Posted on 05/01/2023 5:37:35 PM PDT by conservative98
Fox News picked Lawrence Jones to be the temporary replacement for the time slot that used to feature the highly rated Tucker Carlson, who was unceremoniously ousted a week ago.
Jones, 30, is considered to be the "youngest black solo host of a cable news show in history," according to the Daily Mail. Newsmax had Joe Pinion, now 39, as a host before he left the network to run for Senate to vie for the seat held by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.
Jones, a self-described libertarian, is expected to host starting Monday night after Fox News has struggled to keep viewers in Carlson's time slot. Its audience plummeted from an average of 3.2 million viewers with Carlson to 2.6 million tuning in Monday, 1.7 million Tuesday, and just 1.3 million Wednesday.
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LOL
I needed that.
I had to go to school on that one to gain street cred around here and keep it real.
Oh boy!!
His parents deserve a lot of credit
No thanks Fox
NOPE. I am done with Fox. Every channel, every show.
Lawrence Jones will do as he is told AND the bonus is his skin color, tells you all you need to know about Fox!! His skin is black he has VERY LITTLE experience YET he steps over EVERYONE for the primetime slot!! SICK OF FOX YET????
A temporary replacement and a successor are two entirely different things.
Such pandering lol.
Jones has no degree past high school. He’s basically sent on the streets to talk to people. The 8-9 time slot is Fox’s premier hour. Bet this pisses Jesse Watters off. But Jones fits the slot well. He’s black, not to smart and will do what he’s told.
Corporate pandering continues.
I wonder how reporters and anchors at network headquarters, and in Fox local newsrooms around the country — who have been doing stellar work for 15, 20, or more years — feel about the sudden elevation of a guy who was peddling his bike to junior high when they were on the beat reporting actual news stories and anchoring newscasts.
Lawrence Jones who used to work on the 0bama campaign. It figures.
yer funny :)
It’s an old junior high school stunt. They are trying to convince people that they are not connected because they don’t know Lawrence Jones. Myself? Never heard of him.
Ping for later
He isn’t and he won’t. He is an Obama voter who calls himself a libertarian.
He used to work for Glenn Beck quite a while ago. I think. I could be wrong.
He’s a lefty?
He’s pretty decent actually, but as I put it the other day: I don’t have cable. I would occasionally watch Tucker on big news days via livestreams. People would livestream his program on YouTube, probably illegally. It takes some effort to search and find a livestream because the people who do it don’t do it for long. I assume they are going for subscribers and monetization (ads). It doesn’t turn out well for them, or they get booted. Thus, there isn’t anything consistent to turn to. Jones, while decent, isn’t worth the effort to track down a livestream. Just call that a lack of motivation on my part. I have other things to do with my time.
IMHO he’s a weak replacement.
Until all Affirmative Action is banished, every person who gets hired like this will have to disprove the label.
If they do, fine, I am good with that.
But until Affirmative Action is gone, it will be the first phrase out of my mouth sight unseen.
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