Tensions are flaring between anchors like Shepard Smith and opinionators like Tucker Carlson.
on Thursday afternoon, though he noted that "Fox News spokesperson Irena Briganti denied that management had any direct conversation with Smith."that "Suzanne Scott and Jay Wallace never spoke to Shep about anything to do with Tucker Carlson and there was never any discussion of taking him off the air.
There's always been a gap between the network's news and opinion wings, but people who appear on Fox News tellA television news executive who closely watches the company agreed, saying that the gap "is definitely getting wider." This person added, "I think it's gotten much more difficult for the actual journalists to operate under the legacy explanation of news plus opinion.
Carl Cameron, who spent 20 years at Fox News and left as the network's chief political correspondent, said he used to take the brunt of the opinion wing. "I was routinely roughed up by the primetime hosts," he said. "It was clear that the entertainment side was at odds with the news department only if you lived in the middle of it."
In a conversation on Friday, Cameron took issue with Carlson's commentary about Smith and Napolitano, and also expressed reservations about the combative way left-leaning Fox News contributor Juan Williams was treated by his fellow panelists on"I don't think anybody would object to having a disagreement, but that type of behavior is kind of thuggish," he said. "Haven't we had enough of that? It's not necessary.
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