But on Fox & Friends, as with most of the rest of Fox, the “news” knows its place. The sudden end of his 23-year Fox career shows what happens at that network when news and opinion irreconcilably collide. Take, for example, the legitimate journalist and former chief news anchor Shepard Smith: after he had a dramatic on-air feud with the opinion kingpin Tucker Carlson, both Fox News’ CEO and its president reportedly threatened to take Smith off the air if he criticized Carlson again.Ī few weeks later, Smith resigned from the network he had renewed his contract with last year. QWAuOhcRWc- Bobby Lewis October 23, 2018įox & Friends’ combination of sloppy news coverage and fierce rightwing opinion is a microcosm of how much Fox values each side of the network. At Fox News, opinion is king – not newsįox & Friends’ main hosts – Steve Doocy, Ainsley Earhardt and Brian Kilmeade – are a consistent train wreck of shameless hackery, even managing to turn a report about Trump’s $1bn in business losses into a glowing endorsement of his bold, wealthy brilliance.įox's Griff Jenkins got to play Border Patrol yesterday, foiling and shaming a family's attempt to escape rampant extortion in Honduras. And after consuming thousands of hours of Rupert Murdoch’s finest drivel, I’ve learned a few things about how America’s No 1 news network is dragging the United States into ruin. Since July 2018, I’ve been one among a lucky few live-tweeting the show along with the president. Like any avid TV viewer, Trump has his favorite stories, and few rival the morning show Fox & Friends, where he spent years making frequent appearances before diving into politics. Nearly four years later, the US political world revolves around the tweets of an erratic Fox News-watching grandpa who just so happens to run the most powerful country on Earth. Most people were wrong about a lot of things. Most people, eventually including Donald Trump, assumed Hillary Clinton would be elected the 45th president of the United States that November. It was 9 February 2016, when I began my career as a critic of Fox News at Media Matters for America, a not-for-profit progressive research center dedicated to monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the US media. And for shows that did begin in the fall of 2010, their first season would have to end in 2010 to officially make the cut.“E verything should calm down a little bit in seven months,” they said. NOTE: For the purposes of this gallery and list, no shows that started before the fall of 2009 were eligible for this. Yeah, '25 of the best shows' is probably more accurate. So here are the 25 best shows of the 2010s or if you want to argue about it - and you most likely do - 25 of the best shows of the 2010s. A whole decade full of truly great television - a decade of “Peak TV,” you see - that deserves to be looked back on.

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