Tucker Carlson’s Fox News career and exit
Conservative commentator Tucker Carlson is out at Fox News, the network announced on Monday. His last show was Friday.
Before joining Fox News as a contributor in 2009, Carlson hosted programs on CNN and MSNBC.
His Fox News show “Tucker Carlson Tonight” began airing in 2017.
“Tucker Carlson Tonight” was often a top non-sports ratings winner, but in 2022, the Fox News round table program “The Five” edged out Carlson’s show.
Carlson’s right-wing takes came under fire repeatedly, with advertisers boycotting the show after the host’s incendiary comments on the Black Lives Matter movement, mass shootings and Donald Trump.
Carlson’s ouster from Fox comes in the wake of the network’s $787.5-million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems after hosts made false claims about the 2020 presidential election.
Carlson is also one of the defendants in a lawsuit by TV producer Abby Grossberg alleging the network is rife with sexist, misogynistic and abusive behavior.
Tucker Carlson was fired by Fox News last month. He said he will do a ‘new version’ of his show ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’ on the social media platform Twitter.
With his ouster from Fox News, Tucker Carlson holds the rare distinction of being fired by all three major cable news channels. Yet every time so far, he has bounced back and grown his audience, while moving toward darker and more divisive themes. What’s stopping him from doing it again?
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Tucker Carlson, Fox News’ top-rated host, is gone, but Rupert Murdoch’s network has seen this script before. Get ready for a new host and the same outrage.
Maybe this week, in which Tucker Carlson, Don Lemon and Jeff Shell were fired, was actually a good one for media, representing the messy, imperfect pattern of change.
Don’t feel bad for the jerks of media and Hollywood. Feel bad for the employees catching the brunt of a wave of layoffs.
How the media reacted to the firings of the Fox News and CNN hosts is a signal of the power that cable TV news, and its anchors, continues to wield.
Tucker Carlson’s last program was Friday, Fox News said. His ouster is probably related to a discrimination lawsuit filed by a former producer.
The decision to part ways with Tucker Carlson was made by Rupert Murdoch. Sources say it wasn’t because of the $787.5-million Dominion settlement.
Celebrities and Twitter users reacted with a mix of outrage and delight at the simultaneous exits of Fox News’ Tucker Carlson and CNN’s Don Lemon.
If you believe in accountability, Tucker Carlson’s firing was a good thing. But if you believe his ouster will end our divisions, you’re probably as gullible as the Fox viewers who swallowed his lies.
The Fox network was just protecting the bottom line in firing Tucker Carlson, not purging a blight on American democracy.
The 79-page lawsuit, filed in federal court in New York, raises questions about whether Fox News has sufficiently modernized its workplace culture since co-founder Roger Ailes was forced out in 2016.
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Acquitted at trial last week after killing two unarmed men at a Black Lives Matter protest, Rittenhouse visited Carlson’s Fox News show on Monday.
The claims raised in Carlson’s “Patriot Purge,” shown on Fox News’ streaming service, have been disputed by the network’s own reporting.
Fox News host Tucker Carlson denounced the incendiary hate speech posted online by a writer who worked on his top-rated program, but stopped short of issuing an apology.
Fox News condemns “horrific racist, misogynistic and homophobic behavior” by “Tucker Carlson Tonight” writer Blake Neff, who has resigned.
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Fox News host Tucker Carlson will go on a previously planned Christmas vacation next week while his bosses contend with an exodus of advertisers that threatens to financially damage his top-rated program.
Tucker Carlson has been a successful journalist for nearly 30 years.
Conservative commentator Tucker Carlson has been a cable news talking head for 20 years.
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