John Roberts Can’t Admit What’s Happened to the Supreme Courtġ. The Perverse, Potentially Lethal Consequences of Lindsey Graham’s Federal Abortion Ban Mary Trump on How Her Uncle Keeps Getting Away With It Roberts and Kavanaugh Issue a Surprise Warning Shot to Conservative Lawyers Baier is willing to acknowledge that facts exist and should be respected, and that’s what you want from a news-talking guy. But he’s also not going to deliberately introduce inflammatory misinformation into the discourse, and I do recall having seen him push back on especially egregious stuff.
In his final years at the network, Shepard Smith would spend entire segments of his show methodically rebutting the weird theories generated by his colleagues on Fox’s opinion side, Baier is not the sort of guy who will fact-check his own network live on the air. That said, while Baier clearly wants to get things right, he is basically nonconfrontational in classic news-anchor style, which is not necessarily an asset. I have never seen him literally hiss or sneer at a guest professing liberal opinions, which cannot be said for many of the other people who anchor Fox’s nightly shows.
A perfectly cromulent news-talking guy, Baier, who hosts Special Report with Bret Baier and anchors the network’s coverage of marquee political events, is about as even-handed as they come at nights on Fox these days. Capitol on January 6th, 2021,” and “is the sort of guy whose Wikipedia page features a photograph captioned ‘Hemmer at a bar in November 2009.’” Bill Hemmer is a guy who is fine.Ĥ. “Just a guy” would also be a fair assessment of Bill Hemmer, as would “reads the news real good,” “did not himself storm the U.S. “Basically fine” is my assessment of Bill Hemmer, who co-hosts America’s Newsroom with Dana Perino, who is slightly more fine than Bill Hemmer. (His co-hosts Ainsley Earhardt and Brian Kilmeade never stood any chance of making this list.) Doocy also gets points for seeming not to want his viewers to die of COVID-19 in order to own the libs, and because he seems to truly love and be proud of his handsome tall son Peter.ħ. The Fox & Friends co-host is more of a “morning show guy who somehow found himself cheerfully spouting cryptofascist propaganda for a living” than a “cryptofascist propagandist who somehow ended up hosting a morning show,” which to my mind makes him slightly less terrible than his early-rising colleagues at the network. This small concession to rationality means that Hannity is, at present, somehow the network’s most tolerable nightly opinion host.Ĩ. On at least two occasions I have heard the generally bloviating primetime host gently suggest that wearing masks to inhibit the transmission and contraction of COVID-19 is not, in fact, tantamount to mental slavery. As the Fox News of the Trump era and beyond has sunk to new lows, these broadcasters have remained somewhere north of the very bottom.ġ0. This list is not an absolute measure of non-horribleness, but a relative measure. Fauci invented COVID or something like that.
It wouldn’t at all be a “gotcha” if you unearthed a clip from any of these people saying that Dr. It’s not a blanket endorsement, since many of these personalities, particularly the ones from the opinion side, are plenty guilty of tribal sophistry, Trump toadyism, and general culture-war saber-rattling. “Despite having to keep up with the increased digital demands with fewer people, those who bring you the news are some of the most dedicated, principled people, committed to keeping you informed and getting the story right no matter the personal sacrifice,” she says.I’ve assembled a quick, noncomprehensive list of the 10 least despicable marquee names remaining at Fox News. Unruh does have nice things to say about the colleagues she left behind. “I would personally like to see local stations return to airing fewer newscasts with more emphasis on solid, impactful, longer format journalism.” “Nearly every newscast begins with ‘breaking news,’ which I think people are tired of hearing - I know I am - and informative stories are sometimes passed over for the more sensational,” she says. In the interview with New England Living TV, Unruh also objected to the focus these days on what she calls “sensational” news at the expense of reported pieces.
“I always wanted to be taken seriously for my reporting and not for wearing a dress that showed cleavage or hugged my figure.” “I can only hope if I touched a nerve in some small way that it makes the pendulum swing back in the other direction,” she said. (A Channel 5 rep didn’t respond to an e-mail Wednesday.) Unruh reiterated that she is not speaking about Channel 5 in particular.