Chris Wallace Says Life at Fox News Became 'Unsustainable'

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His father was a superb journalist. Too bad Chris has the Fux blot on his resume now. At least he's broken off from it. Better late, than never.

By Michael Grynbaum/The New York Times

“I just no longer felt comfortable with the programming at Fox.”

Chris Wallace uttered those words matter-of-factly, in between bites of a Sweetgreen salad at his new desk inside the Washington bureau of CNN, the network he joined in January after nearly two decades at Fox News.

For those on the left who admired him, and those on the right who doubted him, it’s a statement that was a long time coming.

A down-the-middle outlier at Fox News who often confounded conservatives by contradicting the network’s right-wing stars, Mr. Wallace was also one of the channel’s fiercest defenders, disappointing liberals who hoped he might denounce colleagues like Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson.

Read more (original link, paywall): https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/27/business/media/chris-wallace-cnn-fox-news.html

Read more (Axios, no paywall): https://news.yahoo.com/chris-wallace-working-fox-became-134739073.html

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1. He waited

far to long to quit fox. He should have been uncomfortable with fox many years ago.

[ificandream]

3. Agreed. Look what motivated him to leave.

There were so many things before that that should have told him it was time to go. For one, look at the firing of Roger Ailes, the departures of Shepard Smith, Gretchen Carlson and Megyn Kelly, the firings of Bill O'Reilly, Bill Shine and Eric Bolling. Rupert's tabloid dump has long been that and more.

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2. In this case

the apple fell and then rolled 17 miles and Chris is what you got. Mike Wallace ROCKED!

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4. Saw a documentary on Mike Wallace and he did rock, indeed.

Not many of you probably remember Mike Wallace as host of the series "Biography" way way back when. Probably my earliest memory of him, but it was a great series.

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5. well i certainly don't want to be watching him on cnn

when he's on i click it off.

(fuck him)

[ificandream]

6. At least it's not Megyn Kelly on NBC

What a disaster that was.