Fox News Bets Lawrence Jones Can Win New Viewers from Surprising Places
variety.comBrian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Not many people who work at Fox News Channel get to push back at Sean Hannity. Lawrence Jones is one of them.
When Jones was just getting started at the Fox Corp.-backed conservative-leaning news outlet, Hannity took him under his wing, and offered advice, even the chance to start appearing on his well-watched primetime program.
At first, “I told him no,” Jones recalls, “I’m more libertarian. You’re more conservative. I just want to be able to do what I do.” Hannity told him the pair could use their differences to create interesting segments. “We will make it a thing on TV,” Jones remembers being told.
Lawrence Jones continues to do things differently at Fox News Channel. At 31, he is decidedly younger than many of the network’s best-known personalities.
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