Explaining his decision to leave the network, former Fox News anchor Chris Wallace told The New York Times, “I just no longer felt comfortable with the programming at Fox.”
Wallace already stood out at Fox as an anchor who did not always push the blindly pro-Trump narrative favored by many at the channel. But Wallace said in an interview published Sunday that he knew it was time to leave when people at the network “began to question the truth.”
Explaining his decision to leave the network, former Fox News anchor Chris Wallace told The New York Times, “I just no longer felt comfortable with the programming at Fox.”
Wallace already stood out at Fox as an anchor who did not always push the blindly pro-Trump narrative favored by many at the channel. But Wallace said in an interview published Sunday that he knew it was time to leave when people at the network “began to question the truth.”
Wallace acknowledged criticism that he stayed at Fox for so long despite the network’s track record. “Some people might have drawn the line earlier, or at a different point,” Wallace said. But, he added that he believes Fox made a particularly dramatic shift since the 2020 election. A Fox representative did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Rolling Stone.
“I think Fox has changed over the course of the last year and a half,” Wallace said. “But I can certainly understand where somebody would say, ‘Gee, you were a slow learner, Chris.’”
