{"id":39242,"date":"2019-10-11T22:58:54","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T22:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=39242"},"modified":"2019-10-11T22:58:54","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T22:58:54","slug":"shepard-smith-leaves-fox-news-but-how-did-it-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=39242","title":{"rendered":"Shepard Smith leaves Fox News &#8230; but how did it happen?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=fakenews%20%23FoxNews%20%23ShepardSmith%20%23MAGA%20%23POTUS&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/shepard-smith.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-39243\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/shepard-smith-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/shepard-smith-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/shepard-smith-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/shepard-smith.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s see if we can connect a few dots regarding Shepard Smith&#8217;s stunning departure as a lead anchor on the Fox News Channel.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Smith went on the air and bid farewell, thanking Fox for giving him the opportunity of a lifetime.<\/li>\n<li>He has been critical of Donald Trump, while the network that employed him became a presidential favorite.<\/li>\n<li>Smith&#8217;s departure apparently caught his colleagues by surprise. Business news anchor Neil Cavuto was stunned into speechlessness.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My thoughts: Was the anchor&#8217;s departure totally of his own volition? Was it totally as he presented it today on the air? I&#8217;m just asking here.<\/p>\n<p>There seems to be a good bit more to this story than we&#8217;ve been told.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever. Shepard Smith is a pro. He&#8217;s a first-class broadcast journalist. I am almost willing to bet real American money he ends up on another broadcast\/cable network \u2026 soon!<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=fakenews%20%23FoxNews%20%23ShepardSmith%20%23MAGA%20%23POTUS&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s see if we can connect a few dots regarding Shepard Smith&#8217;s stunning departure as a lead anchor on the Fox News Channel. Smith went on the air and bid farewell, thanking Fox for giving him the opportunity of a lifetime. He has been critical of Donald Trump, while the network that employed him became &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=39242\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Shepard Smith leaves Fox News &#8230; but how did it happen?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1424,1788,4252],"class_list":["post-39242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-news","tag-shepard-smith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39244,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39242\/revisions\/39244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}