It should go without saying, but Fox "News" is a cancer on our body politic and, imo, bears a lot of the responsibility for what's happened to our politics and toxic culture and deep partisan divisions. The term "Fox News Orphan" is real, and Fox has very successfully learned how to keep its viewers in a constant state of anger and outrage and keep them coming back for more. I remember even 15 or 20 years ago if there was a completely unknown liberal/radical instructor at Podunk Community College somewhere who said something that Republicans and conservatives might find offensive, Fox would be sure to find the quote and blow it out of all proportion to enrage their viewers and convince them that this was what every single Democrat believed and stood for. It's wicked, but for them it's been wildly successful beyond their greatest dreams.
’60 Minutes’ Producer Bill Owens Resigns Citing Inability to Make “Independent Decisions”
Longtime 60 Minutes executive producer Bill Owens is resigning. In an email to staff, Owens cited an inability “to make independent decisions based on what was right for 60 Minutes.”
“Over the past months, it has…become clear that I would not be allowed to run the show as I have always run it,” Owens wrote. “To make independent decisions based on what was right for 60 Minutes, right for the audience. So, having defended this show — and what we stand for — from every angle, over time with everything I could, I am stepping aside so the show can move forward.”