Posted on 04/24/2023 1:26:26 PM PDT by Red Badger
Fox News boss Rupert Murdoch personally pushed out star host Tucker Carlson according to a new report from The Los Angeles Times. Murdoch made the move reportedly over a lawsuit filed by former Fox News producer Abby Grossberg
“Fox News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways,” the network said in a statement. “We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor.”
Grossberg booked guests for “Tucker Carlson Tonight” before she was fired earlier this year. She filed a complaint in a New York federal court on March 20.
Grossbertg accused Tucker and other Fox executives of having “a work environment that subjugates women based on vile sexist stereotypes.”
“Ms. Grossberg was isolated, overworked, undervalued, denied opportunities for promotion, and generally treated significantly worse than her male counterparts, even when those men were less qualified than her,” the complaint said.
Fox News denied the allegations and said they will “vigorously defend Fox against all of her legal claims which have no merit.”
“FOX News Media engaged an independent outside counsel to immediately investigate the concerns raised by Ms. Grossberg, which were made following a critical performance review,” a spokesperson said.
According to The Los Angeles Times:
A Fox News representative had no other details on Carlson’s exit. People familiar with the situation who were not authorized to comment publicly said the decision to fire Carlson came straight from Fox Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch.
Carlson’s exit is related to the discrimination lawsuit filed by Abby Grossberg, the producer fired by the network last month, the people said.
Carlson’s senior executive producer Justin Wells has also been terminated, according to people familiar with the matter. A Fox News representative would not comment.
LA TIMES TWEETS AT LINK....................
My take on this I put my money where my mouth is that there are a lot of junior executives who work at Fox who graduated from Harvard.
What took so long?
My take is she was looking for a huge payday..................and she got it!...................
Apparently, Murdoch doesn’t realize the customer is always right. He’s going to have to find out why that is true.
They are nothing without Tucker. I will follow Tucker where he goes and never turn Fox on for anything else.
Especially in light of Fox News having to also dish out over $700 million to the vote cheat system. It's probably hard to pay that much money without having to cut other expenses.
I find this hard to believe.
So, one Sex Discrimination lawsuit by Abby Grossberg outweighs both capital and intrinsic value of Tucker Carlson?
Sounds to me, like they were looking for an Off Ramp for Tucker anyway, and this is a good excuse as any to offload
their ‘problematic’ but highly popular host.
A much watered down version of what happened to Bill O’Reily.
I worked with a number of such women-—until I went self-employed in 1980.
Toro Kaka.
J6 videos.
Abby will be a new hero to the left. I wonder if MSNBCCBSABCCNNPBS is making an off to produce or have her own show.
My suspicious take, is she was threatening to go to testify against Fox news, so they had to pay out a settlement to dominion to end the case. I wonder if she sought getting rid of Tucker as a bonus, and the deals to the settlement are closed.
Probably a protege of George Soros and the ADL.
Carlson was the only TV personality questioning the Ukraine operation. Brian Kilmeade will be replacing him tonight. Can’t watch him regurgitate State Propaganda.
It was a board recommendation to Murdock.
With Paul Ryan heading the charge.
I'm with the reports that it was about the January 6 reveal--all the 'right' people howled about it.
Disgruntled employee threatening to sink Fox on Billion dollar lawsuit with Dominion might also be a factor.
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