MICHELLE POLLINO

ABOUT

I am a writer, journalist, and filmmaker, currently serving as an entertainment and culture reporter for Fox News Radio. My career began at San Diego State University, where I learned to fly planes and cover traffic from above. After a near-fatal crash, I returned home to Philadelphia and launched my reporting career inside the extraordinary broadcast institutions of CBS, NPR, and NBC. I moved behind the camera to tell deeper stories at the publicly funded WYBE-TV, earning an Emmy nomination before transitioning into reality television. Over the next decade, I produced and directed more than 250 episodes for networks including NBC, Showtime, and TLC.
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My path eventually led to film, producing feature films. G.B.F. starring Megan Mullally and Mayor Cupcake with Lea Thompson were just a couple of my favorites. Financial realities pushed me toward podcasting, and in 2014 in Los Angeles, Fox News Radio called. Since then, I’ve moved to Nashville, which where I continue to cover arts and entertainment.
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During the COVID lockdown, I finally stopped running—and began writing the story I had spent decades avoiding.
The Fracturing is a 55,000-word memoir about the cost of ignoring what we know is true—and what happens when those buried truths surface anyway.
In 1997, I walked away from the woman I loved. I told myself a story to survive it—that I came from something broken, that I could not be the partner she needed. It was a story I had learned early. My mother left my father. Love disappeared. Silence felt safer than need.Those beliefs didn’t feel like stories. They felt like facts.
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Leaving her shattered something in me. But instead of facing it, I rebuilt myself around a lie—turning pain into narrative, loss into meaning.
Years later, working as a journalist inside one of the most powerful media systems in the country, I began questioning the stories we were telling the public. And in doing so, I was forced to confront the ones I had been telling myself.
As the narratives around me began to fracture, so did the ones inside me. What remained was a single, inescapable truth: I had lost the person I loved—and I had built an entire life to avoid understanding why. The Fracturing is both a love story and a reckoning—about how the stories we inherit shape the lives we lead, how silence replaces connection, and what it takes to face the truths we spend years trying not to see.
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Because the most dangerous information in the world isn’t what we’re told.
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It’s what we already know—and refuse to face.
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AFFILIATIONS
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I am a current fellow with FAIR in the Arts, a nonpartisan network dedicated to free expression and creative excellence, and an active member of Braver Angels Equality Forum.
