Where is your source for your information this was about money?
What? My request for a source here is for general behavior as stated by OP, not regarding CW.
This has been my stance throughout, when no reason is given by either side, one can assume the primary concern in choosing an employer is compensation. Of course, people make decisions for all kinds of reasons, and will often take pay cuts for other considerations. And the same could be true for CW. But if there was an ideological consideration he would either say so or say something like "decided to go in a different direction". You have also waffled in this thread about whether people at Fox wanted him out or if they were blindsided. If they wanted him out because he wasn't being pro-Trump enough or whatever, why wouldn't they say they wanted to go in a different direction?
I don't follow Fox or CNN, and have no opinion on Chris Wallace (I think I only know of him from the debates) but CNN seems far more toxic at the moment than anywhere. Earlier this year there was a leak of conversations that didn't seem to make them look very good, and one of their top spots was just fired and is being accused of sexual misconduct. A senior producer or the like, was just arrested for inappropriate sexual conduct with an underage girl. If I'm Wallace, I'd probably retire rather than move on to new toxicity. While fox may be everything you say it is, there are many people (tens of millions) who just like CNN and every news network, believe that they are doing good reporting. Because one disagrees, doesn't mean it's factual.
And you left out Toobin and probably others.
Looking back at the Trump-Russia reporting with all the info we have now, it's clear that CNN reports conspiracy theories just as much as Tucker, except they do it under the guise of objective news coverage and not opinion journalism. And when a story doesn't fit the narrative, it gets called a "conspiracy theory", which leads to people believing actual conspiracy theories. If you say the lab leak is a conspiracy when it is a very plausible story, or if the ivermectin people are taking is "horse paste" and not a medicine prescribed to humans for ages, why shouldn't the anti vax stuff you are labeling as conspiracy be true?
When respected news people call out their own it means something.
The question is why the other side is not calling out their own. CNN even has an entire show to speak just about media and they focus an absurd percentage of their focus on FOX, and when one of their biggest personalities was let go, all they did was repost the official CNN statement and not say a word about the ethics or misconduct. When Cuomo did a whole show emerging from his basement after covid when there was a police report showing he had been out and about with covid, who on his network called him out?
The ironic thing about this is that I watch neither network and think they are both contemptible. The media as a whole is responsible for much of the societal decay and highly partisan nature of our politics. This whole argument is because all networks have poisoned our collective minds.