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ClearSky24

(234 posts)
Tue Jan 19, 2021, 07:57 PM Jan 2021

Fox News purge: Political editor Chris Stirewalt is laid off alongside up to 20 other digital...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9165355/Fox-News-fires-dozen-staffers-including-political-editor-Chris-Stirewalt.html

Fox News has laid off one of its political editors Chris Stirewalt and more than a dozen other staffers as part of a 'post-election restructuring'.

Stirewalt, 45, who had been with the network for more than a decade, was part of Fox's election night team that correctly called Arizona for Joe Biden long before other networks in a move that infuriated Donald Trump and his supporters.

In addition to Stirewalt, at least 16 editorial staffers from the Fox News Digital department have been laid off.

Sources have described the Fox News lay-offs as a 'blood bath' initiated by editor in chief Porter Berry who is a former Sean Hannity producer, and appears intent on remolding the network to be more align with the pro-Trump views on Hannity.
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Fox News purge: Political editor Chris Stirewalt is laid off alongside up to 20 other digital... (Original Post) ClearSky24 Jan 2021 OP
Hannity is a turd blossom. lpbk2713 Jan 2021 #1
So who's going to win the battle of the sewer Elwood P Dowd Jan 2021 #2
Faux has the deepest pockets and the biggest investment in duping the chumps. hedda_foil Jan 2021 #3
Their Pockets Are WAY Deeper ProfessorGAC Jan 2021 #5
The Liars At Fox News... CentralMass Jan 2021 #4
Seems this would have been inevitable. Fox has to take rabid trump fuckery even further... Thomas Hurt Jan 2021 #6
Chris Wallace edhopper Jan 2021 #7
Yuck. nt Quixote1818 Jan 2021 #8

hedda_foil

(16,371 posts)
3. Faux has the deepest pockets and the biggest investment in duping the chumps.
Tue Jan 19, 2021, 08:12 PM
Jan 2021

They're not giving up their hand-fed audience after all this time and tending.

ProfessorGAC

(64,988 posts)
5. Their Pockets Are WAY Deeper
Tue Jan 19, 2021, 08:26 PM
Jan 2021

Faux is rooted in a $17billion corporation. D/E is around 0.8. Pretty strong financial position.
When the idiot kid made noise about buying OAN, the price bandied about was $250 million. Experts said that was 40% too high.
So, NC is approaching 100 times the size of the pipsqueak OAN.
I've never seen actual valuation of newsmax.

Thomas Hurt

(13,903 posts)
6. Seems this would have been inevitable. Fox has to take rabid trump fuckery even further...
Tue Jan 19, 2021, 08:27 PM
Jan 2021

to retake their market share.

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