Evening News Anchor @fox35orlando. Born in Alabama, raised in a newsroom. Husband, father. Lover of good people. Celebrate rarely, grind daily. Roll Tide.
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Jack Abernethy, the CEO of Fox's local broadcast unit, accepted an award by the Media Institute tonight and gave a speech on the First Amendment and the importance of local journalism.
"Free speech and free enterprise are deeply interconnected. Independent journalism requires financially-healthy news organizations. That means recognizing scale as a strength, not a threat.
For years, regulatory policy relied on 'diversity of voices,' the idea that simply multiplying the raw number of outlets in a market automatically guarantees a healthier public square.
Well, look at social media today — it gave us millions of 'voices,' but it didn't give us more local reporting or emergency coverage. It gave us noise, outrage and distrust.
A crowd of fragmented voices cannot replace two or three financially strong, trusted news organizations with the resources to investigate, verify, and serve a community. Marginally-profitable ones often cannot take on powerful interests, and will not. Scale isn’t the enemy of free speech — it’s the engine that pays for it."
Welcome to town, my friend. Roll Tide.
Awesome to see @JackRoyer still owning the anchor desk on @fox35orlando in central Florida! #BuiltByBama 🐘#GrindDaily 📺
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It was disappointing that @60Minutes, with all its resources and expertise, broke zero new ground on the Tina Peters story. The report was just a repetition of what local journalists reported long ago.
“Show me the evidence that the paper ballot results differed from the computerized results,” 60 Minutes’ Bill Whitaker asks Tina Peters, the former Colorado election official who served time for her role in a voting machine breach.
“My place is not to show, you know, pick out different things and what-- what could have happened,” Peters says. “I was authorized to protect the election records according to 52USC.70201.” cbsn.ws/3W6ZKFb
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In 2020, Tommy Tuberville promised to donate “every dime” of his $174,000 Senate salary to Alabama veterans and their families. A June investigation found no evidence he followed through, a pledge now worth roughly $1 million.
Tuesday night, after a reporter asked about it, Tuberville told staff to remove him. Then he called the media “socialists” and “communists.”
The MAGA senator had a reporter thrown out of a campaign dinner after being confronted with an embarrassing question.
thedailybeast.com/maga-senat…
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COMMENTARY: Amy Acton's childhood trauma is the subject of a $4 million ad buy from her rival Vivek Ramaswamy in the race for Ohio governor.
Perhaps voters didn’t become cynical about politics so much as politicians keep proving their cynicism right. #TheFinal5
THANK YOU Central Florida for making FOX 35 News at 10 NUMBER ONE! Our team is working hard every day… and I’m so fortunate to be on this team. 2 months down, many more to go! Thank you for trusting us and for welcoming me and my family.
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A reporter in Mobile tried to ask Tuberville if he donated his Senate salary to veterans as he promised. Tuberville had the cops kick him out.
Alabama Republican gubernatorial candidate Tommy Tuberville had law enforcement escort me out of tonight's Mobile campaign event while I tried to ask him a question.
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For those of you not from DC - this means runners, bicyclists, families, sightseers would all be displaced from Hains Point - so that a high-end golf course could be built minutes from the U.S. Capitol and White House.
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Exclusive: While planning a wedding and preparing for a move to China, @PressSec Katie Zacharia sat for the California bar exam but did not pass, a person with direct knowledge of the matter told the @WSJ.
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The jury awarded one of the former news directors nearly $2 million, and the other more than $2 million, per court records embedded in the story.
Two former news directors of a Nexstar-owned Michigan TV station have won a lawsuit against the broadcaster over their firings in 2023; the two were dismissed for writing and circulating a memo about the station's Pride Month coverage. thedesk.net/2026/10/amy-fox-… $NXST
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Utah senator on planned military execution to be aired live
Seneca warned that Rome’s bloody spectacles corrupted the people who watched them. A civilization erodes when it cultivates an appetite for executions as a form of entertainment.
Secretary Hegseth’s plan to livestream the Fort Hood execution risks feeding that appetite. The victims deserve justice administered with solemnity. Broadcasting a death diminishes us and is not an effective deterrent. I urge him to reconsider.
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Fox Weather is planning around-the-clock coverage of Hurricane #Isaías throughout the weekend; the storm is expected to make landfall Friday evening.
@FoxWeather is available pretty much anywhere you watch TV. thedesk.net/2026/10/fox-weat…
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This is absolutely wild per Status — ABC News completely retracted this story like two days ago just totally nuked it. No note, no explanation , no comment. It had been shared by tons of top lawmakers and democratic officials.
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Answering questions at the White House, President Donald Trump was asked if he was still going to the Alabama-Georgia game in light of the weather. Trump said he was unaware of the potential hurricane that could hit the state Saturday.
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In a rare interview, Jay Wallace, Fox News' president and exec editor, says Fox has bigger journalism ambitions, sees no reason to go after audiences for CBS News and CNN, and still believes being on TV requires a jacket and tie (in most cases)...
variety.com/2026/tv/news/fox…
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BIG FRONT: Continue to see signs for a big time fall front mid-October in the eastern U.S. and stretching all the way into Florida. Temps. into the 40s and 50s into Florida around Oct. 17/18 per the EURO AI.
Specific numbers TBD but signal is strong for this. Major drop in the humidity too!
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Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) says he's looking at running for POTUS in 2028.
Just know this: if that happens, we at #TheFinal5 will be ready to go, beginning with his greatest hits.
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Even if that’s what he meant, it didn’t stop the Grand Island, Nebraska crowd from cheering at the idea of taking out L.A or San Diego.
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David Ellison Asks CNN CEO Mark Thompson to Stay After Paramount-Warner Deal Closes. Bari Weiss will not have role at CNN at deal's close. wsj.com/business/media/ellis… via @WSJ
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Hard to imagine worse staff work. I mean the senator is ultimately accountable, but a staffer came up with this. Even worse if it was concocted/approved by committee staff, who tend to be more professional.
Republicans on the committee are going to be pissed because this will overshadow any points they were trying to make against Smith.
