We honestly need more news reporters like Kari Lake. The Arizona news anchor threw in her hat at Fox 10 saying that she hasn’t ‘felt proud to be a member of the media’ in years. Lake describes her disgust with the one-sided coverage and tailored stories saying that she just didn’t feel like she was reporting the truth.
Lake is part of the old guard of news anchors. The 22-year news veteran says she refuses to bend her morals for comfort and trusts that God will open new doors for her.
“In the last few years, I haven’t felt proud to be a member of the media. I’m sure there are other journalists out there who feel the same way,” she said in the video. “I found myself reading news copy that I didn’t believe was fully truthful, or only told part of the story, and I began to fear that I was contributing to the fear and division in this country by continuing on in this profession. It’s been a serious struggle for me and I no longer want to do this job anymore.”
“The media needs more balance in coverage and a wider range of viewpoints represented in every newsroom at every level and at each position,” she says in the 2-and-a-half-minute video. “In the last few years, I haven’t felt proud to be a member of the media. I’m sure there are other journalists out there who feel the same way.”
Nearly two years ago, Lake was hit with a ton of backlash for her support and membership to a conservative social media platform. The left tried to rip the anchor apart for not conforming to the left agenda and I can only imagine what her every-day was like as she showed up to report news she felt wasn’t ‘accurate’.
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Back in 2019, Lake promoted the conservative platform ‘Parler’ on her Twitter account. She then received backlash from her co-host on behalf of management who told Lake the higher-ups were unhappy with her choices. The co-host told Lake that management wanted her to take it down and suggested that New Times would rip her apart for promoting a ‘far-right’ platform.
Lake snapped back, “F*ck them. They’re 20-year-old dopes,” Lake was referring to the hacks at New Times. “That’s a rag for selling marijuana ads.” You can watch that here.