Shepard Smith signed new Fox News deal after worrying about what would replace him

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Fox News anchor Shepard Smith, who heads the network’s 3 p.m. newscast, said he just signed a new multi-year contract because he worried about what type of programming Fox News would put in his place if he were to leave.

“To stop doing it would be bad because I think that there is a need for it, and I know the degree to which we care about it and focus on it and we want it to be as perfect as it can be,” he said in an interview with Time magazine published Thursday. “And I wonder, if I stopped delivering the facts, what would go in its place in this place that is most watched, most listened, most viewed, most trusted? I don’t know.”

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