MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Another on-air reporter is leaving Fox News over frustrations with the direction and tone of the network, the second in the last three weeks to defect for those reasons. 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…Housley’s objections to the Trump-era Fox News are widely shared within the network’s reporting corps, according to current and former employees of the network. Conor Powell, the former Fox News Jerusalem bureau reporter, left the network earlier this month for similar reasons, according to a person close to him. ‘People are losing their minds,’ one current Fox News personality said, adding that reporters have relayed in conversation that the climate for them is worse than ever before.”
–Jason Schwartz, “Second Fox News reporter leaves amid objections to network,” Politico, August 23, 2018 11:37 pm