TV News LIES

Fox News' chief anchor Shepard Smith, who has long reported critically on President Donald Trump and his administration, is resigning from Fox after 23 years with the network.

Jay Wallace, the president of Fox Media, said Friday was Smith's last day on the job in a memo published by The Daily Beast's Max Tani.

Smith announced that he resigned from his post even as Fox asked him to stay on.

This comes weeks after Smith exchanged on-air barbs with fellow Fox host Tucker Carlson over Smith's coverage of Trump's Ukraine scandal.

TVNL Comment: Good luck in whatever you choose to do, Shepard Smith.  You've been true to yourself, and never became part of the lies and distortions that characterized Fox News.

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President Donald Trump on Saturday took aim at two Washington Post reporters, saying they “shouldn’t even be allowed” at the White House following a story critical of the administration’s record.

“The Washington Post’s @PhilipRucker (Mr. Off the Record) & @AshleyRParker, two nasty lightweight reporters, shouldn’t even be allowed on the grounds of the White House because their reporting is so DISGUSTING & FAKE,” the president tweeted at 7:09 a.m.

ThinkProgress, the influential news site that rose to prominence in the shadow of the Bush administration and helped define progressivism during the Obama years, is shutting down.

The outlet, which served as an editorially independent project of the Democratic Party think tank Center for American Progress, will stop current operations on Friday and be converted into a site where CAP scholars can post. Top officials at CAP had been searching for a buyer to take over ThinkProgress, which has run deficits for years, and according to sources there were potentially three serious buyers in the mix recently.

But in a statement to staff, Navin Nayak, the executive director of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, said the site was ultimately unable to secure a patron.

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A judge has blocked the White House’s decision to revoke the press pass of Playboy correspondent Brian Karem over a Rose Garden showdown in July with former White House aide Sebastian Gorka.

U.S. District Court Judge Rudolph Contreras issued a decision Tuesday evening granting a preliminary injunction restoring Karem’s so-called “hard pass” on the grounds that the reporter had no clear notice of the rules governing press behavior at events like the presidential appearance that preceded the heated exchange.

The "Justice with Judge Jeanine" host was caught criticizing her show's network, admitting Fox News had suspended her, and she is worried she is on thin ice.

The comments came as cameras rolled during the 68-year-old's Tuesday appearance on Sebastian Gorka's show on Salem Radio Network. Gorka, a former Fox News contributor, told Pirro between segments he'd love to have her on his show again in the near future.

"We'll see if they let me. You know, Fox reviews everything. They’re unbelievable," she remarked, though Gorka had cautioned Pirro earlier, "we're still live."

Pirro, who mentioned she had an appearance on longtime Fox News host Sean Hannity's program Tuesday night, said the network was holding her back from other appearances.

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