https://www.washingtonpost.com/life...83e627dc120_story.html?utm_term=.d202f8b5d010
The Washington Post has mentioned Shepard Smith as one of a few people at Fox News that's trying to keep Fox News sane and credible. Also the article mentions the Megyn Kelly comparisons on him. But then again Shepard Smith is being overshadowed by the talk show hosts who generate ratings, attention and controversy at Fox News Channel. The Article also mentions other issues that Smith did that were against the talk show hosts on Fox News such as the Baltimore fallout of 2015 after Freddie Gray's death, the 2015 France attacks and Climate change.
The Washington Post has mentioned Shepard Smith as one of a few people at Fox News that's trying to keep Fox News sane and credible. Also the article mentions the Megyn Kelly comparisons on him. But then again Shepard Smith is being overshadowed by the talk show hosts who generate ratings, attention and controversy at Fox News Channel. The Article also mentions other issues that Smith did that were against the talk show hosts on Fox News such as the Baltimore fallout of 2015 after Freddie Gray's death, the 2015 France attacks and Climate change.
Smith, for example, opened the same afternoon newscast Friday with a sly aside about Trump’s claims: “Of course, the president could learn firsthand whether the building in which he [lived] was wiretapped. All he’d have to do is ask the intelligence services. They work for him.”
Not blunt enough? In mid-February, following Trump’s freewheeling news conference, Smith labeled Trump’s responses “absolutely crazy.” He even — horror of horrors! — defended CNN, Fox’s mortal enemy, when Trump blasted it as “fake news” during another news conference. “CNN’s reporting was not fake news,” Smith said. “Its journalists follow the same standards to which other news organizations, including Fox News, adhere.”
Smith’s persistent fact-mongering has made him persona non grata among some parts of the Fox News faithful, in an echo of the hostile reaction to then-Fox anchor Megyn Kelly’s tough questioning of Trump during the campaign. For weeks, Fox fans have stormed social media with demands for Smith’s firing and boycott threats if the network doesn’t get rid of him.
“Shep Smith has gone full Rachel Maddow,” ranted Paul Joseph Watson, contributing editor of the conspiratorial Infowars, on Twitter after Friday’s dunking of Napolitano. “MSNBC irrelevance is his calling.”
Some have posted an unflattering photo of Smith, 53, above the caption, “If you’re sick of this guy spewing his liberal tripe and his constant criticism of President Trump on a supposed news show, let Fox News know!!” It includes a number for Fox’s viewer comment line.
They’ve memed him, too. One depicts Smith wearing one of the pink wool hats that became the symbol of the Women’s March in January.
The mini-hysteria grew so loud earlier this month that a hoax website reported that Rupert Murdoch, Fox News chairman, had fired Smith for being “too controversial.” It was fake news, of course, but so widely disseminated that Snopes.com stepped in to debunk it.
The hubbub around Smith, who also is Fox’s managing editor of breaking news, has drawn silence from Fox. After initially being open to Smith speaking for a Washington Post article, the network declined to offer him for comment. Smith himself did not reply to interview requests sent to his work and personal email accounts.