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But it also means we can't afford to come up short when it comes to scratching together the funds it takes to keep our team firing on all cylinders, and the truth is, we finished our budgeting cycle on June 30 about $100,000 short of our online goal. We've never been very good at being conservative.Īnd usually, that serves us well in doing the ambitious, hard-hitting journalism that you turn to Mother Jones for. 6 an insurrection?-I found that unsustainable.”īy signing up, you agree to our privacy policy and terms of use, and to receive messages from Mother Jones and our partners. “But when people start to question the truth-Who won the 2020 election? Was Jan. “I’m fine with opinion: conservative opinion, liberal opinion,” Wallace said. Not that it seemed to have mattered much. 6 Capitol riot was a “false flag” operation intended to demonize conservatives-that he complained directly to Fox News management. Carlson’s documentary “Patriot Purge” - which falsely suggested the Jan. He confirmed reports that he was so alarmed by Mr. newscast, fired the political editor who helped project a Trump loss in Arizona on election night and promoted hosts like Mr. Trump’s defeat in 2020-a period when the channel ended its 7 p.m. Wallace also acknowledged that he felt a shift at Fox News in the months after Donald J. The 74-year-old anchor did not retire from journalism, however, but instead moved to rival network CNN, where his new daily talk show, “Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace?” will debut this coming week. But I can certainly understand where somebody would say, ‘Gee, you were a slow learner, Chris.’” “I think Fox has changed over the course of the last year and a half. “Some people might have drawn the line earlier, or at a different point,” he acknowledged. “I just no longer felt comfortable with the programming at Fox,” Wallace said in his interview. Especially in contrast with his colleagues, Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson, who became more stridently right-wing during the years of Donald Trump’s presidency. Moderating presidential debates and hosting the network’s flagship political talk show “Fox News Sunday,” he was considered a more middle-of-the-road presence. Wallace brought to Fox News a certain degree of journalistic gravitas throughout his tenure. “And since November of 2020, that just became unsustainable, increasingly unsustainable as time went on.” “Before, I found it was an environment in which I could do my job and feel good about my involvement at Fox,” Wallace told media correspondent Michael Grynbaum. In a wide-ranging interview with the New York Times, former Fox News anchor Chris Wallace explained his decision to leave the conservative network last December after 18 years.
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