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Greta Leaves Fox News

ModerateGOP said:
He gets a lot from his gig at Fox News too, he'll have to say it's a calling to serve, which he has said he would do if the message and guy was right. But if they kick him out anyway?? He'll have no choice, that or move on to Trump's News Network I believe he'll fully intend to launch if he loses.
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Fox News Channel host Bill O’Reilly hinted at retiring from his nightly TV show in a new interview with Adweek.

“I don’t know. I go day to day. I don’t want to work this hard much longer,” O’Reilly told Adweek when asked how much longer he wants to host a nightly program. “I know that. Because I work hard. I earn my money.”
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Bill O'Reilly Hints at Retirement: 'I Don't Want to Work This Hard Much Longer'

I have seen other claims that he is for sure leaving soon, it is just a matter of when.
 
I'm no Fox fan, but I do watch.

Putting my personal animosities with the organization aside, Greta just never worked for me as news personality. Just nothing about her I like.
 
Rico Suave said:
Hannity needs the money and has no other realistic home so he will stay.
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Agreed.

O'liely is on a short leash being a known beater of women and a sexual harasser plus he's old and expensive. He's gone in short order.
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Disagree - he's their premier mouthpiece, and the centerpiece of the network. But he is very expensive, as you said.

Brett Baire is an attractive target for CNN
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Never thought of it that way, but you may be right.

Doucy is old and a sexual harasser so he's gone

Killmeade is stupid but may survive
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Don't follow morning here, so can't comment.

Shep probably wants out and would be picked up
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Sounds plausible. I always though Shep's too balanced for Fox.

Megyn will get a ton of cash thrown out of her. She'll stay.
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Definitely will get cash thrown at her, and very possibly will stay, but she did pass on CNN earlier for the Fox money. I'm not sure if she damaged her MSN credibility as a Fox opinionist in the interim, but my gut feeling says she's not happy at Fox. My gut says she has or will develop integrity issues them.

Most of the women have no place else to go and will stay
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Agreed. Most of the women IMO seem to have been hired for their legs, rather than their journalistic chops - sad to say.
 
Chomsky said:
I'm no Fox fan, but I do watch.

Putting my personal animosities with the organization aside, Greta just never worked for me as news personality. Just nothing about her I like.
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Setting aside her adulation of Rush Slimebaugh and Palin she always seems to be gritting her teeth bugs the heck out of me.
 
Chomsky said:
I'm no Fox fan, but I do watch.

Putting my personal animosities with the organization aside, Greta just never worked for me as news personality. Just nothing about her I like.
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Years ago I used to watch her. It all seemed so pro-forma, her asking predictable questions never in a very interesting way, and without any personal insights to add. There should be a picture of her in the dictionary under "mediocrity". Her entire career seems to have been powered by the shear luck of OJ, and being the token not good looking woman on the set. She reminds me of some of the people I worked for in military contracting, people in high positions only because they had the right career blocks checked needed to get in, they looked good on paper, not because they ever added anything to the quality of the production.

NOTE: I am a former cable news junkie who has not watched hardly any TV in years, and have rarely ever watched FOXNEWS, it might be that later in her career she changed.
 
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Hawkeye10 said:
Years ago I used to watch her. It all seemed so pro-forma, her asking predictable questions never in a very interesting way, and without any personal insights to add. There should be a picture of her in the dictionary under "mediocrity". Her entire career seems to have been powered by the shear luck of OJ, and being the token not good looking woman on the set. She reminds me of some of the people I worked for in military contracting, people in high positions only because they had the right career blocks checked needed to get in, they looked good on paper, not because they ever added anything to the quality of the production.

NOTE: I am a former cable news junkie who has not watched hardly any TV in years, and have rarely ever watched FOXNEWS, it might be that later in her career she changed.
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I think your description of her is pretty good, except I've got to add:

Baby, she has got a grating voice!

Her and Hillary. Something about their voices I can't stand.
 
“Yes, I have left the Fox News Channel. On Thursday night, I made my decision and informed Fox News of my decision that I was leaving Fox News Channel per my contract. Fox has not felt like home to me for a few years and I took advantage of the clause in my contract which allows me to leave now. The clause had a time limitation, meaning I could not wait. I love my staff, I love my colleagues, and I love the crews. That is the hardest part of this decision as they are wonderful people. And most of all? I love the viewers — even the ones who have gotten mad at me over the years and taken swipes. I hope to continue my career in broadcasting.”
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Greta Van Susteren releases statement upon leaving Fox News | EW.com

A fricking written statement, yet she cant stay consistent from one sentence to the next.

MEDIOCRITY.
 
Chomsky said:
Agreed.

Disagree - he's their premier mouthpiece, and the centerpiece of the network. But he is very expensive, as you said.

Never thought of it that way, but you may be right.

Don't follow morning here, so can't comment.

Sounds plausible. I always though Shep's too balanced for Fox.

Definitely will get cash thrown at her, and very possibly will stay, but she did pass on CNN earlier for the Fox money. I'm not sure if she damaged her MSN credibility as a Fox opinionist in the interim, but my gut feeling says she's not happy at Fox. My gut says she has or will develop integrity issues them.

Agreed. Most of the women IMO seem to have been hired for their legs, rather than their journalistic chops - sad to say.
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So degrees from Columbia in journo and Emmys and other broadcasting awards don't count, only legs?

Liz Trotta: Liz Trotta | Fox News
Heather Nauert: Heather Nauert | Fox News
Ellen Ratner: Ellen Ratner | Fox News
Abby Huntsman: Abby Huntsman | Fox News
Cheryl Casone: Cheryl Casone | Fox News
Amy Kellogg: http://www.foxnews.com/person/k/amy-kellogg.html
Judith Miller: http://www.foxnews.com/person/m/judith-miller.html

Too lazy to list more, so here's a complete list: http://www.foxnews.com/person/personalities.html
 
cabse5 said:
Dana Perino? Nah. She is a Bush shill.
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She's not pugnacious, unlike most folks on that network, actually has served government in a high capacity (and isn't an overblown ego moving from one cliche ghostwritten book after another), and gives fairly balanced commentary.

She's just what the network needs.
 
Chomsky said:
I think your description of her is pretty good, except I've got to add:

Baby, she has got a grating voice!

Her and Hillary. Something about their voices I can't stand.
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I always liked her. Perhaps she was drawn to the material she presented, but I thought she had the temperament and the chops to do more serious work than what she was assigned.
 
ModerateGOP said:
Yeah I think Rove is brilliant and deserves more respect than he gets. However, he just looks awkward on TV and his 2012 failings isn't helping his or Fox News' brand. I'm not sure where his allegiances are in this whole Fox News debacle. But he'd be just fine on his own.

BTW, Krauthammer is definitely staying. He is about the only balanced person on the network these days and isn't in the tank for Trump. They haven't kicked him out by now, so I assume he is safe. Perhaps being groomed for his own show? Although, I am not certain that will go over well. He's kinda boring and best suited for a five minute segment.
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He should be a free agent. I know that a lot of lefties still hate Rove, but I think that's a stupid attitude. Look at him like we do James Carville or David Axelrod: learn from the man.

As far as Kraut is concerned, I think he lost some of the edge in being biting toward the GOP--that is, until Trump. A lot of the folks Kraut worked with (and this includes Kraut himself), they had slightly heterodox intellectual viewpoints that were very much needed.
 
Fiddytree said:
I always liked her. Perhaps she was drawn to the material she presented, but I thought she had the temperament and the chops to do more serious work than what she was assigned.
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Does cable news ever do more serious work?

This is a serious question.

Seriously.
 
Jack Hays said:
Britt Hume will take over her time slot. That's an upgrade.
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To any news group, IMO. I've been a fan since Hume's ABC reporting days.
 
Hawkeye10 said:
Does cable news ever do more serious work?

This is a serious question.

Seriously.
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Nope.

It needs to be as dry as PBS Newshour (not some of its views or its focus on poetry, but the tone itself) or C-SPAN for it to be any good.
 
Fiddytree said:
Nope.

It needs to be as dry as PBS Newshour (not some of its views or its focus on poetry, but the tone itself) or C-SPAN for it to be any good.
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Newshour and Nightline were once very very good. Not the same but I was also a fanatic about watching Charlie Rose and Tom Snyder.



EDIT: Of course Brian Lamb is my all time fav interviewer. Is there anyone out there other than Charlie Rose who is at least half the interviewer Lamb was?

Greta VS is MAYBE a 20%er.

On a very good day.

Hume is better.

:prof
 
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ModerateGOP said:
And so the beginning of the end. The first major Fox News host has left the network after the Roger Ailes scandal. Who will follow?

Greta Van Susteren leaving Fox News - Sep. 6, 2016
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I am not sure CNN is an accurate source about their chief competitor. I would no more believe CNN than Fox News on this issue. I would like to know where she is going and will wait for more information from her rather than a bunch of conjecture from a network that is questionable at best.

I like Greta ever since she started with CNN.
 
NonoBadDog said:
I am not sure CNN is an accurate source about their chief competitor. I would no more believe CNN than Fox News on this issue. I would like to know where she is going and will wait for more information from her rather than a bunch of conjecture from a network that is questionable at best.

I like Greta ever since she started with CNN.
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MSNBC is a nobrainer....if they can afford her, if they have a spot for her.
 
nota bene said:
So degrees from Columbia in journo and Emmys and other broadcasting awards don't count, only legs?

Liz Trotta: Liz Trotta | Fox News
Heather Nauert: Heather Nauert | Fox News
Ellen Ratner: Ellen Ratner | Fox News
Abby Huntsman: Abby Huntsman | Fox News
Cheryl Casone: Cheryl Casone | Fox News
Amy Kellogg: http://www.foxnews.com/person/k/amy-kellogg.html
Judith Miller: http://www.foxnews.com/person/m/judith-miller.html

Too lazy to list more, so here's a complete list: http://www.foxnews.com/person/personalities.html
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I'm at a disadvantage here, because I don't particularly follow the morning personalities, live reporting, or file reporters - and was speaking specifically of their daytime and evening anchor and co-anchor level personalities.

I will admit the bios of those you selected do appear pretty legit.

But I was speaking to personalities like Kimberly Guilfoyle, for instance.

On paper she appears extremely legit even having a JD and having been a prosecutor. But when watching her on-air, she comes across as a partisan emotive dimwit.

And Andrea Tantaros never struck me as much better.

Fox may have great women doing field reporting and managing their desks (maybe - I don't know), but too many of their in-house opinion personalities come off as leggy bimbos. Are they more than that? Perhaps. But for some reason, it doesn't come through to the viewer.

They often come across as highly emotive teenage girls, lacking in substantive maturity and the ability to rationally reason through their stories or commentary, flying down errant logic paths like they have ADD.

Maybe it's just the Fox shtick.

But it doesn't strike me as legit news.
 
Hawkeye10 said:
MSNBC is a nobrainer....if they can afford her, if they have a spot for her.
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I'm not sure she would chose to go there. Maybe NBC or CNBC. I am not sure her and Maddow could get along.
 
Chomsky said:
I'm at a disadvantage here, because I don't particularly follow the morning personalities, live reporting, or file reporters - and was speaking specifically of their daytime and evening anchor and co-anchor level personalities.

I will admit the bios of those you selected do appear pretty legit.

But I was speaking to personalities like Kimberly Guilfoyle, for instance.

On paper she appears extremely legit even having a JD and having been a prosecutor. But when watching her on-air, she comes across as a partisan emotive dimwit.

And Andrea Tantaros never struck me as much better.

Fox may have great women doing field reporting and managing their desks (maybe - I don't know), but too many of their in-house opinion personalities come off as leggy bimbos. Are they more than that? Perhaps. But for some reason, it doesn't come through to the viewer.

They often come across as highly emotive teenage girls, lacking in substantive maturity and the ability to rationally reason through their stories or commentary, flying down errant logic paths like they have ADD.

Maybe it's just the Fox shtick.

But it doesn't strike me as legit news.
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Perhaps the problem is your own bias?
 
Fiddytree said:
He should be a free agent. I know that a lot of lefties still hate Rove, but I think that's a stupid attitude. Look at him like we do James Carville or David Axelrod: learn from the man.

As far as Kraut is concerned, I think he lost some of the edge in being biting toward the GOP--that is, until Trump. A lot of the folks Kraut worked with (and this includes Kraut himself), they had slightly heterodox intellectual viewpoints that were very much needed.
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I am a big Krauthammer fan, even if our ideologies are often different. He stops me in my tracks the way David Gergen does, and Dr. Kissinger too.

Give me those moderately-spoken, cynically logical old hard-assed guys anyday!

You know they've got something important to say, because when they calmly talk in a measured moderate manner, everyone else in the room that was earlier shouting - shuts-up!

That's the sign of respect.

These guys never need to get emotive, bombastic, or even intone their voices, because their calm measured speech has content. Content. I'll say it again, "content".

And one can learn from them ...
 
Chomsky said:
I'm at a disadvantage here, because I don't particularly follow the morning personalities, live reporting, or file reporters - and was speaking specifically of their daytime and evening anchor and co-anchor level personalities.

I will admit the bios of those you selected do appear pretty legit.

But I was speaking to personalities like Kimberly Guilfoyle, for instance.

On paper she appears extremely legit even having a JD and having been a prosecutor. But when watching her on-air, she comes across as a partisan emotive dimwit.

And Andrea Tantaros never struck me as much better.

Fox may have great women doing field reporting and managing their desks (maybe - I don't know), but too many of their in-house opinion personalities come off as leggy bimbos. Are they more than that? Perhaps. But for some reason, it doesn't come through to the viewer.

They often come across as highly emotive teenage girls, lacking in substantive maturity and the ability to rationally reason through their stories or commentary, flying down errant logic paths like they have ADD.

Maybe it's just the Fox shtick.

But it doesn't strike me as legit news.
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If you're u want to see teenage girls check out outnumbered. Good lord it's horrible
 
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