<\/a>Ashleigh Banfield<\/p><\/div>\n
In a presentation described as meandering, Compton said the changes set for March 1 were just the beginning of plans for a 24-hour news product. Though short on specifics, he was clear what's coming next will be different. \"What we're doing is friendly vanilla news and it's not working,\" he said according to two people in the room.<\/p>\n
Pudar's resignation and whether there were plans to replace her were never mentioned during the meeting, which lasted more than a hour.<\/p>\n
Compton told the group that Shine wasn't the only consultant working with NewsNation, but he declined to name others.<\/p>\n
In addition to Banfield and Donlon, he said other talk shows would soon be joining the lineup. (Rumors of interest in hiring Bill O'Reilly were flatly denied.) Plans for construction of a new studio also were revealed.<\/p>\n
\"We are not<\/em> going right,\" Compton declared at one point. \"But we want to give voices on the right something other networks won't show.\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After two decades as a senior executive at Fox News and a prot\u00e9g\u00e9 of chairman and CEO Roger Ailes, Bill Shine was fired in 2017 for his role in enabling the sexual harassment scandals that toppled Ailes and top-rated host Bill O'Reilly. Shine went on to become White House deputy chief of staff for communications... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28524"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28524"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28568,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28524\/revisions\/28568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}