Posted on 04/30/2023 1:35:08 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
It appears that Tucker Carlson may be hamstrung for the moment, unable to negotiate a move to a new home because Fox News reportedly still has him under contract, paying him $10 to $20 million a year while blocking him from creating and broadcasting new content on their platforms or anywhere else. While courts tend to look unfavorably on contracts with noncompete clauses and other provisions that gag people, in effect keeping them in involuntary servitude, the company has the resources to drag out a fight in court that could keep Carlson silenced as the wheels of justice slowly grind for years.
Such a move to gag Tucker would risk a blowback from its core audience that would dwarf in scale and intensity the current calls for boycott, and could permanently damage the prospects of what had been the golden cash cow of the restructured Murdoch empire.
Gagging important voices at the cost of tens of millions of dollars a year, purely out of ideology or spite, is not a good look for a company seeking the loyalty and affection of conservatives.
As Wolf Howling points out on these pages today, the Murdochs’ timing was atrocious:
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Could there be a more fundamental act of disloyalty to Fox’s viewers? Could it have come at a worse time, when conservatives rightly feel that they face an existential threat from progressives set upon a coup?
All of this spells enormous opportunity for Tucker Carlson. As I see it, he has 3 different directions to choose from, in finding his new home, though he could mix elements from each into a blended approach.
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Eventually twitter is going to do this. They were streaming cheddar as a network so the infrastructure’s already there. All you need is 25 or so really good streams to get people in there, and you’ll have something that will beat cable handsdown.
and Maine where his other studio is and he actually sends more time up there. He could continue doing what he's been doing but without the fox name and put it out on multiple platforms like Rumble, Locals, Spotify etc. He started as a writer so he could do the substack thing too. Twitter's also rolling out many features that would allow him to monetize himself there.
I liked his interviews on Tucker Carlson Today so I hope he keeps doing that. His 25 minute documentaries were too short and not in depth so if he does more of that, I hope they go deeper.
The monologues were the best though. He said it takes him about 40 minutes to write them.
Option 4 he could start up his own show and put it on Rumble with a podcast to go along with it. Several people have done this.
Maybe Tucker and some of the other FOX News celebrities can buy CNN and convert it to the Conservative News Network?
Conservative News Network, OANN, NEWSMAX and the plethora of conservative web sites, blogs, etc., etc. would be a significant force to be reckoned with in national politics!
Just sayin.
Tucker is a TV person, his success has EVERYTHING to do with his expressions in the way he reports!! Tucker would never be as popular in radio, JMO!,,
RE: Are these his ideas or are you trying to pretend he’s a dunce and only you know what’s best for him?
Why address those questions to me?? I’m not the author of the article. I’m just sharing the author’s post.
NCAs are enforceable when an employee resigns with severance.
Generally unenforceable with involuntary termination.
Network TV is a dead end for conservatives, as Rush learned and cable would refuse to carry Tucker, that leaves streaming.
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