{"id":1402831,"date":"2022-03-27T11:14:43","date_gmt":"2022-03-27T15:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1402831"},"modified":"2022-03-27T11:14:45","modified_gmt":"2022-03-27T15:14:45","slug":"chris-wallace-laments-unsustainable-workplace-at-fox-news-post-2020-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chris-wallace-laments-unsustainable-workplace-at-fox-news-post-2020-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Wallace Laments &#039;Unsustainable&#039; Workplace at Fox News Post-2020 Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchris-wallace-laments-unsustainable-workplace-at-fox-news-post-2020-election%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1402831&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Former Fox News anchor Chris Wallace said his former employer presented an \u201cunsustainable\u201d workplace after the 2020 election and he \u201cjust no longer felt comfortable with the programming\u201d at the media giant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m fine with opinion: conservative opinion, liberal opinion,\u201d Wallace told the <em>New York Times<\/em> in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/27\/business\/media\/chris-wallace-cnn-fox-news.html?referringSource=articleShare\">interview<\/a> published Sunday. \u201cBut when people start to question the truth \u2014 Who won the 2020 election? Was Jan. 6 an insurrection? \u2014 I found that unsustainable.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Wallace, who left Fox News last December after 18 years for cable news rival CNN, confirmed he complained to Fox News leadership about Tucker Carlson\u2019s streaming documentary \u201cPatriot Purge,\u201d which set out claims the Jan. 6 Capitol riot was a \u201cfalse flag\u201d operation intended to tarnish the name of conservatives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore, I found it was an environment in which I could do my job and feel good about my involvement at Fox,\u201d Wallace told the <em>Times<\/em>. \u201cAnd since November of 2020, that just became unsustainable, increasingly unsustainable as time went on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As Breitbart News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/clips\/2021\/12\/12\/fncs-chris-wallace-announces-departure-this-is-my-final-fox-news-sunday\/\">reported<\/a>, last December\u00a0at the close of his program, the then \u201cFox News Sunday\u201d anchor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/clips\/2021\/12\/12\/fncs-chris-wallace-announces-departure-this-is-my-final-fox-news-sunday\/\">announced<\/a> his departure from the show he had hosted for the past 18 years.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Nolte: Fox News must be thrilled to finally be rid of Chris Wallace, who was regularly murdered by the competition. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qgQaCeZ3S0\">https:\/\/t.co\/qgQaCeZ3S0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1470405991892242438?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 13, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Wallace, who took over for the late Tony Snow in 2003, told his viewers it was time to move on.<\/p>\n<p>The 74-year-old reporter noted in his Sunday interview the critics who have suggested he should have left the network sooner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome people might have drawn the line earlier, or at a different point,\u201d he told the newspaper. \u201cI think Fox has changed over the course of the last year and a half. But I can certainly understand where somebody would say, \u2018Gee, you were a slow learner, Chris.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wallace had been recruited by since departed CNN president Jeff Zucker and his move was wildly applauded by CNN anchor Brian Stelter who said on his show \u201cReliable Sources\u201d that Wallace\u2019s departure \u201cspeaks volumes\u201d about Fox News\u2019 claimed increasing radicalism.<\/p>\n<p>For his part, Wallace admitted he was \u201cobviously unhappy\u201d Zucker departed last month after failing to disclose his romantic ties to the network\u2019s top marketing executive, Allison Gollust.<\/p>\n<p>Wallace had previously said the departure left him \u201cirate\u201d as Breitbart News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2022\/02\/06\/chris-wallace-upset-jeff-zucker-ouster-cnn-uncertain-future\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As to the future, Wallace said his new daily interview show will be less about politics. Instead some of his first guests will include William Shatner and singer Judy Collins.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to get out of politics,\u201d he told the <em>Times<\/em>. \u201cDoing a Sunday show on the incremental change from week to week in the Build Back Better plan began to lose its attraction.\u201d<\/p>\n<h5><em><span>Follow Simon Kent on Twitter:<\/span> <a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SunSimonKent\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @SunSimonKent<\/a> <span>or e-mail to: skent@breitbart.com<\/span><br \/><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Fox News anchor Chris Wallace said his former employer presented an \u201cunsustainable\u201d workplace after the 2020 election and he \u201cjust no longer felt comfortable with the programming\u201d at the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1402831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/82"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1402831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1402831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1402831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1402831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}