Former Fox News Host Chris Wallace Having ‘Daily Breakdowns’ After Joining CNNNews Page Index, Oct 16, 2022
Chris Wallace is learning a harsh lesson after he abruptly left Fox News after 18 years to join the left-wing outlet at CNN. Wallace was lured onto CNN’s new online streaming service called CNN+ but it’s drawing fewer than 10,000 daily viewers. Wallace is quickly learning that no one is watching him anymore.
Sources say Wallace is suffering “daily breakdowns,” and asking his staffers “to count how many times a day his promo is playing.” Without stronger marketing, it appears very few people are tuning in. Jon Nicosia, president of News Cycle Media and former managing editor of Mediaite, says a source told him “Chris Wallace is ‘having daily breakdowns’ over the ‘miserable launch’ of CNN+.”
Wallace now wants a “CNN show or is threatening to walk,” Nicosia wrote to Twitter. “He is having staffers count how many times a day his promo is playing.” Nicosia added, “He’s telling anyone that will listen he wants Cuomo’s old time slot.”
Wallace initially said that he was “thrilled” to join the liberal outlet CNN after he refused to renew his contract with Fox News. Suspicions began circulating.
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He eventually admitted that life at Fox News was becoming “unsustainable.” Wallace reportedly even whined to Fox News management about Tucker Carlson who continued to ask questions and investigate instances of alleged voter fraud in the 2020 election.
This was apparently a deal-breaker for Wallace, who was evidently happy with the outcome of the election.
“I just no longer felt comfortable with the programming at Fox,” 74-year-old Wallace said. “I’m fine with opinion: conservative opinion, liberal opinion,” he continued. “But when people start to question the truth — Who won the 2020 election? Was Jan. 6 an insurrection? — I found that unsustainable.”
“I spent a lot of 2021 looking to see if there was a different place for me to do my job,” he added.
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