Posted on 04/24/2023 8:59:14 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Update (2114ET): After an entire day wondering why in the hell Fox News would can the highest-rated cable news host in the world, ever, the New York Times comes out with this;
Who:
The decision to let Mr. Carlson go was made on Friday night by Lachlan Murdoch, the chief executive of Fox Corporation, and Suzanne Scott, chief executive of Fox News Media, according to a person briefed on the move. Mr. Carlson was informed on Monday morning by Ms. Scott, another person briefed on the move said.
Why?
[T]he power that Mr. Carlson, 53, wielded outside Fox News could not insulate him from a growing list of troubles inside the network related to his conduct on and off the air, some of which had been grating on Mr. Murdoch and his father, Rupert Murdoch, the chairman of Fox Corporation, who co-founded the network in 1996, according to the two people with knowledge of the company’s decision.
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The host, a polarizing and unpopular figure at the network outside of his own staff, was exposed as part of a defamation lawsuit by Dominion Voting Systems as a bully who denigrated colleagues and sources, often in profane and sexist language, and called for the firing of Fox journalists whose coverage he disliked. He has also drawn condemnation from the right and left for his role in fostering a revisionist account of the assault on the United States Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
So he was mean to people?
We also know that last week, Tucker attacked Big Pharma in one of his monologues.
3 days ago: Tucker’s opening monologue calls out mainstream media’s role in pushing the Covid vaccines despite their high risk for serious side effects and death
Today: Tucker is no longer with Fox
This is the power of Big Pharma pic.twitter.com/r5fVaZJt3d — DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) April 24, 2023
Fox fires @TuckerCarlson five days after he crosses the red line by acknowledging that the TV networks pushed a deadly and ineffective vaccine to please their Pharma advertisers. Carlson’s breathtakingly courageous April 19 monologue broke TV’s two biggest rules: Tucker told the… — Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) April 24, 2023
Oh, there's more:
One early point of contention was Mr. Carlson’s 2021 documentary, “Patriot Purge,” which advanced the conspiracy theory that the attack that day was a so-called false flag operation designed to discredit the former president and his political movement. Lachlan Murdoch was said to have been caught off guard by the program, which also led two conservative Fox News contributors to quit in protest, Jonah Goldberg and Stephen Hayes.
In March, Mr. Carlson edited down tens of thousands of hours of footage from the attack given to him by Speaker Kevin McCarthy and used them to falsely portray the rioters as people Mr. Carlson called “mostly peaceful” onlookers who had innocently ambled into the Capitol. The broadcast drew a rebuke from Senator Mitch McConnell, who is a friend of Rupert Murdoch’s and said Mr. Carlson had drawn “offensive and misleading conclusions.”
So he showed the public the January 6th footage and dared question the event.
There are few people in media who have their own independent following loyal to them.
Tucker is one of them. If he goes to an independent platform, his audience will be even bigger and his voice more influential.
Fox needed Tucker way more than Tucker needed Fox. — Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 25, 2023
The Times also says that one of Carlson's former producers said he ran a "toxic" workplace.
And yet, is any of that worth giving up tens of millions in Tucker-related ad revenue? It seems that if you routinely question the regime, it is.
This was Tucker Carlson Tonight’s last moment.
Eating pizza with the hero delivery man who stopped a car jacker.
I can’t think of a better way for the greatest cable news show in history to end.
pic.twitter.com/cfzNZ6QY4l — Greg Price (@greg_price11) April 24, 2023
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Tucker Carlson, the highest rated cable news host in history, is out at Fox News. The news comes days after the network cut ties with host Dan Bongino 48 hours after the network settled with Dominion Voting Systems for nearly $800 million.
"Fox News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways," reads a statement from the network, which thanks him for his service "as a host and prior to that as a contributor."
Carlson's executive producer, Justin Wells, is also out at the network according to Semafor.
According to the statement, Carlson's last show was Friday, April 21st as he continued to dominate, and his slot will now be filled by 'an interim show helmed by rotating FOX News personalities until a new host is named."
TV RATINGS: Fox News was #1 in total viewers in cable news on Monday April 17, led by these hours:
1. @TuckerCarlson
2. @TheFive
3. @seanhannity
4. @jesseprimetime @PeteHegseth
5. @BretBaier
6. @maddow
7. @Gutfeldfox
8. @OutnumberedFNC
9. @DanaPerino @BillHemmer
10.… pic.twitter.com/FlYDu6zPHu — TV News Now (@TVNewsNow) April 19, 2023
Full statement from the network (emphasis ours),:
FOX News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways. We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor.
Mr. Carlson's last program was Friday April 21st. Fox News Tonight will air live at 8 PM/ET starting this evening as an interim show helmed by rotating FOX News personalities until a new host is named.
FOX News Media operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Digital, FOX News Audio, FOX News Books, the direct-to-consumer streaming services FOX Nation and FOX News International and the free ad- supported television service FOX Weather. Currently the number one network in all of cable, FNC has also been the most watched television news channel for more than 21 consecutive years, while FBN ranks among the top business channels on cable. Owned by Fox Corporation, FOX News Media reaches nearly 200 million people each month.
From 8pm to 9pm on Fox, there was extreme, even fundamental, disagreements between Tucker and Hannity on those key issues - the kind of internal debate unthinkable on any other network: in lockstep.
I'd wager the new 8pm host will be far more aligned with Hannity: standard GOP. — Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 24, 2023
Shares of 21st Century Fox dropped like a rock on the news, and is now sitting at January lows (the drop in FOXA's market cap is around the same as the settlement with Dominion).
One of Carlson's last monologues at Fox...
Were Carlson and Bongino sacrificed as part of the settlement?
And where to next?
Rumble..?
Twitter...?
ZeroHedge?
What is this, middle school?
The broadcast drew a rebuke from Senator Mitch McConnell, who is a friend of Rupert Murdoch’s
What is this, middle school?
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aka: the swamp
everybody is way off base
on his last show
he ordered a pizza with....wait for it....
sausage and PINEAPPLE!!!
he had to go....no discussion....just see ya
Couple o’ Irish got their dander up. I’m fairly certain BOR has been seething with jealousy for years now, because he used to be first; but he simply didn't have the overview that Tucker has, and the times were different. We are now in a full-blown takeover, and someone needs to have stones.
I finished with O’Reilly years ago during one of his rants about why certain Christian holy days are also national holidays but other religions’ holy days are not, he “explained” that Christianity is “not a religion, but a philosophy.” Oh, my word. A little too simplistic there, pal.
You don’t like Trump so you’ll give Cucker Tarlson a pass even though he says he “hates” Trump and lies in the face of the president. And stop speaking for other FReepers.
he ordered a sausage and pineapple pizza
the horrors
thanks sirius
that was coffee thru the nose funny
The left’s celebration will be short lived. Carlson will likely go private rather than jump to another “news” outlet. He’ll probably develop a podcast or online show where — to the left’s horror — he’ll have no boundaries or editors lording over his content.
And he’ll have all of his previous audience and more. This isn’t going to go well for the cancel culturalists…
Proverbs 22:23
Do not make friends with a hot-tempered person,
do not associate with one easily angered,
“In 2019, Tucker Carlson considered himself to be divorced from the Heritage Foundation (that he had joined in 1991, IIRC).
A lot has happened that Tucker Carlson has had to reconsider, and Tucker Carlson now speaks about, how he (Carlson) has been seeing the light.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4148182/posts“
Thank you for your comment & Link
Not hot tempered or angry. Maybe read My post again. Idk.
Is Dominion credible?
I did get comments about Antifa on FR planning to cause trouble at the MAGA protest. I was looking for in in the video I watch. Sure enough, it looked like those Antifa people causing all the trouble. The false flag tactic worked because Antifa was wearing Trump hats, etc to make the trouble the were causing look like it was coming from his followers.
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