Buh-bye Tucker

[Citysnaps]

Well, there you go. Maybe he'll be trump's running mate.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/04/24/tucker-carlson-leaves-fox-news/

 

[MEJHarrison]

While it would have be nice to see him forced to tell his audience the truth about what happened, this seems like the next best thing.

 

[fooferdoggie]

man good news. but we Know he will be back one an even worse fake news show.

 

[Eric]

Well, there you go. Maybe he'll be trump's running mate.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/04/24/tucker-carlson-leaves-fox-news/

Wow, he's their biggest draw too but he's just too radical, even for Fox News.

Since it didn't unfurl for you here's the rest from WP.

Tucker Carlson is out at Fox News after Dominion lawsuit disclosures​

The bombastic conservative was the network’s most-watched prime-time host. Private communications made public in a recent lawsuit revealed his sharp criticism of Fox management.​

 

[dada_dave]

Whoa I thought they would clean out lower tier hosts, I’m surprised they got rid of him too. Now I wonder about the rest of them …

Edit: @Eric Ah it could’ve been the criticism of Fox management. I see … still good, but yeah makes more sense.

 

[GermanSuplex]

And now Don Lemon at CNN..

CNN fires longtime host and anchor Don Lemon — The Washington Post

Lemon, a longtime host for CNN, was chastised recently for on-air comments about the "prime" age of presidential candidate Nikki Haley and other women.

apple.news

 

[Eric]

And now Don Lemon at CNN..

CNN fires longtime host and anchor Don Lemon — The Washington Post

Lemon, a longtime host for CNN, was chastised recently for on-air comments about the "prime" age of presidential candidate Nikki Haley and other women.

apple.news

Goes both ways, I don't care about their party. If they're radical they need to be rooted out. It's time we get back to regular news IMO without all the hyperpartisanship, the nightly news on any of the three big networks are always A political and you're able to get the day's news in just a few minutes in an unbiased fashion. It's just that filling up 24 hours a day with that isn't realistic so they get political and stretch it out.

 

[dada_dave]

Goes both ways, I don't care about their party. If they're radical they need to be rooted out. It's time we get back to regular news IMO without all the hyperpartisanship, the nightly news on any of the three big networks are always A political and you're able to get the day's news in just a few minutes in an unbiased fashion. It's just that filling up 24 hours a day with that isn't realistic so they get political and stretch it out.

I think it was less that he was radical and more that he was a jackass - the age bit was pretty odious regardless of whether he was talking about Haley or a Democratic female candidate.

Also we have to be careful about tit-for-tat false equivalency and the conflation of centrality with neutrality and of neutrality with objectivity. News should be objective, but not neutral (which always favors power structures) and definitely not centrality which almost always requires the abandonment of objectivity despite its claims otherwise.

 

[Eric]

I think it was less that he was radical and more that he was a jackass - the age bit was pretty odious regardless of whether he was talking about Haley or a Democratic candidate.

That and I doubt his ratings were even close to what Tucker's was, that's a pretty big hit for Fox, would be nice to see them bring someone in the middle in but that might be asking too much lol.

 

[Alli]

The question is: will Tucker and Don open their own disinformation bureau, or just report directly to the Kremlin now?

 

[dada_dave]

That and I doubt his ratings were even close to what Tucker's was, that's a pretty big hit for Fox, would be nice to see them bring someone in the middle in but that might be asking too much lol.

No one at CNN has those kinds of ratings … of course on the other side none of them was cheerleading a coup against the government and causing their network (so far) hundreds of millions in damage (though doing it with management’s approval). So you know it probably balances out

 

[KingOfPain]

I‘m pretty sure Tucker will find some other way to spew his poison.
The question is who his successor at Fox News will be.

I would have bet that they fire Maria Bartiromo, because according to the leaks she actually was crazy enough to believe the election lies.

 

[dada_dave]

I‘m pretty sure Tucker will find some other way to spew his poison.
The question is who his successor at Fox News will be.

I would have bet that they fire Maria Bartiromo, because according to the leaks she actually was crazy enough to believe the election lies.

The rumor was that she was going to go … and Pirro too. But we’ll see. Frankly I’m not sure much will change since management approved all this and the main factor why, their audience craves this misinformation, haven’t changed. Their entire revenue model is based on feeding them more and more extreme disinformation. For management and hosts it’s the wolf’s ears/tiger’s tail - even if you don’t want to be there riding the wolf / tiger (and some of them do as you pointed out), you daren’t let go.

 

[Chew Toy McCoy]

What?!? He was just asking questions! Where else are they going to find somebody who is just asking questions?! I'm just asking questions.

 

[fooferdoggie]

The question is: will Tucker and Don open their own disinformation bureau, or just report directly to the Kremlin now?

they already have it was called fox and a presidential candidate.

 

[Eric]

Since Twitter is now full of MAGAts they're losing their collective shit over this. The meltdown is real.

 

[dada_dave]

Since Twitter is now full of MAGAts they're losing their collective shit over this. The meltdown is real.

Including chief twit himself:

 

[Cmaier]

Supposedly he found out about it this morning, and the reasons have to do with him creating a toxic workplace and not anything to do with anything he said or the Dominion trial.

 

[dada_dave]

Supposedly he found out about it this morning, and the reasons have to do with him creating a toxic workplace and not anything to do with anything he said or the Dominion trial.

He did try to get other Fox reporters fired

 

[fooferdoggie]

Supposedly he found out about it this morning, and the reasons have to do with him creating a toxic workplace and not anything to do with anything he said or the Dominion trial.

cant imagine this friendly guy making work a toxic place its almost impossible to believe.