Fox News Media and on-air personality Greg Gutfeld have reached a new multiyear contract extension that calls for him to continue as host of 10 p.m. show Gutfeld! and as co-host of afternoon talk show The Five.

Gutfeld, who has been with Fox News since 2007, will also host and produce Fox Nation programming. Gutfeld!, which celebrates its third anniversary Friday, averages 2.2 million viewers in its 10 p.m. time slot, according to Nielsen numbers supplied bu Fox News. 

The Five, which Gutfeld has co-hosted since its launch in 2011, averaged more than 3 million viewers during first-quarter 2024 and topped all programs on cable for the last 10 consecutive quarters, according to Fox News.

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“Greg is a true original whose trademark political and cultural commentary, humor and gifted writing has deeply connected and grown with our audience for more than 17 years,” Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott said in a statement. “Upon launching Gutfeld! three years ago, he rapidly disrupted the status quo to become the most-watched host in the genre with more viewers tuning in to his show than any other late-night program on television. We are proud to be the home of Greg, his unparalleled analysis and late-night’s highest-rated program for many years to come.”

Gutfeld added: “Since joining the network in 2007, Fox News has given me the freedom to be unabashedly myself and, in turn, deliver a distinct experience for our audience. There aren’t many platforms that allow this type of creative independence and I’m proud to be a part of Suzanne’s team.”

Former Democratic strategist Bob Beckel founding co-host of Fox News Channel's The Five has died, his former colleagues said in a tribute on Tuesday's show (February 22).

The cause of death was not available at press time.

Beckel joined Fox News in 2000 as a contributing political analyst, then signed on as host of The Five when it launched in 2011. He rejoined the network in 2011 as one of the originating co-hosts of The Five, leaving briefly for CNN before returning.

The Five features a mostly conservative or libertarian panel with a Democrat in the mix, these days frequently Geraldo Rivera or Harold Ford.

"Bob was one of a kind, a political legend and a great friend to many of us at Fox and at this table. We will miss him dearly," said Dana Perino, a Five co-host now as she was with Beckel when the show launched.

"I've never been given the finger by a nicer guy," said co-host Jesse Waters. ■

Fox News has named Jeanine Pirro as a full-time co-host of its afternoon political talk show The Five, the network said Wednesday. 

Pirro, who has served as a substitute co-host for the show since 2020, will join Dana Perino, Greg Gutfeld and Jesse Watters on the show beginning January 24, according to the network.  Pirro will no longer host her Saturday night series, Justice with Judge Jeanine as of January 22, said the network.

In addition, Fox News also announced that Harold Ford Jr., Geraldo Rivera, and Jessica Tarlov will serve as rotating co-hosts on the show, officially replacing Juan Williams as the liberal voice on the show. Williams left The Five last May. 

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“The Five continues to be a beloved show by the American audience,” Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott said in a statement. “Each of the co-hosts are accomplished and insightful talent with diverse opinions and terrific chemistry who will certainly help drive this ensemble program going forward.” ■ 

Dr. Anthony Fauci called for Jesse Watters, co-host of Fox News Channel's opinion show The Five, to be fired over comments he made about Fauci, a top White House COVID-19 adviser, at a conservative conference.

Watters talked about ambushing Fauci with a question about U.S.-funded research at a Chinese lab, saying that would be a kill shot, ostensibly for Fauci's reputation, but continuing the sniper metaphor in reference to a public official who has received actual death threats. Watters was providing advice on how to capture a "viral moment" of confrontation with Fauci, who Watters has criticized for his advice on pandemic safety.

Fauci, being interviewed on CNN following Watters' Dec. 20 appearance at Turning Point USA's AmericaFest conference in Phoenix, said all he has done has been to promote health safety and that Watters' comments were awful and probably would go unpunished by his media outlet, though he said he thought Watters should be "fired on the spot."
Fox News signaled that was not likely to happen. 

"Based on watching the full clip and reading the entire transcript, it’s more than clear that Jesse Watters was using a metaphor for asking hard-hitting questions to Dr. Fauci about gain-of-function research and his words have been twisted completely out of context," Fox News said in a statement. 

During The Five's Tuesday broadcast, Watters continued to criticize Fauci and the president's response to COVID-19. ■

Fox News Channel‘s political panel show The Five was celebrating Tuesday (Nov. 2) after October ratings numbers showed that, for the first time in its 10-year history, it was the highest-rated cable news program in total viewers, according to Fox News.

The panelists did not let the moment pass without noting it on Tuesday‘s show. The show's panelists include principal hosts Jesse Waters, Greg Gutfeld and Dana Perino, plus a rotating cast of regulars that includes Dagen McDowell, Emily Compagno, Katie Pavlich, Geraldo Rivera, Judge Jeannine Pirro, and Harold Ford Jr.

The 5 p.m. hour recorded 3,108,000 total viewers for the month of October, as well as 435,000 viewers 25-54 and 280,000 18-49, topping rivals CNN and MSNBC in all categories for that time period.

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The Five's Greg Gutfeld also has an 11 p.m. show, Gutfeld!, that has been scoring with viewers. The show was the top rated cable show at 11 p.m. with 1.9 million viewers, beating time period competition Don Lemon Tonight and MSNBC's 11th Hour with Brian Williams.

Fox News talk program The Five marks 10 years on the air on July 11. Dana Perino, Greg Gutfeld and Jesse Watters co-host, and Juan Williams departed the program in late May. Perino mentioned how the show launched as a five-week temporary program, so no one could’ve imagined it still being on in 2021. 

“We’ve done a lot, been through a lot of stories,” said Perino, who was White House press secretary under President George W. Bush. “We’ve all grown professionally and personally.”

The hosts get more comfortable in their roles on the 5 p.m. show every day, according to Gutfeld, who launched a late-night show called Gutfeld! in April. “We’ve gotten looser and more surprising as we get more comfortable with ourselves,” he said. “There’s no difference between the way we are on that table and the way we are off the table.”

“I’m just as cranky and annoying,” Gutfeld added. 

Perino credited Gutfeld for helping her find her voice. As a professional spokesperson, she said she rarely spoke what was on her own mind. “I never really expressed my personal opinion about policy, and policies in my life,” she said. “Greg helped me come out of my shell.”

She mentioned a discussion on the program years ago about legalizing marijuana. Gutfeld asked Perino what she thought, and she defaulted to talking points from her time in the Bush camp. Gutfeld pushed back. “He said, no, what do you think?” said Perino. “I felt like I was on a high wire without a net.”

Jesse Watters came on the show four years ago, so most of his time on The Five was during the Trump presidency. “The Trump term for The Five, I would call it eventful,” he said. “Every day was a blockbuster. There was never a dearth of content. Sometimes the rundown would change midday, depending on what Trump would say about people, what people would say about Trump.”

It’s different now. “We’re covering a president who doesn’t make news,” Watters said of President Biden, adding that Biden “doesn’t say much, doesn’t do much — it’s his political strategy.”

The show has pivoted with the White House change, he added. “It’s more cultural, more policy from different angles,” said Watters. 

The hosts went remote due to the pandemic in the spring of 2020, with Williams in a van in front of his home in Washington, Perino at home in New Jersey, and Watters at a Jersey beach house. Gutfeld, for the most part, still came into the Manhattan headquarters. A guest host fills out the five on The Five. 

They returned to the set June 1, a vital arrangement for a show built on host chemistry. “It means everything,” said Gutfeld. “The show wasn’t The Five when we were remote.”

It was a fun show, he added, but a different show. 

Hosts talk about eye contact and body language when on the set together, aspects that were almost impossible to factor in when remote. “There’s an ease and flow of conversation you can’t get when you’re in separate rooms,” said Perino. 

Perino said of the show’s chemistry, “you can’t manufacture it. You have it or you don’t.”

Watters said he was initially happy to be at his beach house, but is pleased to be back on the set with his co-hosts. “Conversations are more conversational,” he said. “It’s less delivering monologues and staring at the screen.”

The co-host chemistry is built on the set. They don’t hang out outside of work, according to Gutfeld. “Jesse has his kids, Dana has her dogs, and I have my collection of fine cheeses,” he quipped. 

The program garners a substantial audience. The Five averaged 2.6 million total viewers in the second quarter, and 385,000 in the 25-54 demo. 

Williams was the liberal voice on The Five. A rotating group of co-hosts are filling in until a replacement is named. Jessica Tarlov, Harold Ford Jr. and Geraldo Rivera have appeared. 

The new host will push the current ones to consider new concepts. “Someone who has great energy and a fun attitude,” said Perino. “Someone who has smart things to say that challenges people’s thinking, including my own.”

Watters said Williams “played a critical role.”

“It was fun to have someone to bounce things off and argue with and try to persuade,” he added. “Though I’m not sure I persuaded him on anything.”

In terms of highlights across the tenure of The Five, Watters mentions road trips, such as doing the show from Miami during Super Bowl weekend and Nashville. Perino brings up the closing “One More Thing” segments, and road trips as well. Gutfeld mentioned any time Perino swears, faces Watters makes when he feels like he said “something awful”, and the time Gutfeld did the show with a knot on the head after being hit by a door just before the day’s program began. 

Can The Five go another 10? The hosts hope so. “We didn’t even think it would go ten weeks,” said Gutfeld. “The fact that we’re having this conversation is almost surreal. It could go another ten years, who knows?”

Juan Williams announced on Fox News's The Five Wednesday that it would be his last day co-hosting the popular show.

Fox said The Five will be returning to the Fox headquarters in New York City June 1 and will feature "rotating liberal co-hosts until a liberal replacement for Juan is named."

Williams, who has been the resident Democrat on the panel, said he would continue to be a political analyst for Fox, working out of D.C. The Five is based in New York.

He pointed out he had been co-hosting for almost seven years.

The show ended with a montage of moments from those seven years, including Williams' proud family portraits and one show when he suggested he wanted to hug Greg Gutfeld, which would require bridging a sizable political divide.

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Co-host Dana Perino said it had been an honor and pleasure to work with Williams and that he would be missed, a sentiment shared by the rest of the panel, including Jesse Waters, with whom Williams arguably most vociferously disagreed on most issues.

Williams, who is a 2021 CultureX Award recipient, first joined Fox News in 1997 as a contributor.

"We are incredibly grateful for his commitment to the show and its success over the last several years," said Megan Albano, VP for The Five and weekend programming. "As we started planning The Five’s return to its New York City studio at our headquarters a few months ago, Juan decided to stay in Washington, D.C. permanently. We accommodated his request, understanding and appreciating his desire to remain closer to his family and recognizing that a remote co-hosting role on a roundtable in-studio program was not a long-term option. While we will miss his insightful contributions each night and look forward to welcoming him on set whenever he’s in New York, we are pleased to have him continue his longtime role as a senior political analyst with Fox News Media.”

As an accomplished TV news journalist, radio host, newspaper reporter and author, Fox News on-air host Juan Williams has participated in an industry’s slow evolution toward greater inclusion and acceptance of diverse images and viewpoints over his career of more than five decades. 

Currently co-host of Fox News Channel’s political news program The Five, Williams has offered a unique perspective on breaking news and current events since joining the then-nascent network in 1997. 

Williams, who has authored books about the African-American experience including Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965 and Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary, will be honored at the CultureX Conversations event (March 16) for Talent Reflection of Inclusion in Television. 

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In an interview, Williams said he was recently reminded that the industry still has a ways to go in its diversity efforts. In 2020, PBS initially invited Williams to speak as part of a show about that summer’s racial protests following the May death of George Floyd. Before he could respond to the invitation, it was withdrawn, because the producer felt Williams’s Panamanian ancestry excluded him from the African American centered conversation. 

“If someone who has written best-selling books on this very topic, regardless of the person’s birthplace, you would think that’s a source of information and perspective,” Williams said. “Yet here you have a white PBS host turning away from somebody on the basis of their birthplace. It’s just bizarre.” 

Progress Proceeding Slowly 

Williams does feel the media business has become more diverse, with more change on the way. 

“I’m 66 years old now, so I’ve seen a lot of transitions,” he said. “It’s almost like Forrest Gump — he finds himself at various moments in history and these transitions. There’s been a tremendous transition since I started on the print side as an intern at the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. When we think about race and ethnic diversity in terms of staffing, it’s been an incredible shift.” 

Prior to Fox News, Williams worked for a decade at National Public Radio after working 23 years as a writer for The Washington Post. 

“When I was coming along, if you saw someone like [syndicated news host] Tony Brown, it really stood out, because there was just about no one else,” Williams recalled. “That was true on the local and national news side.” 

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‘Change Is Coming’ 

“Change has come in very small increments, but it is coming,” Williams said. “It’s something that’s been difficult, because America media is a power base, and it's hard for people to welcome newcomers to power and to cede power, and information is power. Part of that information is what the person who is giving you that information is saying, what he looks like and what their perspective on the news is. This is all part of what I call the changing face of America.” 

He agreed with the premise that he, as a person of color and having a more liberal leaning political perspective, has helped expand the Fox News audience. 

“I think there’s no doubt about it, and I have some interesting ways of judging that fact,” Williams said. “I’m a real human being. I go outside, go to church, to the ballgame, pass through the train station, go to the airport and to the grocery store. So people, especially Fox News’s most ardent viewers, come up to me and say ‘I don't agree with you, but I like you.’ This is so interesting. It’s like I am given permission in their mind to come into their home, and I am an alternative point of view that they value. To me this is tremendous because it means I have some value in the overall package that is Fox News. 

“The second part of that is I run into minorities who have a liberal political perspective and maybe don’t watch Fox News often, but what they say is, ‘Thank God you’re there. I’m glad someone is there to challenge people and to raise another point of view.’ 

“The demographics of the country are undergoing a tremendous shift,” Williams observed. “I think now the census has it at about 40% of the American population made up of people of color and heading higher. We've never been there before. If you look at the young people in the country, disproportionately over 50% of people under 18 are people of color, which is a huge audience. 

“So if you look at everything from movies to news to television and music, you see that increasingly the successful organizations are the ones satisfying a more diverse market and population. 

“When we come out of this pandemic phase and start getting open again — especially in the aftermath of what happened last summer — I think now we are compelled in terms of business interests to do a better job of representing different perspectives with this increasingly Fox News diverse demographic.”

Fox News on Monday said it is revamping its daytime lineup beginning Monday, Jan. 18. 

Under the new schedule, Bill Hemmer Reports host Bill Hemmer will team with Dana Perino to host a two-hour edition of America’s Newsroom beginning at 9 a.m. At 11 a.m., Harris Faulkner will host a new show The Faulkner Focus, followed by her current news roundtable series Outnumbered at noon. 

At 1 p.m., network White House Correspondent John Roberts will join current America’s Newsroom host Sandra Smith for a new two-hour program, America Reports, while The Story, hosted by Martha MacCallum, will air at 3 p.m., followed by Your World with Neil Cavuto at 4 p.m. and The Five at 5 p.m. 

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Special Report With Bret Baier will remain in the 6 p.m. time slot, with a new series, Fox News Primetime, premiering at 7, where MacCallum's show is currently. The network will rotate a group of Fox News opinion hosts for the show before eventually settling on a permanent opinion host.

Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott said in a statement that the new schedule “ensures Fox News Media will continue to deliver outstanding coverage for our viewers who depend on the most trusted names in the business.”

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Fox News was the most watched cable network in July on both a primetime and total day basis, according to Nielsen.

The cable news network averaged 3.2 million viewers in primetime during the period of June 29-July 26, a record for the network in the month of July, said Nielsen. MSNBC finished a distant second with 2 million viewers, followed by CNN’s 1.5 million watchers.

HGTV and TLC tied for fourth with 1.2 million viewers, followed by TBS (906,000 viewers), Hallmark Channel (881,000), History (814,000), Food Network (793,000), and USA Network (721,000).

Fox News drew 1.6 million viewers on a 24-hour basis to win the category for the 49th consecutive month, according to Nielsen. MSNBC, CNN, HGTV and Hallmark Channel all finished among the top five most-watched cable networks during the period in total day, according to Nielsen. 

Fox News Channel daily show The Five, featuring five co-hosts discussing the news of the day, is built on the banter of its personalities. But in this work-from-home time, the remote talent has to work a bit harder to make the banter happen.

“What makes The Five a success is the chemistry, the back and forth,” said co-host Greg Gutfeld. “It’s what people come to see. If we’re not in the same room, it reduces our ability to read faces and moods.”

Co-host Juan Williams sets up in a van parked in front of his home in Washington, D.C. Co-host Dana Perino is working out of a bedroom in her New Jersey home. Jesse Watters, also a co-host, is in a beach house in New Jersey.

Gutfeld is actually schlepping to the midtown Manhattan studio each day. He sports a mask heading into and out of the office every day, washes his hands “like a crazy person,” he said, and does not socialize with co-workers.

“I like to go to the office every day,” Gutfeld said. “I really do enjoy leaving the house and going in.”

Executive producer Megan Albano is also working out of the Fox News headquarters.

Keeping Busy at Home

Williams mentioned an “ordinary white van” that pulls up in front of his house each day around 2:30 or 3 p.m. Since late March, he’s been climbing in for the 5 p.m. show.

Williams normally spends Monday-Friday in New York to shoot The Five. In the days after the coronavirus took hold, Williams would go to Fox’s Washington bureau each day. Recently turning 66, he said, “I don’t think there’s any reason for me to have unnecessary exposure.”

Perino has been working from home since March 23. She shoots The Daily Briefing with Dana Perino at 2 p.m., reads to children for the online segment “Story Time with Dana Perino,” shoots The Five at 5 p.m. and records a podcast. She upgraded her house’s WiFi to accommodate both her and her husband working from home.

Some viewers have noticed the train that zooms by near her house, tooting its horn.

“I’ve actually been able to fulfill all of my responsibilities in a pretty seamless way,” Perino said.

Watters began working from home last week. One hitch saw the show start without Watters, who was having WiFi issues. That worked out after a few minutes. Garbage bags are used to keep the sunlight out of the house. Watters got some laughs on the program last week when he revealed his pink shorts along with a suit jacket and tie.

“It’s a beachy vibe, but it works pretty well,” he said of his home studio.

Besides enjoying going to work, Gutfeld noted how pretty much everything works once he gets there. Garbage bags are not needed in the windows at 1211 Avenue of the Americas. “Everything is there, and you know it’s going to work,” he said.

In a nod to social distancing, Albano said the show shot on two floors in mid-March. Today, two control rooms dictate the action.

Much of the public has become accustomed to Zoom meetings and social gatherings since the pandemic took over, and the funky delays that make conversing challenging. Albano calls the remote hosts on The Five “a real-life scenario.”

The hosts deal with a one- to two-second delay that can make the quick quips a bit harder to deliver. “It’s just not as smooth,” Albano said.

Watters described not being able to read body language from home. “Our show is built around banter, around our close proximity on the set,” he said. “With a two-second delay, the quick retorts don’t translate as well.”

Perino, for her part, mentioned “verbal bumper cars” at times taking place.

The awkward pauses aside, Williams said the remote setup and its delays have pushed everyone to be a better listener. “We’re forced to listen to each other more intently,” he said.

More Viewers Tuning in

Ratings for The Five have skyrocketed. The 5 p.m. hour is challenging from those who work 9 to 5, but most of those folks are stuck in their homes. “People are home, and they’re invested in the story,” Albano said. “Hopefully they get some comfort in watching The Five.”

The show averaged 3.87 million total viewers in March, up 53% from March 2019. Daily briefings from President Donald Trump have helped ratings too.

Inconveniences aside, the hosts of The Five said they’re happy to be working with so many layoffs across the country. “We’re incredibly lucky to be working,” said Gutfeld.

They hope they add a bit of levity to viewers’ lives at this trying time. “We try to make everyone else’s lives at home a little less boring,” Gutfeld said.

Fox News Monday officially announced the Oct. 30 launch of its new primetime news program The Ingraham Angle, starring conservative talk personality Laura Ingraham.

The series will debut in the daily 10 p.m. timeslot on the network, moving the Sean Hannity-hosted series Hannity to the 9 p.m. slot, where it will go head to head with MSNBC’s top rated series The Rachel Maddow Show.

Fox News talk show series The Five, which currently airs at 9 p.m., will move back to its former 5 p.m. time slot, according to Fox.

The move comes nearly two weeks after Fox News cancelled its 5 p.m. show The Fox News Specialists after that show's host Eric Bolling parted ways with the network after sexual harrassment allegations surrounding Bolling surfaced. 

 “We are delighted to unveil this new primetime schedule for both our current and future generation of loyal FNC fans,” said Suzanne Scott, Fox news president of programming in a statement. “Over the last decade, Laura’s extraordinary insight, expertise and strong voice have connected with our viewers across the network’s programming. We look forward to her providing the audience with her exceptional commentary, engaging insight and spirited debate.”

According to Fox News, The Ingraham Angle will feature Ingraham as she challenges decision makers to focus on everyday, hard-working Americans as well as highlight the importance of faith in our nation and reveal stories that showcase the American spirit.

The announcement comes as Fox News remains among the most watched networks on cable television. The network was the highest rated network in primetime this past summer and has either held or shared the top spot on the weekly primetime cable ratings charts for the last 16 weeks, according to Nielsen. 

Fox News Channel was hit with another lawsuit by a woman claiming she was treated improperly by the network and its former chairman Roger Ailes.

The new suit was filed by Julie Roginsky, a paid on-air contributor to Fox News since 2011. It names Fox, Ailes and network co-president Bill Shine as defendants.

The suit comes nearly a year after Ailes was forced out of his powerful position because of a series of sexual harassment complaints, which the network has spent at least $30 million settling.

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Over the weekend, The New York Times published a story outlining a number of complaints that have also been made against Bill O’Reilly, the host of FNC’s top-rated shows. The Times said O’Reilly and the network have paid out $13 million in settlements.

Fox News and its parent, 21st Century Fox are being investigated to see if they properly disclosed to shareholders that these payments were made.

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In her suit, filed Monday in New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan, Roginsky alleges that FNC and Ailes discriminated against her “on the basis of her gender by making her deserved promotion to a regular spot hosting The Five contingent upon having a sexual relationship with Ailes."

“Fox News and Ailes thereafter retaliated against Plaintiff when she refused to have a sexual relationship with Ailes," the suit states. "Shine aided and abetted the discrimination and retaliation by Fox News and Ailes by failing to take reasonable measures to protect Roginsky from, and condoning, the unlawful conduct.”

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New York – When it comes to helping heal a divided nation, two members of The Five on Fox News Channel recommend a healthy exchange of disparate views – and plenty of listening.

Juan Williams and Kimberly Guilfoyle, who sometimes spar with each other on their 5-p.m. daily show, praised the merits of dialogue and keeping an open mind at The Diversity Discussion on Tuesday. Their conversation with R. Thomas Umstead of Multichannel News followed Univision anchor Maria Alena Salinas saying the presidential election’s surprising outcome left many people “crying and afraid.” 

Guilfoyle, who has more of a conservative bent than Williams on the show, said the media has a chance to improve on how the country is covered with lessons learned from Donald Trump’s victory. “There is room for growth in all of us and across all of these platforms, to be able to make sure that we are hearing each other, that we are understanding exactly what’s going on across the country. So that people don’t wake up on election day and say, ‘Wait, what just happened? We weren’t prepared for it. We didn’t understand. There wasn’t a dialogue there, or there wasn’t the coverage to show perhaps how this evolved and what occurred.’ ”

Guilfoyle also said it would be helpful for the president-elect to “reach out to these communities that did feel that they were disenfranchised or being singled out” in the election.

She said she and Williams “I think … both remain optimistic and positive” Trump will take that opportunity. 

Williams said formats like The Five in which people of differing viewpoints talk, debate and have “legitimate discourse that could lead to common understanding” can help at a time when people turn to information and opinion sources that support their own views (and prejudices).  “What’s critical is in the midst of that that they would be able to hear a different idea, a different story, a different perception,” Williams said.

Viewers tend to tune to Fox News longer than other channels, which Williams said was “because they want to hear the end of the story,” equivalent to a “driveway moment” at his former employer, NPR.