When it comes to his personal news consumption, Fox News’s Chris Wallace is old-school.
“I was not a fan of reading the news online,” he told Georgetown University students in an online conversation hosted by the school’s Institute of Politics & Public Service at the McCourt School of Public Policy.
“I suggest that everyone, at least once a day, read a news piece from the other side…at least that way you can challenge your preconceptions on these subjects.” @FoxNewsSunday‘s Chris Wallace in response to a question from a @Georgetown graduate student.
— Georgetown Politics (@GUPolitics) April 21, 2020
And it’s not that he’s averse to the internet, but more that he has a preference for the feel and flow of the paper and his daily routine like millions of other people. “I like to open the front door, get the newspaper, put it on the kitchen table as I’m having breakfast, and read it,” he said.
But the coronavirus has changed all that. “Now, I don’t want to get a newspaper because I’m afraid I’m going to have to disinfect it,” Wallace said, adding that he’s shifted to online news. “It works great,” he said. …
- American Idol this year has a link to the Special Forces. Top 20 contestant Aliana Jester’s father, James, is with the Green Berets. She told the Special Forces Charitable Trust that it was his dog she brought to meet the judges at her singing debut. She said that the French bulldog, Nova Lady, helped with her father’s PTSD and gave her confidence in winning her ticket to Hollywood. …
- Longtime political spokesman and editor Garrett Murch has opened his own communications shop, GCM Strategies, based in his home state of Maine. His stops have included the Heritage Foundation, LifeZette, and former Maine Gov. Paul LePage. “Words will always matter, and great ideas need great messaging,” he said. …
- Mike McCurry, former press secretary under President Bill Clinton, still regrets letting cameras cover the daily White House briefings live. “The mistake I made, I think, was that I didn’t impose an embargo on the briefing. I think, if I had said that there is no live broadcast of this — because this is not reality TV. This is not a TV show. This is a briefing. This is the information that you should use to go report on and check with other sources,” he said at a Politics and Prose Bookstore event.
