For a figure who strove to present the news as evenhandedly as possible, Shepard Smith had become extremely controversial by the time he announced his departure from Fox News on Oct. 11. Indeed, it…
Indeed, it was his equanimity that made him controversial. Smith, the host of Fox’s hard-news 3 p.m. hour as well as anchor of the cabler’s breaking-news division, refused to toe the line on key
Trump got right that the network had changed, but precisely backward what had shifted it. Smith, who’d been with Fox News since its inception, represented continuity with an aspect of the network’s history. Provocation has been part of Fox News’ DNA since its first day on the air in 1996, but the network’s identity does emphasize news running alongside opinion.
Smith was both at odds with the philosophy that makes Fox News so popular and pragmatically useful for Fox’s leadership. So, too, is Fox’s dayside lineup, lacking an anchor with credibility, or a backbone for more serious and less slanted information, among viewers outside the network’s core constituency.
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