Shep makes enough anti-Trump comments to make it clear where his own sympathies lie. His is a news show, so commentary is not the norm, anyway, but he makes snide remarks and comments that are very telling. If anyone doesn’t know where he stands, they aren’t listening.
And that’s bad, if you’re supposed to be presenting the news.
Shep has been with the network from the very beginning. He’d have to do something egregiously stupid or illegal to be fired. Fox is NOT afraid to have him on the air.
That you cannot find someone of similar caliber, but with a conservative bent, running a show on MSNBC or CNN is very telling, however. They couldn’t handle it or stomach it.
Trump fan? Only one cable station to watch. Everyone else? CNN, MSNBC, so two stations going out to similar demographics. If you look at the numbers you see that. Combined in total viewers, FOX still beat the two, but lost to them in the younger demographic.
Trumpsters, you’re going to have to do something about reaching out to younger people. You don’t have much to offer them.
Fox is most often attacked by the left for being biased on the right. Smith is at least balanced towards the left in his Trump hatred.
When I was once involved in evaluating the proposed cost of a contract to be used by the government negotiators, after questioning the proposed costs of a number of line items I estimated the cost of one line item at more than had been proposed.
One company representative said “He believes we will need more money for this than we proposed”.
The more experienced negotiator said “He’s just trying to create the illusion of impartiality”.
Big Liberal newspaper does the same thing with their selected conservatives (though most are better than Smith)