Mississippi Legends: Shepard Smith
By MARILYN TINNIN
Mon,08/26/24-12:22PM, 230 Reads 2,131 Statewide
Smith bemoans the present-day version of around-the-clock opinion and panel discussions that monopolize news network programming.
Holly Springs native and celebrity news anchor, reporter, and journalist Shepard Smith spent a summer managing the drive-thru at a Hardee’s fast-food franchise in Destin.
“I could make that drive-thru sing,” he says.
So impressive was his twelve-second execution from customer’s order to delivery at the window that Hardee’s corporate leadership sent a team down to observe his method.
Shep thought seriously about accepting their invitation to manage his own Hardee’s right down the beach, but to his moOnce the country’s highest-paid cable news network anchor, a journalist who covered every major story from the death of Princess Diana
in 1997 to Hurricane Katrina in 2005 to Ground Zero during 9/11 to present-day wars around the globe, Shep calls his time at Hardee’s “one of the most important things I ever did.” He states firmly, “Journalism is not about emotion or persuasion or opinion.
Journalism is about gathering information and reporting facts.” Please leave it to the viewers to form their own opinions. That is the Shepard Smith preferred rule.
