Last night senior Fox News correspondent Adam Housley resigned from the network. While Housley didn’t besmirch the network in any way, Politico is claiming that Housley was unhappy with the direction the network was headed:
Adam Housley, a Los Angeles-based reporter who joined Fox in 2001, felt there was diminished opportunity at the network for reporters and disapproved of tenor of its on-air discussion, according to two former Fox News employees with knowledge of his situation.
Housley believed that as the network’s focus on Trump has grown — and the number of talking-head panels during news shows proliferated — it had become difficult to get hard reporting on air, according to one of those former employees.
“He’s not doing the type of journalism he wants to be doing,” the former employee said. “And he is unhappy with the tone of the conversation of the channel.”
If that’s how he feels, you wouldn’t know it from anything he’s said or done as he resigned.
Also this former employee – could it be Connor Powell?
Here’s Housley’s statement via Mediaite:
“After nearly two decades at Fox News, I have decided to leave the network and take some time in northern California to raise our two young children closer to my family, which includes running the family winery and even coaching their sports teams,” Housley said in a statement. “I could not be more proud of the journalism I did at the network, from war zones, to tsunamis, to watching miners pulled from the ground in Chile, I am grateful for the extraordinary opportunities to have a front seat to history and cover news all over the world. A huge hank you to the many Fox employees, especially behind the scenes, who have supported me every step of the way. We are friends for life.”
And here is a few of his tweets from last night:
Shocking. My leaving Fox News quickly gets political on Twitter. Yep..the sad world we live in. I’m sure gonna enjoy that glass of wine while the polarized in this country duke it out. Maybe one day…one day we can find common ground first rather than just call names
— Adam Housley (@adamhousley) August 24, 2018
Meantime…thank you to the massive amount of tweets of support. Thank you for watching me and our crews cover news. Did the best I could to get as much honest and accurate info as possible. #fondmemories for sure
— Adam Housley (@adamhousley) August 24, 2018
People…I’m still gonna tweet. I still get stories and love news and will stay connected, just with a whistle in my mouth during practice and a glass of wine in my hand once the kids go down 🍷
— Adam Housley (@adamhousley) August 24, 2018
Exactly RT @jeannetredway: @adamhousley You did a fantastic job ! I will greatly miss your reporting actual news stories with a true passion for every story you did. Enjoy your family, jobs can come and go but your children will only be little once and it goes by so fast.
— Adam Housley (@adamhousley) August 24, 2018
Hey may be unhappy, but it really does seem like he wants to be there to see his kids grow up.
So take Politico’s reporting for what you will.