Fox News On-Air Reporter Abruptly Resigns & The Reason Has Republicans Furious

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Following several reporters who want to provide legitimate news, yet another has left the Fox News network in frustration. The second in just three weeks has announced his departure.

Adam Housley announced his resignation with no other job lined up, just as Conor Powell, the Fox News Jerusalem reporter, did recently. According to other Fox News reporters, tensions and frustrations are high with the move from actual reporting to opinion panels covering Trump, according to POLITICO.

‘Many Fox News employees I talked to would jump at an opportunity to leave if there was one, just out of frustration. There is a frustration with being tied to the Trump administration. At the end of the day, journalists want to report facts.’

Housley did not speak with POLITICO but issued a statement through a Fox News spokesperson saying that he was leaving to spend more time with his family, but another Fox News employee who resigned says his diplomatic answer is not the whole story. According to that former employee, “he’s not doing the type of journalism he wants to be doing. And he is unhappy with the tone of the conversation of the channel.”

The exit comes soon after Conor Powell, who was a Middle East correspondent for Fox News, left under similar circumstances.

‘Powell reported for nine years for Fox News from the Middle East but, according to a friend who worked with him overseas, felt that the network had moved away from news and more toward opinion. With less opportunity to report on air, the friend said, it became more difficult for Powell to stomach what he saw the Fox News brand becoming.’

A friend of Powell’s elaborated on the exit.

‘Conor was growing increasingly embarrassed by the channel, by the positions, by the relentless blind defense of Trump. If you’re overseas and doing important work like Conor was, you can certainly focus on the work and tell yourself, “Hey I’m doing important things and I’m just going to focus on this and ignore all the rest.” But it just became impossible to ignore.’

Even with all the Trump worship at Fox News, it may be possible to keep more legitimate reporters if they started actually telling the truth.

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