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Chris Wallace: I ‘No Longer Felt Comfortable’ With Fox Programming

Posted by Ellen -7859.80pc on March 27, 2022 · Flag

Although he declined to criticize Tucker Carlson or any other Fox News Putinista, Chris Wallace made it pretty clear to The New York Times he thinks Fox has gone off the rails and he wants nothing more to do with it.

When Wallace announced his departure from Fox, in December, I wrote that he “deliberately gave the impression that he was just looking for something different, that his departure had nothing to do with the Trumpification of Fox. ‘

But in an interview published today, Wallace told the Times’ Michael Grynbaum,” in a manner that Grynbaum described as “matter-of-factly,” “I just no longer felt comfortable with the programming at Fox.” Wallace didn’t explicitly criticize the network’s promotion of the Big Lie nor its gaslighting of the January 6th insurrection but you don’t need to be a mind reader to know what Wallace meant when he said, “I think Fox has changed over the course of the last year and a half.”

“I’m fine with opinion: conservative opinion, liberal opinion,” Mr. Wallace said in his first extensive interview about his decision to leave. “But when people start to question the truth — Who won the 2020 election? Was Jan. 6 an insurrection? — I found that unsustainable.”

“I spent a lot of 2021 looking to see if there was a different place for me to do my job,” he added.

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He confirmed reports that he was so alarmed by Mr. Carlson’s documentary “Patriot Purge” — which falsely suggested the Jan. 6 Capitol riot was a “false flag” operation intended to demonize conservatives — that he complained directly to Fox News management.

“Before, I found it was an environment in which I could do my job and feel good about my involvement at Fox,” Mr. Wallace said of his time at the network. “And since November of 2020, that just became unsustainable, increasingly unsustainable as time went on.”

I highly recommend reading the entire article.

You can watch Wallace announce his departure from Fox below, from the December 12, 2021 Fox News Sunday.

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Steve St John commented 2022-03-28 23:58:52 -0400 · Flag
Fox has been awful from the beginning, so I always find myself wondering, in situations like this, when and why it became too much for Wallace to deal with. Like, what was the breaking point? He says it’s when they started to question the truth, but hasn’t Fox been a lie machine since the beginning?
Max Sala commented 2022-03-28 08:03:24 -0400 · Flag
Very early during his tenure at Fox, Chris invited his father to come on the show. It was an interview format, but meant to celebrate Father’s Day which was taken place that day. Things turned awkward when Mike told Chris how proud he was of him, but asked why are you lowering yourself by doing this? Or words something to that effect. The comment silenced Chris momentarily. He never did answer and the interview net got back on track.
Bemused commented 2022-03-28 04:35:35 -0400 · Flag
I truly don’t know what riles me the most. Wallace’s smug self-righteousness or CNN’s having hired him.
The man’s only claim to being a journalist is (to my mind) founded exclusively on his being his father’s son.
John McKee commented 2022-03-27 17:43:23 -0400 · Flag
My god. It doesn’t take much for escapees from the Alcatraz of ‘news’ services to gain acceptance in the real and actual world. Never forget that this man spent 25 YEARS of his life giving Wrinkled Rupert and Ailes’ propaganda machine the thinnest possible veneer of legitimacy.








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