Fox News Watch is a current events debate

Debate

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 program on the Fox News Channel

Fox News Channel

Fox News Channel , often called Fox News, is a cable and satellite television news channel owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a subsidiary of News Corporation...

, hosted by Jon Scott

Jon Scott

Jon Scott is an American television news anchor, co-hosting Happening Now from 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. ET with Jenna Lee on Fox News Channel.-Personal life and education:...

.

Format

The show features a panel composed of two conservatives

Right-wing politics

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 and two liberals

Left-wing politics

In politics, Left, left-wing and leftist generally refer to support for social change to create a more egalitarian society...

, moderated by Scott. Similar in premise to CNN

CNN

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's Reliable Sources

Reliable Sources

Reliable Sources is a weekly show on CNN, focusing on analysis of the American news media. It was initially created to cover the media's coverage of the Persian Gulf War, but has since also covered the media's coverage of the Valerie Plame affair, the War in Iraq, the outing of Mark Felt as Deep...

, the panel on Fox News Watch discusses how the media portrayed certain news stories from the previous week. Panelists also discuss the overall condition of the American news media, such as the newspapers, cable news networks, broadcast networks

Big Three Television Networks

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, and other popular news outlets.

Departures

On February 2, 2008, Eric Burns said that Neal Gabler had left the show to work for PBS and that Jim Pinkerton had left the show to work for Mike Huckabee

Mike Huckabee

Michael "Mike" Dale Huckabee is an American politician who served as the 44th Governor of Arkansas from 1996 to 2007. He was a candidate in the 2008 United States Republican presidential primaries, finishing second in delegate count and third in both popular vote and number of states won . He won...

. As of June 2008, Pinkerton had returned to the panel.

Burns' contract was not renewed and expired in Spring 2008. Burns reportedly said, "Fox News has told me that my contract will be terminated within the next 2 months, perhaps sooner. I was given no reason. It certainly has nothing to do with ratings; the last episode of Fox News Watch was the second highest-rated weekend show on on all 3 cable news networks and the program has almost been in the top 4 or 5. I have no theory, none, why they are getting rid of me. Although I heard rumors, I have never heard reasons." Burns was replaced by Jon Scott.

Hosts

• Eric Breindel
  Eric Breindel
  Eric M. Breindel was a neoconservative writer and former editorial page editor of the New York Post.He died of liver failure, having suffered from health problems throughout adulthood, as a result of AIDS, according to Michael Wolff in his book The Man Who Owns The News: Inside The Secret World Of...
  
   (1997–1998)
• Eric Burns
  Eric Burns
  Eric Alfred Burns is an American critic, writer, poet, columnist and Role Playing Game developer who lived in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire...
  
   (1998–2008)
• E. D. Hill
  E. D. Hill
  E. D. Hill is an American businessperson and journalist. She has been a news anchor and radio host who formerly worked for the Fox News Channel and now works with CNN...
  
   (2008)
• Jon Scott
  Jon Scott
  Jon Scott is an American television news anchor, co-hosting Happening Now from 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. ET with Jenna Lee on Fox News Channel.-Personal life and education:...
  
   (2008-)

Panelists

• Alan Colmes
  Alan Colmes
  Alan Samuel Colmes is an American radio/television host, liberal political commentator for the Fox News Channel, and blogger. He is the host of The Alan Colmes Show, a nationally syndicated talk-radio show distributed by Fox News Radio that also airs throughout the United States on Fox News Talk...
  
  
• Cal Thomas
  Cal Thomas
  John Calvin "Cal" Thomas is an American conservative syndicated columnist, pundit, author and radio commentator.-Life and career:...
  
  
• Rich Lowry
  Rich Lowry
  Richard A. Lowry is the editor of National Review, a conservative American news magazine, and a syndicated columnist.-Career:...
  
  
• Jim Pinkerton
• Judith Miller
  Judith Miller (journalist)
  Judith Miller is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist, formerly of the New York Times Washington bureau. Her coverage of Iraq's alleged Weapons of Mass Destruction program both before and after the 2003 invasion generated much controversy...
  
   (2008–present)
• Ellis Henican
  Ellis Henican
  Ellis Henican is a columnist at Newsday and AM New York as well as a political analyst on the Fox News Channel. He hosts a nationally syndicated weekend show on Talk Radio Network, is author of a New York Times Bestseller, and is the voice of "Stormy" on the hit Cartoon Network series Sealab...
  
  

Former Panelists

• Neal Gabler
  Neal Gabler
  Neal Gabler is a professor, journalist, author, film critic and political commentator.He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Michigan and holds advanced degrees in film and American culture.-Journalist:...
  
   (2002–2008)
• Laura Flanders
  Laura Flanders
  Laura Flanders is a British-American journalist who presents the current events show GRITtv, broadcast weekdays on Link and Free Speech TV....
  
   (1997–1998)
• Jeff Cohen
  Jeff Cohen (media critic)
  Jeff Cohen is a journalist, media critic, professor, and the founder of Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting , a media watchdog group in the US. He was formerly a lawyer for the ACLU and authored or co-authored five books that criticize media bias, mainly written with Norman Solomon...
  
   (1997–2002)
• Jane Hall
  Jane Hall (journalist)
  Jane Hall was one of four regular pundits on the Fox News Channel program Fox News Watch and frequently appeared on The O'Reilly Factor, usually having clashes with the host. She was a Fox News Channel contributor...
  
    (1997–2009)

Guest Panelists

• Ceci Connolly
• S.E. Cupp
  S.E. Cupp
  Sarah Elizabeth "S. E." Cupp is an American conservative political commentator and writer, co-author of the book Why You're Wrong About the Right with Brett Joshpe, and author of the book Losing Our Religion: The Liberal Media's Attack on Christianity.- Background:Cupp was born in Carlsbad,...
  
  
• Jon Scott
  Jon Scott
  Jon Scott is an American television news anchor, co-hosting Happening Now from 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. ET with Jenna Lee on Fox News Channel.-Personal life and education:...
  
  
• Rachel Sklar
  Rachel Sklar
  Rachel Sklar CNN contributor is a lawyer and New York-based media blogger.-Early Years:Sklar is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario where she was the Vice-President Communications of the University Students' Council, as well as a regular contributor to the campus newspaper, The Gazette...
  
  
• Juan Williams
  Juan Williams
  Juan Williams is an American journalist and political analyst for Fox News Channel, he was born in Panama on April 10, 1954. He also writes for several newspapers including The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal and has been published in magazines such as The Atlantic...
  
  
• Patricia Murphy
• Kirsten Powers
  Kirsten Powers
  Kirsten A. Powers is an American columnist, blogger, pundit, and political commentator. Powers is a Democratic political analyst on Fox News who appears regularly on shows such as The O'Reilly Factor, Fox News Sunday, Special Report with Bret Baier and Freedom Watch...
  
  
• David Corn
  David Corn
  David Corn is an American political journalist and author and the chief of the Washington bureau for Mother Jones. He has been Washington editor for The Nation and appeared regularly on FOX News, MSNBC, National Public Radio, and BloggingHeads.tv opposite James Pinkerton or other media...
  
  
• Joe Strupp
• Marisa Guthrie
• Andrea Tantaros
  Andrea Tantaros
  Andrea K. Tantaros is a political analyst and commentator on Fox News, Fox Business Channel and writes for the New York Daily News and Newsmax magazine. Her columns appear in the New York Daily News every Thursday.-Early life:...
  
  

Format

• Teaser
• In-depth discussion about a group of related stories
• "Quick Takes" (Short comments on three stories)
• Viewer Emails (currently not used)

External links

• Fox News Watch on FOXNews.com