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Just weeks after obtaining a front-row seat in the White House briefing room, Fox News’ Major Garrett has decided to leave the top-rated cable news network to return to his roots in print journalism.
Garrett announced on Wednesday that he would be leaving his post as Chief White House Correspondent for Fox News to join the National Journal. For a little over eight years, Garrett covered the White House for Fox News but recently he’s been caught in the middle of an increasingly antagonistic relationship between the network and the Obama administration. While critics have widely speculated that the tenuous relationship between the Democratic White House and the right-leaning political views of Fox News’ Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity influenced Garrett’s decision, the news veteran made it clear on Wednesday that that was not the case.
The hostility between the Obama administration and FNC “never wore me down,” Garrett told The Washington Post, but “of course it made my job more difficult. . . . I’d be a liar if I said otherwise.” More…
In describing his decision, Garrett has emphasized his general lack of interest in being a TV reporter. “I have no interest in being on television simply to be on television,” he told Mediaite on Wednesday. More…