In December of last year, veteran journalist Chris Wallace stunned the media world by leaving Fox News after 18 years to join CNN+ — CNN’s news streaming service that launches this week.
Wallace’s decision to leave felt like a major blow to Fox News. Not only is Wallace a solid journalist with a good reputation, he was someone Fox News would hold up whenever it was slammed for having a right-wing agenda or crossing journalistic lines of objectivity. Every time Fox News was called out for something incredulous said on air, you would hear, “Yeah, but what about Chris Wallace?”
In some ways, Wallace just being on the network provided some cover for Fox News.
Now Wallace has broken his silence about why he left Fox News, and it’s pretty much what you expected. He told The New York Times’ Michael M. Grynbaum, “I just no longer felt comfortable with the programming at Fox.”
Wallace went on to explain, “I’m fine with opinion: conservative opinion, liberal opinion. But when people start to question the truth — Who won the 2020 election? Was Jan. 6 an insurrection? — I found that unsustainable.”
The interview with the Times is Wallace’s first extensive one about why he left Fox News. He said he felt good about being at Fox News all the way until November 2020 — when Donald Trump lost the election. Of course, one could reasonably argue that Fox News’ political leanings, especially in prime time, were evident well before the 2020 election.
Even Wallace admits that.
“Some people might have drawn the line earlier, or at a different point,” Wallace told the Times, adding, “I think Fox has changed over the course of the last year and a half. But I can certainly understand where somebody would say, ‘Gee, you were a slow learner, Chris.’”
Wallace revealed that he did complain to management at Fox News about Tucker Carlson’s “Patriot Purge” series on Fox Nation — Fox News’ streaming service.
Certainly, Fox News’ overall ratings have not taken a hit since Wallace left. There probably are even some Fox News viewers who are fine with Wallace leaving, given that he simply isn’t a mouthpiece for Trump.
As far as Wallace? His new show hasn’t started yet, but he told Grynbaum that since his exit, “there has not been a moment when I have second-guessed myself about that decision.”
chris Wallace has always been a leftist twit rather than arguing a point of veiw he doesn’t agree with he takes his marbles and goes home
AMEN!!!!
Chris is a TOOL of the New World DISORDER—
Good Riddance. He showed his true colors during Debate. Someone called him a leftist Twit! I call him a Leftist turd!
LOSER!!!!!
Chris Wallace used to be clear thinking but now something has happened. Anyone who thinks that 1/6 was an attempt to take over the USG is batty
Wallace never played fair with the truth when a conservative was on. He lied like the best liberals.
i stopped watching Wallace about two years ago one could only see he was a democrat with no brains
The best thing that has ever happened so far for Fox News is when Chris Wallace quit! He is a Leftist-Socialist demigod.
Recognized a number of years ago that Wallace was not the vindicated journalist that he pretended to be. When he asked Trump.” to disavow white supremacists during the first presidential debate of the 2020 election” he showed his true colors (a leftist stooge). Trump had repeatedly disavowed them many times previously.
Why waste the time if your comment is not shown after making the effort to respond????
If Mike Wallace had been a doctor my guess is Chrissy would have been a proctologist, but with Mike being a journalist. Chrissy has to settle with pretending he has an audience on CNN.
Wallace is phony journalist that always tried to ride his fathers coattails! Good riddance!!!
I agree, Chris Wallace is certainly unsustainable. And a horses patute!
Glad to see him gone. He is an obvious leftist try to pretend he’s objective. Now that his twin Juan Williams is gone too all I can say is oh happy day. Not that I really watch much of fox anymore. They are nothing like they used to be. I switched to newsmax after the election.