It was always Chris Wallace’s job to protect the DC interests by tamping down any sunlight upon corrupt UniParty politics. That’s the reason why CTH called Wallace the deep swamp ‘gatekeeper‘ for a decade.
Wallace, the top player amid many such players at Fox News, was always a narrative platform provider to distribute media points that supported the institutional administrative state in DC. However, thanks to the rise of pragmatic conservatism, a movement created by Donald Trump and commonly identified as MAGA, in recent years more people have caught on to how this insufferable media game is played.
Chris Wallace was increasingly becoming naked to his audience, and as a direct outcome, increasingly useless for propaganda distribution. Today, the functionally obsolescent gatekeeper announced, effective immediately, he was leaving Fox News. Moments later, CNN announced Chris Wallace was joining them. In essence, Wallace moves from controlled opposition to direct opposition. WATCH:
The CNN welcome announcement is AVAILABLE HERE.
Wallace was not the first departure. The increased public awareness of the manipulative construct that is Fox News (writ large) is the same reason why Steve Hayes and Jonah Goldberg were released. That is also the same motive for Fox hiring Dan Bongino.
Although it is yet to be announced, the Fox News contracts for Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham also will not be renewed after their current terms expire. With more people finding more places where genuine source material facts are cited with sunlight, the ability for controlled opposition pundits to thrive is demonstrably lessened.
Traditional cable news is modifying itself accordingly with subscription based services.
If you want to avoid uncomfortable truth, if you want to be fed propaganda, if you want to get talking points just to support your skewed and ideologically flawed world view, and if you want to avoid confronting your own preconceptions, the subscriber services from both Fox News and CNN will now provide the direct injection of propaganda and misinformation you need to retain the status quo. This is the new business model for cable news platforms.
An entirely new media infrastructure has assembled outside the influence of corporations. Understanding current events, real news and information based on fact, is no longer dependent on corporations. Independent researchers and information providers are giving the raw material citations directly to audiences on a variety of platforms.
In the bigger picture, these are the consequences from identifying “fake news” publicly, and yes, we can thank Donald J. Trump for that. This is the biggest gift that Donald Trump created outside of his America First political agenda. Donald J. Trump was/is a walking red pill; a “touchstone”: a visible, empirical test or criterion for determining the quality or genuineness of anything political.
Without Trump, the business models of CNN, MSNBC, Fox News and the alphabet broadcasters would never have collapsed as quickly. He alone accomplished that.
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Hannity and Ingraham will end up over at Fox Nation IMO…..
Maybe Fox will rehire O’Reilly 🙂
…and C.Wallace should stick to making soup.
Stop watching Fox and it won’t matter to you who isn’t being renewed. Glad to see them both go. Tired of them years ago.
“Stop Fox”goes hand-in-hand with stop being “fed-centric.”
Stop paying attention to the daily “fed-centric” news flush coming out of dc and they lose power over you.
Turn your resources and time to the local / state entities.
Nullify ……. don’t comply.
“Let’s go Brandon!”
I like that term “fed-centric”. I’m going to find way’s to start using it.
They will bring back Meghan Kelly and O’ Reilly! LOL.
Here is another Megan Kelly that fizzled:
‘Unexpectedly’: Former Fox Anchor Shepard Smith’s CNBC Show Is A Ratings Dumpster Fire
CNBC had high hopes for the new program. The network built its star a new studio at CNBC headquarters in New Jersey and shelled out more money to build a separate one at Smith’s palatial Hamptons home owing to the pandemic, according to the people familiar with the situation. The show staffed up with some of Smith’s former Fox News colleagues, as well as CNBC veterans, almost all of whom worked quickly to launch the show before the 2020 election in the hopes of capitalizing on some of the increased news viewership around the historic race.
But the viewers never seemed to show up.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2021/07/unexpectedly-former-fox-anchor-shepard-smiths-cnbc-show-is-a-ratings-dumpster-fire/
I suppose Wallace will be joining Kelly & Smith in oblivion, but with the same obligatory golden parachute? This seems to be getting very expensive and with the number of viewers these folks generate it would be more profitable to run a test pattern during their time slots.
Kelly was bought out and iced specifically to be silenced .
Totally different from Wallace and smith both complete 100% leftist tools
Similar to don lemon.
Oreily and Kelly like Glen Beck were dangerous to the narrative and all silenced – meaning they were separated from their main audience at Their “PEAK”
These others you speak of smith , Wallace , Hayes , gold.. all no individual threat or value just useless pawns –
Smiths ego was his end.
I haven’t watched TV in yrs bought to group em all together is beyond foolish –
-I’m sure CTH would have specific insight to the inner workings of all 4 – would love to hear his thoughts .
And she did a “me-too” thing on Ailes before she left which should have been a recipe for extended success. Oh well…
I always liked Kelly, who now does a very respectable longform interview podcast. Like many here I stopped watching tv/cable news shows years ago, but after her interview with Tucker I was intrigued enough to do the Fox Nation trial, and have developed a new found respect for Tucker.
The new owners st CNN have said they want to return to hard news. I’m assuming Wallace is their idea of quality anchoring. In other words the new owners will still skew left but they’ll be less obtuse about it.
If most people in government are lefties where else would M5M get their sources?
Fox may replace them with fresh faced propagandists. We will see through them too. The truth can no longer be hidden.
Fair and Balanced: Standing a lie up against the truth so well that viewers can discern neither
excellent
Will Trump media be more profitable than his real estate holdings, I do believe so. People who hate him willl tune in as well as all of his Maga people who are growing by leaps and bounds.
Listening to Wallace’s nasal voice is like listening to nails on chalkboard.
Running though a 10,000 watt PA Amp.
They’re all a bunch of pompous, insufferably arrogant boobs … I don’t have the time to listen to them, even the local pretend journalists … they’re all reading from the same scripts, puking the same brainless crap.
Good riddance to that insufferable elitist moron. I thought Jon Malone was buying CNN to redo it. If Chris Wallace is going there that is not a good sign.
CNN has problems and Wallace has been linked to Epstein. Yes this is rumor but with a fair amount of verity. I’m starting to believe, sadly, that the entire TV journalism profession is hopelessly tainted. We stopped watch all of them years ago.
For laughs…i would love to see John Roberts and Chrissy on the “Lolita Express” together…
I don’t know why so many keep repeating the notion that Malone is buying CNN. It’s just plain wrong. CNN is part of the Warner Media Division of ATT. ATT has entered into a deal to sell/merge the Warner assets, including CNN, with the Discovery Network. The sale, which may or may not happen, is supposed to happen sometime next year. Malone is on the Board of Discovery and, apparently, its largest shareholder. But 70% of the shares of the new company will be held by former ATT shareholders so his ownership interest in the new company will definitely be diluted. Not sure if it has been announced, but he probably will be on the board of the new company so his recent statements about CNN are significant. It’s also possible that CNN will be sold to someone like Bezos (who won’t care if it is profitable). The new company is being saddled with a mountain of ATT’s debt (incurred when it stupidly bought Warner Media) 3 years ago) so it may want to get rid of an unprofitable business like CNN. Just my opinion.
Here is something.
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/johnmalone-cnn-warnerbros-discovery/2021/11/21/id/1045596/
Just checked the ownership data on Discovery. Malone is the largest Individual shareholder, but his share is only about 1% of total shares. The vast majority, over 97%, are held by institutions like Vanguard and Blackrock .
And Discovery, i.e. Blackrock, also owns GB News, known for… Neil Oliver.
Malone is a stud…given his business model…AT&T is a lib infested cesspool…
Subscription news? Ok, I’ll subscribe to TCH.
No TV, no cable. SD has me over a barrel.
Thank you, PT45 🙂 Thank you, Sundance & Crew 🙂
Wallace never was an adequate replacement for Tony Snow.
Tony was a gentleman and a journalist. I sorely miss him.
True.
Tony Snow was a class-act (admittedly my original reason to start to watch FOX many years ago), Chris Wallace is the son of a famous journalist who is dead now; very different cases….
Very interesting about Hannity and Ingraham. I haven’t watched either one recently. Hannity always struck me as someone whose purpose was to fool the base into thinking RINOs like Lindsey Graham were on our side. Last week, I dozed off during Tucker on two different nights. Each time I woke up, Hannity was on ranting about Mitch McConnell. I was surprised to hear that, but after reading this, it makes me think that perhaps he isn’t too keen on his contract not being renewed and is trying to appease the MAGA base. Who knows. Regardless, he’s a phony. When the Afghanistan withdrawal happened, he was trying to prime his audience to support re-invading Afghanistan and leaving troops there forever to help our “allies” (i.e., the people we bribed, who hate us, and who rape little boys) and “American citizens” left behind (i.e., Afghans we bribed, who hate us, who rape little boys, and whom we foolishly brought to our country and made citizens). His approach didn’t get any traction, needless to say.
Hannity’s act got tired a long time ago, but his ratings have still been very good. So don’t get why Fox would not renew….unless he’s demanding too muck $$$$
Ingraham not being renewed also doesn’t make sense. Her show does well.
I guess I would want to know who would replace each?
I think Hannity’s ratings are due to Tucker coming on before him.
Hannity is a RINO’s favorite prostitute.
Hannity was always light in the loafers.
Hannity rants never made a difference.
Tucker is drawing serious blood.
Tucker never talks about himself. His show is about delivering actual, truthful information to his viewers. Hannity talks about himself every chance he gets. If you’re going to be a me-me-me type, you need to also deliver the goods, ala PDJT. Hannity delivers nothing but Graham, McCarthy, and a tiresome fascination with himself. O’Reilly is also a self-obsessed blowhard. When BOR was Hannity’s lead-in, Hannity’s shortcomings weren’t so obvious. With Tucker as his lead-in, Hannity comes off as a rank amateur.
So True! I thought I was alone in thinking that. Hannity is marrying Ainslee, from the morning show, and she has a 2 year old Hannity will havwe to compete with. Do we know for sure he and laura have not have their contracts renewed?
when tony snow was host, it was must see tv.
after he left, it was must avoid tv….
hey, how about LOU DOBBS as the new host?
👍🏻 😁 👍🏻
I don’t watch Fox anymore, not for a couple of years now. Is there anyone on now that isn’t a shill for the left?
Tucker for the most part and Gutfeld
Yep, those are the only two shows I watch on Fox.
Tucker is usually good, and Gutfeld is hilarious!
I gave up satellite TV after election night. Fox and OANN were the ones I mostly watched. When Fox pulled that BS calling AZ before the polls closed, I quit watching Fox. I like Tucker, but he’s limited on what he can say too. Big Pharma is Fox’s main sponsor, so nothing bad can be said about the vaccines or election fraud. Trump exposed them all.
You’re absolutely right, Rhea! I refuse to watch any of FOX after that night.
Will Chris Wallace and Jeffrey Toobin be in charge of streaming the SPAM “watch my masturbation” videos?
Buh, Bye!
Ok, so you’re saying Jonah Goldberg was released for what? Being too Lincolny Projectish and they brought in Bongino because he is somehow a swamp creature? If you believe that…? Bongino has been at the tip of the spear in exposing Spygate while Goldberg was calling for Impeachment of Trump.
The same Bongino that said there was no election fraud? That Bongino?
When did he say that? I’m not attacking you, or defending him, but I would like to see a source on that. I’ve heard him bring up the topic of election fraud many times on his podcast but I’ve never heard him say there wasn’t any fraud.
Bongino believes in the fraud.
Ever wonder how Bongino got started? From whom Bongino stole his original Russiagate/Spygate sourcing? Who drew attention to Bongino in the first place?
We here all knew. We watched and heard it happen. Bongino even doxxed his source. Once. Only once.
Tip of the spear? smh
My eyes!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHH
Eye Bleach!!!
So true Sue.
Sundance for the sake of all of us ladies here on the Treehouse please give a heads up when posting the photo of those creepy geezers in their underpants!
You can put us all off our food for days when we see that.
Love the photo of the grinning baby and that helped calm my nerves after that geezer underpants photo but how about a warning for us.
Hey, NOBODY is more adept at putting up PERFECT graphics than Sundance. They are ALWAYS stunning!
Best news today
FCW. Arrogant POS
A good version of let’s go brandon
I would not shed a tear if these streaming pay-for-news services ended up cratering. At the end of the day, pay-for-news is a discretionary purchase whose value might be easily diminished in a high inflation environment, or more possibly by its exposure as propaganda. Look at how many newspapers have been canceled for the same reason.
It’s because it is much cheaper for the folks, finally we can pay if we want to watch what we want. Roku tons of free great shows and news.
For Chris…..do not let the door hit you in the a**! GOOD RIDDANCE!
Buh bye!
He’s done enough damage to the republic. He’ll fit in nicely over at the Chicken Noodle Network. I understand they’ve got a great peodo club over there…so there is that.
I will miss Wallace. At least as much as I miss Stalin
I was going to say that Chris Wallace can go to hell, but it appears he already is. I also thought gaslighting people was very tiring for him, but now he’s creating more work for an easier crowd.
From bad to worse.
Sayonara Chris.
“Wallace moves from controlled opposition to direct opposition.”
Frontal attacks are readily countered. The enemy shows his hand and goes for your throat. The frontal attack lacks strategic depth.
It’s the the flanking attack that disrupts your position and strikes you at a more vulnerable area.
Wallace may be sitting in a golden cage now but he can no real harm from this new perch.
CNN’s ratings are in the toilet. From here, it’s off to the septic tank and from there Wallace is too small a chunk to rise to the top.
What difference would it make if Wallace were to float to the top of the sludge? He may but it is still sludge!
Glad to see him move to CNN to crash and burn.
Haven’t seen him as a credible journalist since his hatchet job on Senator/Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann.
Good riddance.
It’s laughable, the malcontents that watch CNN think Wallace is MAGA. He won’t draw a fraction of an already small audience.
He’ll be a bigger bust than Shepard Smith at MSNBC.
Smith is on CNBC.
I think you’re right, Puzzled. Wallace will probably follow in Megyn Kelly’s footsteps and not fit into his new digs. The first time he tries to play it down the middle the lefty viewers, who’ve never had their biases challenged, will flip out.
I wonder if he quit or was canceled? My money is on canceled.
Canceled, they’ll only underwrite his failure for so long. They’d finance losses if he had any audience but they can reach more people on the big tech propaganda platforms.
I think Wallace is smarter than Kelly, e.g., he would not have given Trump the opportunity to exploit the very first truly idiotic question about women and be able to answer in such a remarkable way as Trump did, and then go on to win the whole debate unquestionably.
Kind of weird that he didn’t mention CNN in his sign-off. Why wouldn’t he? He’s going “home. He’s one of them, and always has been…the has-been that he is.
A perfect fit at CNN. One more liar, among the lair of liars………………
That picture of the swampers was hilarious. Soooo good Sundance. I can say I stopped watching Fox for good on Nov. 3rd, 2020. But even with that it was rare that I tuned into the Faux News Channel. I cut off all on that date. I’m into watching Real American’s Voice (RAV). Absolutely love the Warroom and Live from Studio F6b. It’s enjoyable to watch pro America news. I get clips of the fake news people. I see that John Solomon is starting a regular weekly program right after the New Year. I still have Dish Network and will continue to watch with Dish. I’m thinking about going to internet solely since I finally was able to get unlimited data (real unlimited which isn’t throttled, thank you Verizon. But my data isn’t quite up to speed yet. Still at 4G.
Soon enough to happen I’m sure. Living in the country has it’s positives and negatives.
😊Thank you, Sundance.
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Who knows if FOX did not try to initiate the move. Wallace comes in last on Sunday news shows so him leaving FOX is good for them. They can replace him with someone that can be somewhere other than last place.
I’m glad he decided to jump on the main stream media entertainment TITANIC .
This is my surprised face 😮
This makes me think about the Debate when President Trump was running the first time. Those three Fox people went against him in a very unfair way. So Wallace is now at CNN, the bottom of the trash can, Meghan Kelly went from top of tv to a pod cast, Leave it to Beaver should be looking over his shoulder.
We should be so lucky… That he is crashed & burned.
I wonder if Hannity and O’Reily to go to Trumps new TMTG media company in 2022?
God, I hope not.
Those are journalists, anyway. They are opinion people.
So, how many NEW Maga people could those two bring into the fold? None.
Stopped watching fox a long time ago
Agreed. I will occasionally watch clips that are presented on this site and other conservative twitter feeds. Tucker going after useless GOPe and whack job dRATS and sometimes the interviews on his Fox Nation with, Scott Atlas, Dr. Peter McCullough were good.
11 Dec 2021
“SPAC that plans to take Donald Trump’s media venture public soars in market cap to $2 billion”
https://news.yahoo.com/spac-plans-donald-trumps-media-210837247.html
Any questions?
Please someone explain to me about the Dan Bongino comment above. Also, why would Fox get rid of Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham? I do not understand.
I agree. That was a bit “hit and run”. None of those 3 have proved to be true MAGA material when tempted with FOX money, but still…why get rid of them unless FOX is planning to go full CNN?
I’ve never been a fan of Fox or any other MSM propaganda.
I cancelled my satellite account right after the 11/3/20 insurrection.
These media outlets are nothing but pimps!
There’s absolutely no shock or awe re: Chris Wallace.
As far as I’m concerned, Wallace just swapped chairs on the titanic.
I’m not a fan of Ingraham or Hannity either. I was really disappointed with Ingraham. I did not like her style. She constantly interrupted President Trump during interviews. And most importantly, she quickly threw in the towel and crowned Biden the President. Sorry Laura, you’re either for election integrity or not.
I’m interested to see if Hannity will put his money where is mouth is and stop supporting the MSM by staying employed with them.
My guess is no, but we shall see..
Hannityyyyyyy showed his colors when he wouldn’t move out of NYC like Rush did.
When you live in a cesspool when you have the resources not to, something ain’t right.
The big apple has been worm infected for decades.
I read that Hannity bought a $6million condo near Mar A Lago. Did not say whether that was going to be his main residence or not. But he should move to Florida full-time.
Glad I cut the cord in 2005. Smartest decision of my life. Love The Treehouse!!!
I jettisoned Fox news. ( and all cable) in 2017. it was clear then after the awful debate moderation of FOX in 2016.. that they had abandoned the mission of fair and balanced and had fallen in line with the other alphabet soup news
For years, he has been the ‘booger you just couldn’t quite get off the end of your finger’ each Sunday.
CNN will be the future Pence and RINO haven.
In all fairness, FOX will remain the same as CNN.
This is an attempted expansion of their “reach across the aisle” nonsense and coordinated BS.
I’m really surprise Chris Wallace didn’t just retire. He must be seriously compromised.
Brett Baier is next.
And tucker is best friends with Hunter Biden
Tucker Carlson and his family lived in the same neighborhood as Hunter Biden and his first wife and family.
I’m still hopeful for a Trump News Network.
Now another good reason not to fly commercial: Wallace’s smug mug will be on the airport TV screens. Barf.
… didn’t cross my mind… what a depressing thought!
Wait, what?
I thought Wallace was hosing the CNN segment on Fox all this time?
The undies pic is priceless!!
I think someone’s gave the Old Crow a tickle from behind.
And he liked it!
Probably his first wedgie since middle school…
Hmmm, I may make a wager with Sundance on the Hannity/Ingraham prediction. 😉
But it appears to me that Tucker is winning the battle at Fox. That’s a good thing.
Hunter’s best buddy Tucker is just the lastest version of a controlled deep state mouthpiece.
Tucker was silence by Fox regarding any 2020 election audit reporting and obediently went silence.
Do not under any circumstances trust Tucker “bowtie” Carlson.
Do your own research on anything any media outlet presents
Let us not forget the mastery of Tucker’s Dad on 60 Minutes as Chris Wallace’s Dad got deep stated. Tucker’s Dad had the interview rooms bugged and with hidden cameras. Instead of Mike ending up with an explosive scoop about the corrupt savings and loan scheme being run by Tucker’s Dad and involving the CIA and Ed Meese, Mike found himself having to apologize for racist statements caught by hidden cameras.
Chris’ dad Mike and 60 Minutes TV show was mostly standard leftwing propaganda. His coverup episode of the Ft. Marcy Park “Incident ” was a good example. The Wallace Family was big friends with the Clintons during and after Bill’s presidency.
Who is Tucker’s dad?
You are so misguided.
Really… Maybe you should watch his show some time…
“we don’t know how many votes were stolen on Tuesday night… software rigged… we ought to find out…” ~ Tucker Carlson
Nov 9, 2020
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Sep 24, 2020
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Sep 3, 2020
FYI … I Trust No One … But Lying says more about you than them…
These attacks are so lazy and transparent.
You mean the Hunter Biden that Tucker has savaged on his show almost nightly, including showing pictures of him with his prostitutes? Some friendship!
You clearly do no research.
Carlson is a fraud.
He says what he’s told to say.
Pfffttt!
Tucker must be the worst controlled oppo ever on cable TV.
Whomever is controlling Carlson is getting a really raw deal.
Absolutely! Tucker is another fraud. A high priced paramour
Hannity hurts the MAGA movement. Needs to go.
Hannity is mental.
Hannity is obnoxious and claims that 99% of FBI Agents are true blue Americans, an absurd, non-reality statement as I’ve ever heard but I don’t think he in any way hurts the MAGA movement. Besides, I love Linda’s fake New Yawk accent.
Tic Tock has made a career from kissing anuses
Carlson is controlled opposition.
He’s a NeverTrump fraud.
Right, sure he is. And your evidence for that is?
If I were a leftist, I would go on conservative sites and attack their best messengers too. Neat little tactic the left uses.
But Sundance often posts clips of Tucker’s show, so ya’ll might want to let him know he’s been duped.