Fox News Lobotomizes Its 'Brain Room,' Cuts Fact-Based Journalism

[JonLP24]

The recent mass layoffs at Fox News—an estimated body count of around 70, amounting to a little less than 3 percent of the cable channel’s workforce—signal what current and former employees describe as the purposeful devaluing of fact-based journalism in favor of right-wing opinion, race-baiting, and conspiracy-mongering at the top-rated, Donald Trump-friendly cable outlet.

Fox News’ PR department used anodyne corporate-speak to characterize the job losses, namely “restructuring various divisions in order to position all of our businesses for ongoing success.” But the layoffs, outside of the hair and makeup department, cut most deeply into the channel’s straight-news operations at Fox News Digital and elsewhere, according to insiders, while protecting the ratings-heavy, revenue-generating domains of Fox & Friends in the morning, and of Trump cheerleaders Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, and Laura Ingraham in primetime.

Along with the painful layoffs, fired employees—worried about getting new jobs amid the COVID-19 pandemic—are being forced to sign severance agreements that include draconian non-disclosure requirements that one current staffer described as shocking, in order to receive their severance packages.

“With these layoffs in multiple news departments... it looks like Fox is more like an extension of this administration, instead of a news network.”
— A current Fox News employee

https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-lobotomizes-its-brain-room-cuts-fact-based-journalism?ref=home

[lindysalsagal]

1. Not at all surprising.

Scum.

[Skittles]

2. that's cute

as if Faux News was EVER "fact-driven"

[bottomofthehill]

3. Show some little tiny mouse balls

Skip the severance package and tell the truth.

[Silent3]

4. Someone should offer a few of them money to forego their severence packages...

...in exchange for the dirt.

[Blue Owl]

5. They had a "brain room?"

Wow, that is news...

[crickets]

6. I honestly thought it was the Onion or Borowitz.

This is the second time in about a week.

[Midnight Writer]

7. FOX has never been a news network. They don't do reporting, they just grab stories from others

and then embellish it with talking points.

For all their moaning about the NYT and WaPo being fake, 90% of FOX content is cribbed directly from them.