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Meanwhile At Fox News

Slate News

Slate Podcasts

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2019

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

There have been indications of discord at Fox News -- tension between the news division and the more opinion-driven shows on the network. Shepard Smith and Tucker Carlson hashed out their differences on air. And then, Smith submitted his resignation to the network. Is the impeachment inquiry changing the message coming from Fox News?

Guest: Justin Peters, writer for Slate


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0:00.0

Justin, how much Fox News do you watch?

0:08.2

I keep tabs on the network. I watch it quite a bit of the time.

0:12.2

Justin Peters is Slate's television guinea pig.

0:15.6

Did you start watching for Slate, like as an assignment?

0:19.7

Yeah, I did. I blame Slate for putting me in this place. It was back in 2017, I think,

0:28.6

where they had me, what, nothing but Fox for three straight weeks.

0:39.1

It almost broke my brain.

0:53.7

I recovered after a while, but that was my first sort of straight through 24-7, wake up, turn on Fox, go to bed, turn off Fox, dream about Neil Cavuto, which is weird, you know, wake up and do it all again for three straight weeks.

1:00.3

Justin's done this kind of thing before.

1:06.2

One time, Slate had him watch every Super Bowl that had ever been played in a single month.

1:09.3

I've hated football ever since, and I love football.

1:14.4

But Justin keeps coming back to Fox.

1:17.5

He's watched hundreds of hours at this point.

1:26.2

I confess to having a guilty pleasure watch in the show The Five, which airs at 5 p.m.

1:31.7

It has five people on it. They sometimes discuss as many as five topics per show.

1:39.3

Hunter Biden giving his side of the story for the first time in a new interview, just hours before his dad takes center stage at tonight's Democratic debate.

1:45.1

I'm not sure where it got its name, but it's an entertaining show.

1:58.0

It's got this sort of great fox mix of very stupid people, very funny people, very put upon left-wing commentators.

2:00.6

I could watch it all day. It gets my blood pressure boiling. And how did Sleepy Joe not know about the foreign influence through his son? And she didn't get to that.

2:07.6

At least it's a lively panel show. It's the best panel show that's on Fox.

2:12.6

Sounds like you almost look forward to it.

2:14.6

Yeah, I do. It cuts the doldrums.

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