Emerald Robinson is in the dog house bigly, these days. Her “bioluminescent Luciferase” in the COVID vaccine report earned her a seven-day timeout on Twitter. When she came back and started pushing the conspiracy theory exactly where she left off, Jack Dorsey brought down the ban hammer and Robinson is out for good on that platform. She may also be out for good at Newsmax, which took her off the air and gave her other duties. Newsmax was embarrassed plenty and that led to executive meetings and that is leading to some hiring decisions. Newsmax is looking to legitimize itself. Daily Beast:
One current staffer said that the consensus belief among network employees is that “she’s just going to be gone.” However, “nothing definitive” has been relayed to the newsroom. Another insider told The Daily Beast that Robinson is almost certainly done with Newsmax. (Sources said Robinson, who left OAN to join Newsmax only last year, may be an independent contractor and not a full-time employee—a not-so-unusual arrangement for Newsmax on-air personalities, as at least one other prominent correspondent and a weekday anchor are contractors.)
And now a former Fox correspondent appears in line to possibly take her job. According to two sources familiar with the matter, James Rosen has been in negotiations with Newsmax to become the network’s new chief D.C. correspondent. The veteran reporter has been to the network’s New York offices, the sources said, and the discussions have been ongoing for several months, preceding even the Robinson controversy. Rosen would come with his own personal baggage, however. After leaving Fox News in late 2017, after nearly two decades at the network, it was reported that his exit came after a string of sexual misconduct claims made against him, including allegedly groping and retaliating against female colleagues. […]
Christopher Wallace, who was at Fox News for nearly 15 years up until May, was hired in October to be Newsmax’s news director. Wallace, who is of no relation to the famed Fox News Sunday anchor who shares his name, spent nearly four years as the executive producer of Fox News @ Night with Shannon Bream. Before that, he was a senior producer for various Fox Business and Fox News programs. Between his time at Fox and Newsmax, he spent five months as an executive VP at the D.C. political news outlet The Hill.
Valeria Riccioli was a Fox News producer for 14 years before departing in February and, just last month, being named Newsmax’s vice president of talent. In her final two years at Fox, Riccioli was executive producer of the cable giant’s daytime “straight news” broadcast, titled America’s Newsroom. Prior to that, she had risen through the ranks of the show, moving from segment producer to line producer to senior producer before getting the top gig. […]
Newsmax sources labeled their hirings as “quite a shift,” noting that they demonstrated the network’s seemingly concerted effort to copy the Fox News formula of producing both allegedly “straight” news broadcasts alongside overtly right-wing opinion content.
Insiders suggested that humiliations like the Robinson ordeal plus multiple billion-dollar lawsuits from voting tech companies Smartmatic and Dominion—a consequence of Newsmax’s unhinged on-air election conspiracy theorizing—have undoubtedly galvanized a need for changes, no matter how slight.
That may send Emerald Robinson back to the talent agency where the GOP and right-wing media apparently finds a lot of its influencers/reporters, not to mention congress members.
Let’s remember Candace from the outset…
From the “Explore Talent” agency, along with Lauren Boebert. pic.twitter.com/ROV1lul6Y5— LoveLiteracy (@targteacher) October 22, 2021
Emerald Robinson is not a real correspondent, she’s a crisis actor. She’s from the same talent agency as Tomi Lahren, Lauren Boebert, Candace Owens and dozens of school board “protesters.” Brought to you by the oligarchs trying to create a fascist state. https://t.co/mcSReJdFUo
— Jeanne Vitale (@jeanne_vitale) November 4, 2021
In all fairness, some of the loonies that show up at the school boards may be paid but most of them are all too real. Plus, a number of right-wingers, including people who had been present at the Capitol on January 6 were actually elected to school boards earlier this month. It’s not all crisis acting, it is a very real threat.
Speaking of acting, I guess Robinson could go back to making epics like this one.
Water finds its own level. I feel very safe in saying that Robinson won’t be missed at the White House briefings.
You can dress up a turd, polish it with the finest wax for hours each day – despite all your best efforts it will stubbornly be what it was to begin with – A turd, though I’ll grant some may see the polish, smell the perfume applied and admire the silk in which it has been dressed and be fooled. Fact is, it is still a turd.