Fox News released a statement on Wednesday blasting “left wing activists” who took to Twitter and reported that the network planned to fire prime time host
Laura Ingraham after Matt Drudge’s eponymous news aggregation site reported on a prime time shake-up at the network.
The Drudge Report dropped a siren-blaring headline on Wednesday morning, teasing major scheduling changes at the long-dominant cable news network. The site eventually reported that
Sean Hannity would take over
Tucker Carlson’s old 8 p.m. time slot and that hosts
Jesse Watters and
Greg Gutfeld would also be moved to prime time.
A Fox News spokesperson reacted to Drudge’s report by
telling Mediaite, “No decision has been made on a new primetime line-up and there are multiple scenarios under consideration.”