Great news, FNC critics! Shepard Smith is running his mouth about reinventing cable news programming, which means when the whole notion goes down the crapper like your best blow during a raid, you'll have punchline fodder. Since rolling out his velvet-hued revamp in April, Shep has been concentrating on delivering the news in a different way — especially when it's a news item that doesn't have pretty video snippets or pictures to go along with.

AND, he's sticking to REAL news. Or at least he will, when his Fox Report unveils its real makeover next month. Says Shep (emphasis ours):

We’ve already given up the “coming up” teasing that we were known for in the early days. We’ve taken all of that time and put it into content. We did that because viewers said that’s what they wanted. Viewers have said, "Stop telling me for 45 seconds what you’re going to do in the next four minutes." So we have. We’re not going to do more crap. We’re not going to do more titillating [stories], Hollywood-movie reviews and jokes. We’re going to do less of that. There are other places that do that better than we do. I don’t make any apologies for the way we’ve done it in the past. There was an atmosphere where it was acceptable because people didn’t have so much of it. We need to do news.

So, um, does "the past" include what your show was looking like at the end of last month?

Video footage, after the jump.