{"id":139549,"date":"2018-02-26T15:11:06","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T21:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=139549"},"modified":"2018-02-26T16:15:10","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T22:15:10","slug":"shep-smith-still-with-fnc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=139549","title":{"rendered":"Shep Smith still with Fox News Channel"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"story_content\" class=\"ng-binding\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-139553\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/smithsheppard-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/smithsheppard-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/smithsheppard-262x175.jpg 262w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/smithsheppard.jpg 634w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>(AP) Fox News Channel anchor Shepard Smith still has a job with the network, despite claims on social media that he&#8217;s been fired.Network spokeswoman Irena Briganti says in an email to The Associated Press that the story that Smith has been let go for his &#8220;obvious disrespect for President Trump&#8221; is &#8220;completely false.&#8221; Smith was on the air Monday afternoon in his regular time slot.<\/p>\n<p>Web sites including adjourna and conservative say reported that media mogul Rupert Murdoch gave Smith &#8220;his walking papers&#8221; after the anchor spoke out against President Donald Trump &#8220;on multiple occasions.&#8221; Similar stories circulated online about a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>Smith has been a newscaster on Fox for more than 20 years. He&#8217;s been criticized by Fox&#8217;s more conservative viewers for reporting on views they disagree with. Last fall, the liberal watchdog group Media Matters for America pointed out that Smith&#8217;s program had avoided a story about Hillary Clinton and an Obama-era uranium deal that was receiving heavy play elsewhere on the network.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(AP) Fox News Channel anchor Shepard Smith still has a job with the network, despite claims on social media that he&#8217;s been fired.Network spokeswoman Irena Briganti says in an email to The Associated Press that the story that Smith has been let go for his &#8220;obvious disrespect for President Trump&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":139553,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139549"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139561,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139549\/revisions\/139561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/139553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}