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By Brian Koerber @ Mashable.com, 7 hrs. ago
[....] Ralph Peters, a retired Lt. Col. for the army and until recently a Fox News strategic analyst, decided to leave his post at the station after finally having a moment of clarity.
Peters' departure was first reported by BuzzFeed News, which obtained a copy of an email announcing his departure and detailing his reasoning to his colleagues.
"Today, I feel that Fox News is assaulting our constitutional order and the rule of law, while fostering corrosive and unjustified paranoia among viewers," Peters wrote in the email. "Over my decade with Fox, I long was proud of the association. Now I am ashamed." Peters continued by saying he thought that Fox News "degenerated from providing a legitimate and much-needed outlet for conservative voices to a mere propaganda machine for a destructive and ethically ruinous administration."
Hard to believe it took him this long to realize it, but be assured he hasn't had a total change of heart [....]
Comments
Resignation hits Fox hard.
by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 03/22/2018 - 7:53am
Thanks. There's a war going on over there and it interests me. (And I think it should interest anyone interested in journalism.) It's mentioned in the article, i.e.
by artappraiser on Thu, 03/22/2018 - 8:01am
Just ran across this, strikes me as related:
Jeffrey Toobin to his former professor Alan Dershowitz: ‘What’s happened to you?’
By Derek Hawkins @ WashingtonPost.com, March 22
Although there, Toobin might have been blind about how much of an advocacy trial lawyer Prof. Dershowitz was in his heart. Where when he was teaching he was just role playing cold legal analyst?
by artappraiser on Thu, 03/22/2018 - 10:05am
Shep got a long "but it was already planned, honest" vacation for his comments.
And yeah, Dershowitz has become a knee-jerk predictable attack dog in a number of ways - once he had a bit of credibility. Still cracking up at the idea of those Olson twins once being adults in the room though...
by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 03/22/2018 - 10:09am
Why I left Fox News
Guest op-ed by Ralph Peters @ WashingtonPost.com, March 30
by artappraiser on Sat, 03/31/2018 - 12:08am