The people who work there aren't nearly as dumb as the viewers. Why didn't he quit 6 months ago? a year ago? 5 years ago? Why did he ever work for them? He could be leaving now for any number of reasons, but it's very unlikely to be because of some sudden realization, so don't count on anymore faux epiphanies, haha.
You aren't surprised by what fox is doing now, and you would have been had they not been as they are, because they assume whatever form the party takes. Fox is just a reflection, and you wouldn't say your mirror gets worse when you think you look uglier.
Of course I'm not surprised.
Anyone with any semblance of critical thinking has known that modern US conservatism has been nothing but radical, reactionary right-wing authoritarianism for over 20 years. And I mean, out-and-open right-wing authoritarianism. Described, hilariously out in the open by one of
the main handlers, Rush Limbaugh, and his self-proclaimed "dittoheads".
So, yeah, no shit. Objective observable reality, is, uh, objective, and observable.
Sure, the god damn hippies have been shouting this from the streets since the Nxon-to-Reagan catastrophe which was the beginning of this epic shitshow. But, as we all know, hippies are really only good for punching, especially by the corporate, BothSidesDoIt™, show-me-the-money media...which US conservatives have had to wage a pre-emptive war against to get their dittohead, re-programmable meatbags to automatically ignore. Hence the "libruul media" charge, which allows them to reflexively ignore any news that even remotely hints at objective, observable reality as "liberal lies", or now under Strongman Trump, "fake news".
Amazing propaganda. It really is.
Yes, this man could have quit in 1998. Or 2004. Or 2009. Or any time, really. If he had integrity.
But, as we all know, some people don't care about anything but money, power, and status. And over on Fox, they hand it out to anyone willing to toe the line.
That doesn't change the fact that this man's letter is essentially a letter that is directed directly at the rest of the cultists/Fox News viewers/right-wing authoritarian reactionaries who have listened to this man confirming their biases for the past 20+ years, and now have to use their incredible, super-poweresqe cognitive dissonance and projection abilities instilled into them by their handlers, to hand-wave it away.
That is what is valuable. Not this one man's "change of heart". This fucker is just trying to build a lifeboat to get away from the epic catastrophe he helped create. Fuck him, and his god damn lifeboat.
But the letter. Just one more piece of evidence piling up that, yes, Virginia, modern US conservatism is a right-wing authoritarian cult and is destroying the fuck out of the country, one election at a time.
You claiming that it doesn't matter is just an attempt to have people look away from the ongoing catastrophe and focus on this fuck head and his hubris, or whatever else that doesn't actually matter in the ongoing catastrophe.