![]() ![]() I don’t necessarily assume I have someone glued to my shows. When I’m on the sofa with Fox & Friends, I hope the viewers are watching. Writers often talk about having an ideal reader in mind. Just because you saw that on Facebook, it doesn’t mean it’s true.’ People are so passionate about what’s going on, but I’m telling them, ‘Check your sources!’ I always tell them: ‘You’ve got to ask yourself where you got that from. Now, I have people telling me things, and they’re almost as engaged as I am. In the beginning, I’d tell friends what I did, and they didn’t know the fundamentals of the major stories. It’s a whole new dynamic.Įveryone’s more engaged. Our digital network has its own unit and they break their own stories. You’re doing stuff for streaming networks and social media, so fox.com matters as much as Fox News. The biggest thing for us is social media. You don’t have to worry, ‘Do I have Evander Holyfield’s fight with Mike Tyson?’ It’s there, everything at your fingertips. If you can see it online and you can license it, you can put it on TV. So I’m able to stay with the storylines and in many cases weave them together. I’m asking questions to men and women who are newsmakers, and I’m able to accumulate knowledge and contacts from the interviews. By the time 12 comes, I’ve already done three hours of TV and three hours of radio.Įverybody in the world knows what Fox News is, so people want to come on. All the time, there’s news breaking, you’re adding things, you’ll do interviews. I have an hour ride, and then my busiest time is really between 3 a.m. I had a news background: I had a political science degree, and did news when I started out, at a small station out in Ontario, so little by little I was able to transition into doing news. It became clear pretty fast that Fox’s mandate would be news. I started filling in as a sports reporters and anchor in ’96, and got a contract in ’97. I look back at it, and it doesn’t even feel like the same place. I’ve watched the place expand from this small little studio, jammed in with three cameras and a tape library running archive footage, and now we’ve got countless floors, and networks from Fox Business to Fox News to Fox Nation to Fox Radio. Fox News is 25 years old this week, and it feels great.
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