‘Unexpectedly’: Former Fox Anchor Shepard Smith’s CNBC Show Is A Ratings Dumpster Fire

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As a wise and insightful person I know (cough Professor Jacobson cough) noted, Shep “was successful because he was on Fox, Fox wasn’t successful because of him.” This observation reminded me of McLean Stevenson’s post-MAS*H reflection: “The mistake [in leaving the show] was that I thought everybody in America loved McLean Stevenson. That was not the case. Everybody loved Henry Blake. So if you go and do The McLean Stevenson Show, nobody cares about McLean Stevenson.”

The problem with Shep, of course, is that no one loved Shep on Fox; his ratings came from his being on Fox and hosting the only somewhat straight news show during a time slot the woke media was busy being woke (thus turning off all viewers who weren’t woke, approximately 70% of the population).
The Daily Beast, apparently unintentionally, pinpoints the problem in a bizarre paragraph that undermines its own argument (a feat that is actually both difficult to accomplish if you are thinking clearly and very easy if you are a partisan hack).

For one, much of Smith’s allure in the final years of his Fox News tenure may have come from his status as seemingly the only daily hard-news anchor at the network, where he often provided scathing fact-checks of his conservative colleagues and seemed alien to the network’s editorial focus on right-wing outrages of the day. Without that tension, the veteran news anchor blends in with a crowded field of consummate news reporters.

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One cannot be a “hard-news anchor” and simultaneously be lauded for providing “scathing fact-checks of his conservative colleagues.” You are either hard-news or a partisan hack; you can’t be both. The “tension” Shep’s hackery presented as “hard news” produced was intentional, and it turned off Fox viewers who, quite rightly, deemed him a leftist hack.

Professor Jacobson noted as much in his post about Shep leaving Fox:

Shepard Smith just announced that he is resigning from Fox News effective immediately.

I can’t say I’m surprised.

Shep became unwatchable, barely containing his Trump hatred. I tuned in the other day, a rare occurrence, but turned the channel to the more reasonable MSNBC — at least there you know what you are getting. My few minutes of Shep was non-stop snark and snide comments.

Shep also has teamed with Andrew Napolitano to promote impeachment and to attack Tucker Carlson and other evening lineup stars.

'Unexpectedly': Former Fox Anchor Shepard Smith's CNBC Show Is A Ratings Dumpster Fire

Why is anyone surprised no one is watching Shep?

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[herb749]

These networks need to realize their viewers are not accepting these former people from Fox. All the happy cheering about getting someone to leave Fox then comes with the reality of they still don't like them. If they don't become the liberal shills they like to watch they have no use for them.

 

[Kyle]

These networks need to realize their viewers are not accepting these former people from Fox. All the happy cheering about getting someone to leave Fox then comes with the reality of they still don't like them. If they don't become the liberal shills they like to watch they have no use for them.

Maybe he, Megyn Kelly and Greta, can start a support group.

 

[herb749]

Maybe he, Megyn Kelly and Greta, can start a support group.

There's 2 more the left didn't accept .

 

[Kyle]

CNBC cancels 'The News with Shepard Smith' to refocus on business news

CNBC has canceled "The News with Shepard Smith" after two years as CNBC's 7 p.m. ET general news program.

www.cnbc.com