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The breaking point for Smith came as tensions with the opinion shows were getting to be too much.įor example, in late September 2019, 8 pm ET host Tucker Carlson mocked Smith for standing up for his friend and colleague Judge Andrew Napolitano after the judge was called a “fool” by one of Carlson’s guests. Smith thought depriving viewers of news and replacing it with opinions “felt a little selfish,” he added.īut in the end, staying felt impossible, CNN Chief Media Correspondent Brian Stelter reported shortly after Smith’s departure. “If you feel like the Fox viewers were getting mis- or disinformation, I was there to make sure that they got it straight,” he said. “I thought it was important that I stay there,” he said. Smith felt that by sticking with Fox News, he could counteract falsehoods spread by Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham and other prime-time hosts. Smith, who joined Fox News at its inception in 1996, said he was proud of the work he did at the network, hosting a daytime news show that was increasingly at odds with what was being aired on Fox’s opinion shows. “When people begin with a false premise and lead people astray, that’s injurious to society and it’s the antithesis of what we should be doing: Those of us who are so honored and grateful to have a platform of public influence have to use it for the public good.” “Opine all you like, but if you’re going to opine, begin with the truth and opine from there,” Smith said. Smith, now host of the nightly show “The News with Shepard Smith” at 7 pm ET on CNBC, told Amanpour that his presence on Fox became untenable as opinion shows on the network spread falsehoods that hosts knew were lies. and across the world from Mexico City to Canada, Antarctica to Africa, New Zealand to Australia and beyond,” ABC News president Kim Godwin said in a statement.Shep Smith, who left Fox News in October 2019 while in the middle of a three-year contract, has remained largely silent about his departure – until an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour that aired Tuesday. “With Somara among our ranks, I look forward to the unparalleled, continuing coverage of weather systems and climate change, expanding on our team’s on-the-ground reporting over the years from coast to coast within the U.S. In this new role at ABC News, Theodore will serve as the network’s third New York-based meteorologist, working alongside chief meteorologist and managing editor of ABC News’ climate unit Ginger Zee and senior meteorologist Rob Marciano. Prior to WRC-TV, Theodore was the morning meteorologist at WEWS-TV in Cleveland, where she won an Emmy for her morning weathercast of a deadly plane crash in Akron, Ohio. Additionally, she provided wall-to-wall coverage of Hurricane Ian this past September for MSNBC. Theodore has served on WRC’s Storm Team 4 for the past six years, reporting forecasts on the weekend-edition newscasts,, WTOP Radio as well as NBC’s Weekend Today.
Somara Theodore is moving from local to national news - leaving Washington D.C.’s NBC station WRC-TV to join ABC News as a meteorologist based in New York.
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