Mediaite
August 17, 2019
Chris Wallace and Shepard Smith have achieved fame and fortune by being voices of relative reason in the opinion-dominated Fox News landscape, but the time has come for them to take a stand against the home of Tucker Carlson’s dangerous rhetoric, and take their talents elsewhere.
The offenses of Fox News’ “opinion side” and ostensible “hard news side” are numerous and far-reaching, many of which have been catalogued on this site. They range from merely embarrassing falsehoods to dangerously inflammatory lies, with a through-line of both overt and poorly-coded racism.
Through it all, the folks on the “hard news” side have taken refuge behind their alleged partition from the “opinion” folks, with varying degrees of success.