Shep Smith Fox News' "Resident Contrarian," "Man Of Reason"
But then there's Shepard Smith, Fox News' resident contrarian. Far from toeing the company line, Smith occasionally defends Obama and other Democra...
But then there's Shepard Smith, Fox News' resident contrarian. Far from toeing the company line, Smith occasionally defends Obama and other Democra...
Posted 10.27.2009 | Media
Shepard Smith apologized for a "lack of balance" on a story aired during his Fox News show today. Reporter Shannon Bream was covering the campaign fo...
Eric E. Burns | Posted 10.22.2009 | Media
The White House has exposed Fox News for what it is: not a news organization, but a partisan political entity that is waging a war against the Obama administration and its progressive agenda.
Posted 10.08.2009 | Media
Fox News host Shepard Smith has a reputation for speaking his mind, and today he let his viewers know the latest source for his outrage: the bacon che...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.07.2009 | Media
Earlier this afternoon, Fox News's Shepard Smith demonstrated some of that trademarked independent thinking that so often gets him in dutch with the c...
AskMen.com | Posted 10.06.2009 | Media
Shepard Smith is one of the most-watched newsmen in America, as well as one of the highest-paid anchors in the country. His fast-paced nightly news pr...
Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 10.01.2009 | Media
"The Fox Report" on Fox News, hosted by anchor Shepard Smith, ran a piece by reporter Dan Springer on how Canada's single-payer health care system is ...
Norman Horowitz | Posted 08.30.2009 | Media
TV talking heads have learned to entice their listeners to listen by being as outrageous as they wish to be.
Posted 08.02.2009 | Media
Fox News' Shepard Smith was having some trouble with a "fill-in director" during yesterday's broadcast of his show "The Fox Report." A clearly irrita...
New York Times | BILL CARTER | Posted 07.23.2009 | Media
Mr. Smith said he fully anticipated one result of those comments: the nasty e-mail increased. "Thousands of them," Mr. Smith said. "And I know they...
Huffington Post | Susan Crile | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics
The second ex-wife of James von Brunn, the man who shot and killed a security guard at the Holocaust Museum yesterday, spoke publicly Thursday for the...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.11.2009 | Media
Time will tell if Shep Smith's colleagues at Fox stop taking these sorts of emails casually. Smith clearly could do that no longer.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.04.2009 | Politics
Media Monitor Chad Capellman flags the clip, below, of Shepard Smith, conducting a very touching interview with Mohammed Sohail, the Long Island shopk...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.03.2009 | Media
As I've said, it is a simple fact that former Vice President Dick Cheney has long been willing to provide nominal support for gay marriage. Yet, as m...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.21.2009 | Media
Most media organizations are used to getting dogged and criticized by Media Matters For America, but, via Greg Sargent, it seems that the organization...
Scott Blakeman | Posted 05.29.2009 | Media
At the risk of being called a bad speller, I think torture is a four letter word. The outcry that greeted Fox News anchor Shepard Smith's comments on ...
Will Bunch | Posted 05.28.2009 | Media
The torture issue doesn't lend itself to cute little "up" and "down" arrows, to dueling cable shouters "on the right" and "on the left," to all the little devices we in the media use.
Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.24.2009 | Politics
The way we respond to the revelations about the Bush administration's use of torture will define the kind of country we are. It is a test of our courage and our convictions. So far, the media are not getting high marks.
David Quigg | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics
My point is simple: We cannot let Dick Cheney set the terms of America's debate about torture.
HuffingtonPost.com | Nico Pitney | Posted 05.23.2009 | Media
Update: scroll down for Smith's uncensored comments Fox News viewers witnessed a rather incredible scene on Wednesday as anchor Shepard Smith and Fox...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.15.2009 | Media
Media watchdog organization Media Matters For America will be sending a letter Tuesday to Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace, imploring him to "to pub...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.16.2009 | Politics
Here's what I think Shepard Smith, of Fox News, did last Friday. First he came on the air to broadly mock Glenn Beck for the weird show he was about ...
Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 04.04.2009 | Comedy
You know them, you love them and now they're all in one place. We are not here to judge, but to celebrate. A couple of the people on this video even s...
Think Progress | Posted 03.31.2009 | Media
Today, a federal grand jury formally charged Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri -- the only "enemy combatant" held inside the United States -- "with two counts...
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 03.13.2009 | Media
Esquire profiles Fox News anchor Shep Smith in its March issue, devoting over 4,000 words to the man Fox News execs describe as "the antianchor." In ...
The Daily Beast | Posted 10.30.2009 | Media