Marc Lamont Hill Learned Of Fox Firing By Google Alert

During a radio interview yesterday, liberal analyst Marc Lamont Hill said he learned he had been fired by Fox News last Friday through a Google Alert.

Think Progress has the audio and transcript of his interview with radio host Steve Malzberg – and it raises more questions about the reason the rising star at FNC was let go.

“To date, Fox News Channel hasn’t given me any information as to why,” said Hill yesterday. He continued:

I got a Google alert at 11 o’clock [a.m.] that it had been announced that I’d been fired. After that, I guess someone followed up later in the day, you know because I was sort of trying to figure out what was going on…I found out that it was true but other than that I don’t have any other information…I haven’t had any thorough conversation with anyone.

Over the weekend, this web radio show from September surfaced as a possible reason for his dismissal. In it, he strongly attacks Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck – but notably, does not say anything about Bill O’Reilly, whose show he regularly appeared. Still, the story was odd to begin with, since News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch essentially broke the news himself, while speaking to stockholders Friday morning.

Newsbusters reports on another part of the Malzberg radio interview yesterday, where Hill weighs in on the Fox News vs. White House feud. Hill says “I would agree” that MSNBC is more biased to the left than Fox News is biased to the right.

Last week we reached out to both Hill and Fox News for more information on what happened.