"We’re not going to do more crap"
...said Fox News' Shepard Smith about his new show .. apparently stating that the amount of crap on Fox News is quite sufficient.
He told TV Guide, "We have to do more news. We’ve already given up the “coming up” teasing that we were known for in the early days. We’ve taken all of that time and put it into content. We did that because viewers said that’s what they wanted. Viewers have said, “Stop telling me for 45 seconds what you’re going to do in the next four minutes.” So we have.
We’re not going to do more crap. We’re not going to do more titillating [stories], Hollywood-movie reviews and jokes. We’re going to do less of that. There are other places that do that better than we do. I don’t make any apologies for the way we’ve done it in the past. There was an atmosphere where it was acceptable because people didn’t have so much of it. We need to do news."[..]
Hey Shep, is this just one gigantic resume you're sending out? FoxNews may think it's a conservative newscast, but it has turned into one big tabloid.
Are you sick and tired of all that political grandstanding for the Republican Party? Are you having an epiphany .. not wanting to be eternally damned and tainted by Fox?
I do love that man's voice .. he's about the only reason I ever click on FoxNews.
Shep has always struck me as about the only guy on Fox who could make a respectable journalist .. if he wasn’t on Fox. He seems to be the least likely one to just automatically spew the network’s line at the drop of a hat.
I clearly remember his reporting from New Orleans .. he was brilliant, compassionate and honest. He was reporting from that bridge where Katrina victims were begging for water and he got mad and shouted down Hannity, who was sitting in an air-conditioned studio making excuses for the gov'ment.
So, he has it in him. Now .. let us see him stop the talk and walk the walk.
With so many unreported newsworthy stories, one would think that FoxNews would have plenty to report. But no .. last I looked they were shoveling out Britney Spears and her baby/daddy problems ad nauseam. When Fox reporters were not discussing K-Fed and friends, they were trashing Democrats.
Shepard Smith was reporting on a sexual assault claim on the grounds of the Playboy mansion... repeatedly.
Maybe they think we need a break from CNN's 9+ hours coverage of the horrible mine accident in Utah.
I noticed what Shep didn’t say to TV Guide -- “...from now on we are only going to tell the real truth about issues and what people say, rather than what Roger Ailes tells us to say. We will no longer be making efforts to destroy people and their reputations who disagree with our opinions which from now on will be clearly labeled as ‘opinions.’
FOX will be labeled a joke and a right-wing propaganda machine until it proves itself to not be one.
Even the Simpsons know ...
