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Chris Stirewalt: ‘Who Gets Fired’ At Fox News?

After Fox News settled its defamation lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems, former network political editor Chris Stirewalt openly questioned who would get the axe from the conservative cable channel.

During an interview with Semafor’s Max Tani after the settlement was announced, Stirewalt wondered what the next steps were for Fox News.

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“The part that I’m interested in seeing is: What does the apology sound like? Who gets fired? What are the consequences inside the company?” Stirewalt asked. “It will be interesting to see what new approach they take.”

Stirewalt exited the company after he was part of the network’s decision desk team that projected now President Joe Biden had won the state of Arizona on election night 2020. The call, which was ultimately correct, was viewed as premature by other news networks and was wildly unpopular in conservative circles, as well as then President Trump’s inner circle.

Fox News has maintained Stirewalt was not fired, but was reassigned inside the organization as part of a “restructuring” that also saw Washington Bureau Chief Bill Sammon “retire”.

However, messages sent between Fox News executives and Rupert Murdoch — uncovered during Dominion’s evidence-gathering phase — appear to show the network did in fact fire Sammon and Stirewalt for their roles in calling Arizona for Biden.

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Stirewalt — author of the book Broken News: Why the Media Rage Machine Divides America and How to Fight Back — had previously shared that it “felt good to be vindicated” after the messages were revealed. He added that he and Sammon knew they were “isolated” inside the company, but the documents proved his feelings correct.

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