It strikes me as interesting and telling that the only Sunday show that Sarah Palin appeared on today was Fox News Sunday—i.e., the show on the network for whom she is now an employee. It is difficult to see such an appearance as being a serious one, as it is as friendly as territory can get. Not only is Fox already ideologically predisposed to Palin and the Tea Party movement, but (to repeat myself), she is an employee. Not exactly the context in which one is likely to receive tough questions.
It took, by the way, 20 minutes into the interview (in which Chris Wallace was interviewing her as a politician linked to the Tea Party movement) for Wallace to then ask her to change her hat to that of a “Fox News analyst.” She was not introduced as such at the beginning.
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February 7th, 2024 at 5:40 pm
It strikes me as interesting and telling that the only Sunday show that Sarah Palin appeared on today was Fox News Sunday—i.e., the show on the network for whom she is now an employee.
Do you think she may have some sort of non-compete clause in her contract?
How typical is it to see analysts employed by one network appearing on another?
I don’t watch enough TV news to know, but it wouldn’t surprise me if Fox has some restrictions in her contract.
February 7th, 2024 at 9:29 pm
The non-compete clause is a possibility.
The problem was that for 20 minutes she was interviewed as the Tea Party keynote speaker, former governor and potential future candidate, not as a “Fox News Analyst”—that didn’t come up until the 20 minute mark.