Compton, the former head of Tribune Media’s programming department who is now the president of Nexstar’s networks division. Nexstar also gained an executive in the deal: Mr. Nexstar, a public company, became the nation’s largest local TV operator in 2018, when it bought Tribune Media, the television arm of the Tribune Company, for $4.1 billion. In the process, the TV host transformed Fox News and became Donald Trump’s heir.

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Six people at the network, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to reveal internal discussions, said “NewsNation” has increasingly become a venue for right-wing views.Ī Nexstar spokesman had no comment on the resignations and said that NewsNation had “a commitment to deliver unbiased news to our viewers.” In recent weeks, the news director and managing editor have resigned. But now, six months after its debut, “NewsNation” has abysmal ratings and disaffected staff members who say it has not lived up to Mr. “‘News Nation’ will deliver exactly that.”Įager journalists from across the country signed on, some of them moving with their families from far away. He laid out the show’s mission in a January 2020 statement: “We consistently hear from viewers who are seeking straight-ahead, unbiased news reporting that is grounded in fact, not opinion,” Mr. Its development was overseen by Sean Compton, a top executive at Nexstar Media Group, which owns WGN America. The show made its debut in September on WGN America, a Chicago cable channel available in roughly 75 million households across the country. Unlike the prime-time shows on CNN, Fox News and MSNBC filled with partisan monologues and fiery discussions, “NewsNation” would serve up unbiased news reports in a straightforward manner. “We have a lot of video, and in the post-truth world that Donald Trump inhabits and his supporters inhabit and people on cable news television that want to defend him inhabit, this video is held by millions and millions of people especially because of social media.Last summer, a staff of more than 150 people started putting together “NewsNation,” a three-hour prime-time cable news show that was billed as a throwback to the just-the-facts news programs of TV’s golden age. We call this ‘video,’” Scarborough began. “Do you know what you call this - what we’re watching right now? It’s a technical term, so, for those of you not in television I can understand why you’ve never heard what we call this.

‘Fox & Friends’: Republican Senator Endorses Protests for Trump, But ‘Don’t Be a Knucklehead and Riot’ (Video) Scarborough jumped in as the video from Jan. In my view, it’s in the national interest, in prosecuting these cases, we call it what it was.” “January 6 was the very definition of an insurrection. “There’s something to be said for investigating and possibly prosecuting not just those who took to the streets, not just those who broke into the Capitol Building, but those who incited the insurrection,” he said. 6 protests, the string of new arrests that have been made as a result of the insurrection and now Trump’s call to protest his potential arrest. “Morning Joe” had the former secretary of Homeland Security, Jeh Johnson, join the panel Tuesday to discuss the Jan. ‘Morning Joe’ Says McCarthy’s Defense of Trump, Protests ‘Defies Logic’: ‘Can Completely Ignore That Part of Trump’s Legacy’ (Video)

Following former president Donald Trump’s call for protests over the weekend under the presumption that he will be arrested Tuesday, New York City and the NYPD have been put on guard for protestors and potential violence in the case of an indictment from the Manhattan DA.īut for those Trump supporters who do decide to protest over the former president’s alleged hush money scandal involving adult film star Stormy Daniels, “Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough issued a warning Tuesday: “It’s pretty simple: Break the law, go to jail,” adding that those who “screw with the NYPD” will get a “one-way ticket to Rikers.”

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