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They're worried about who else may be going as a result of shep's departure. they're not necessarily journalists. some are opinion people who feel this is a massive, massive loss for the network. all around, the few people i've spoken to, more than a few, the number of people i've spoken to have all been very depressed about this news. nobody that i spoke to was high-fiving. >> that's more on the journalist sides of fox. there are detracktators that he had at fox. they said he was only on the hour an hour a day. he wasn't that much of a leader. i wonder, connor, if you agree. how important is ...

One bit for walking away from this if he can, you know, and obviously he can afford to do it with the contracts he's had the last few years -- >> $15 million. yeah. yeah. >> really that's one of the ways fox management getting into bed with trump hurts the network long term. this is a severe blow to its credibility when you lose shep. i'll tell you something else, we haven't -- that hasn't been much discussed is it was -- fox likes to say, oh, during the day it's all news, at night it's opinion, blah, blah, blah. it isn't all news during the day. a lot of those shows, those news shows, look li...

Shep now gone, what fox has said is they are going to be a rot e rotating series of hosts. "f tho "if those are people like bill hemm hemmer, hosts that do news, if they're journalists, it will be a good sign for the 3:00 hour. if it's not, if it's opinion mavens, that will be another big chunk of real journalism that won't exist there. >> yeah, and there's other hours, the right-wing conspiracy theories. look at jeanine pirro's show, she had president trump call in for a softball interview last night. there was also a left-wing conspiracy theory out there about shep smith, and i want to debun...

Hey, i'm brian stelzer. it's time for "reliable sources." our weekly look at the story behind the story. how the media works and the news gets made and how to make it better. "catch and kill" by ronan farrow has news about matt lauer, nbc executives, and what he calls a corporate cover-up. it is an incredible read. our guests will have reaction. plus, peter wenner, bush aid, says the condition is delining. the legendary journalist sam donaldson and so much more. we start with a real shock to the television system. shep smith resigning from fox

The democrats. and i wonder if political pundits sometimes underestimate the storytelling power that both trump and fox have. >> yeah. i mean, i think that it's hard for a lot of people that are not in that right-wing bubble to understand trump's power over people because his story doesn't make sense to us. but i think what you're seeing is a lot of white conservative people who used to be the masters of the universe in this country, who used to control this country legally, politically, businesswise, culturally, and now are starting to see that hedge money talented. and donald trump tells the...