Former Fox News Political Editor Chris Stirewalt is promoting his book Broken News: Why the Media Rage Machine Divides America and How to Fight Back, and he appeared on NewsNation, his current employer, Thursday to discuss the state of cable news in America.
“It comes down to human nature and laziness,” Stirewalt said. “The reality is the shortest distance between a news organization and profit is anger, fear, and that stuff. Tabloids — The National Enquirer or whatever else — are money making enterprises. They know something. Which is shoddy, cheap, salacious, tantalizing, and usually biased journalism is very attractive. And it’s cheap, too.
“Unlike what we’re trying to do here at NewsNation, where we’re gonna rely on serious journalists, people doing hard work, shoe leather reporting. Out in the field and doing that kind of stuff. Instead of that, you put a couple of chuckleheads in a studio somewhere and let them bark at each other. As the saying goes in TV news ‘Talk is cheap’. This book — I hope, I pray ‘Lord, hear our prayer’– is a call for people to understand we have special obligations as American journalists and we have special obligations as American news consumers to try a little harder and want a little better.”
Stirewalt was dismissed from Fox News in January of 2021. He claims it was because the decision desk made the call on the 2020 Presidential Race of Joe Biden before any other network.
Fox News told BNM “Chris Stirewalt’s endless attempts at regaining relevance know no bounds.”
