Former producer Allysia Britton told me the newsroom was “mostly liberal,” but people stayed for a paycheck or because they couldn’t get hired elsewhere after OAN. Capitol, tired of perpetuating dangerous lies. Numerous OAN employees left after the Jan. It’s also a reminder that extremism can’t spread without complicity by others. Sharp’s career embodies the banality of white male supremacy, rooted in fevered consumption of fictions about white “heroes” and knights. That view, he told me, “could not be further from the truth.” It’s time to strike!” He later deleted his Instagram account, and said in an email to me that he was commenting on DMV bureaucracy. In 2019, Sharp posted a picture on Instagram of mostly brown faces at the DMV and called it a “dystopian vision of the future.” He “loved” a comment that said: “They’re all occupied on their cell phones and drugs. OAN’s president Charles Herring stood by the station’s reporting, writing to me, “Open discussion and debate is critical to the on-going health of our democracy, and helps prevent one-sided narratives which may not reflect the truth.” He called the fact-checking process at OAN “robust,” stating it “includes management review.” Herring.” In an email to me, Sharp characterized colleagues’ pushback as politically motivated. Eddie McCoven, who left OAN this year, told me Sharp was founder Herring’s “pet.” Marty Golingan, fired after criticizing OAN in the New York Times, recalled that resisting Sharp was useless: “He would just tell on you to Mr. In one report, he told viewers that media coverage of white supremacy is “anti-white,” and spent several minutes showing Black people committing crimes.įormer OAN employees recall that Sharp’s stories were off-limits to fact-checking. His alienated white man persona resonates with a far-right audience. Of teaching young Asian students, he describes feeling like a “dancing white monkey” staring at “those little inscrutable brown faces.” Before OAN gave him a job, he spent time as an expat in China and wrote a story he describes as autobiographical, musing: “I was Lord Jim I was Charles Marlow I was every white man who didn’t belong, who had no place or people, who fled to the wilderness and jungle because its tangled depths were less formidable than the civilised world in which he lived.” Sharp’s blog reveals his fixation on alternate universes.
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