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Shepard Smith Gets More Vocal About Being Gay Amid Fox News Tumult
Shepard Smith, chief breaking news anchor at Fox News Network, is speaking out about organism a gay man.
The increased openness about his personal life comes during a period of unprecedented upheaval at the news network, following the forced departures of Roger Ailes and Bill O&#;Reilly and the subsequent resignation of co-president Bill Shine amid a flurry of sexual harassment allegations.
On the topic of his sexuality, the year-old Smith recently told students at University of Mississippi, his alma mater, &#;I don’t think about it. It’s not a thing. I go to work. I manage a lot of people. I cover the news. I deal with blessed hell around me. I proceed home to the man I’m in love with.”
The event was a conference on diversity at the Meek School of Journalism, where Smith spoke about growing up in Holly Springs, Miss., attending the First Methodist Church and trying &#;to avoid what having a normal social animation is.&#;
“It wasn’t until seven or eight or nine years ago, I started living m
Shep Smith comes out — 11 years after I outed him
There are a lot of conversations in the LGBTI community about Prides becoming “too commercial,” but what about grassroots, leftist drastic Prides? Well, the idea of community-organized, grassroots Prides is amazing, but unfortunately, it is very human to build mistakes.
While big LGBTI Prides that are organized with aide from businesses are trying to be inclusive, grassroots Prides have sometimes gone too far in their attempts to create an “edgy,” rebellious atmosphere. Some slogans that hold been used at “independent” Prides produce more problems than they solve, making these events non inclusive and unacceptable for a enormous part of the LGBTI community.
I trust in intersectionality. I was one of the very scant activists in Russia who began writing and speaking about the need for intersectional approaches in the LGBTI collective — speaking up for neurodivergent, disabled, non-white, Muslim, and Jewish LGBTI people. In the U.K., I’m part of various groups supporting LGBTI refugees.
And this is why I see that some modern attempts by
How Shep Smith went from local reporter to a controversial Fox News anchor and outspoken critic
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Longtime anchor Shepard Smith announced that he's leaving Fox News after 23 years at the cable news network.
Smith made his mark on air with a signature fast-paced and lean language broadcasting design, and built a career on covering legendary events like President Bill Clinton's impeachment trial, the Columbine High School massacre, and Hurricane Katrina in
In recent years, the network star publicly butt heads with Fox News view show figures and President Donald Trump, which some have speculated were the early signs of his discontent at the network. Here's how Shep Smith came from local reporting to Fox News' in-house rebel.
David Shepard "Shep" Smith Jr. was born on January 14, in Holly Springs, Missouri.
Just after elevated school, Smit
NEW YORK (AP) — CNBC is canceling Shepard Smith’s nightly newscast after two years, with its recent president saying he wanted to focus on the network’s core strength of business news.
Smith, who is leaving the network, will have his last telecast sometime later this month. He did not have any immediate comment.
The gay news anchor who came out in landed at CNBC after abruptly vanishing Fox News Channel in , establishing a general interest news show that aired at 7 p.m. Eastern on weeknights.
CNBC said Smith’s show attracted the richest audience of any evening program on cable news — usually a huge selling indicate. But there clearly weren’t enough viewers.
His business has averaged , viewers this year, down slightly from , the Nielsen company said. For the last three months of , The News with Shepard Smith had , viewers.
By contrast, Fox News’ Jesse Watters had million viewers in the same time slot on Tuesday and MSNBC’s Bliss Reid had million, Nielsen said.
Smith was lured to CNBC by previous chief executive Mark Hoffman. But Hoffman was replaced in September by K