it had become difficult to get hard reporting on air, according to one of those former employees.
“He’s not doing the type of journalism he wants to be doing,” the former employee said. “And he is unhappy with the tone of the conversation of the channel.”
Housley’s resignation, after 17 years at Fox, comes three weeks after Powell’s initially unexplained decision to resign. But as TheWrap learned, Powell’s reasons for leaving, after nine years on the job, were nearly identiical to Housley’s. According to Politico, these sentiments are “widely shared within the network’s reporting corps, according to current and former employees of the network.” According to one “current Fox News personality” Politico spoke with, “People are losing their minds.”
Let’s hope some of them are willing to speak out as Ralph Peters has or, better yet, write an exposé.
Meanwhile consider the fact that Housley has made no secret of his conservative views while at Fox. So you have to figure that if the network has now gone too far for him, it has really gone out of bounds.
Housley will remain at Fox until the end of the month. He is currently covering Hurricane Lane in Hawaii. Watch a bit of his coverage below, from the August 23, 2018 The Daily Briefing:
.@adamhousley live in #Hawaii with all the storm updates. pic.twitter.com/68xC2pT7kS
— The Daily Briefing (@dailybriefing) August 23, 2018
Some people leave this so-called “network” because the lack of opportunity to either move up or cover more stories.
The Ailes leftovers are still present at this demonic network. All of them should have been terminated years ago. That’s the problem with these frauds.
The Foxies posted an ad searching for an senior executive producer for primetime. Want to bet that whoever The Heels selects will be unqualified?
There is ONE individual who can run this network properly. We guarantee that if he decided to take the lead the turnover rate would end. All of the low-level employees would jump for joy if he took The Heels position. He is more qualified than The Heels and her senior executives put together.
There is a MAJOR gem coming down the pipeline, and we know The Heels will freak out over it.
“The Heels, and her senior producers have zero ability in editorial judgement. These overpaid amateurs couldn’t run a coin-operated commercial washing machine.”
Hmmmmmmmmmmmm, ergo Antoinette, because you mentioned a coin-operated commercial washing machine, one can easily come to the conclusion that The Heels and her senior producers have failed miserably in “cleaning up their act”, am I correct? Therefore, the following conclusion becomes obvious:
The Heels and her senior producers are ALL WASHED UP!
:^)
The Heels, and her senior producers have zero ability in editorial judgement. These overpaid amateurs couldn’t run a coin-operated commercial washing machine.
The associate producers at this lame network are comprised of kids in their 20s. A percentage of them are not the sharpest scissors in the draw.
Housley is moving on to a better opportunity with another company.
NOTE TO HOUSLEY
The leadership at this network is declining.