‘Ashamed ‘ U.S. military analyst quits Fox News gig

A military analyst for Fox News said Tuesday he was quitting the network because he believed it had turned into a propaganda machine for President Donald Trump’s administration. Ralph Peters, a retired U.S. Army officer, said he told Fox that he did not want his contract renewed. “Over my decade at Fox, I was long proud of the association,” Peters wrote in an email that was distributed to colleagues at Fox News, and first reported by Buzz Feed News. “Now I am ashamed.” Fox said in a statement that the network did not want attributed to a specific spokesperson that Peters was entitled to his opinion, “despite the fact that he’s choosing to use it as a weapon in order to get attention.” Fox said it was proud of its opinion programming and prime-time hosts.