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Why Fox News won't rein in Tucker Carlson

posted 4 years ago by TMC-4 (20495)
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https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/27/media/fox-news-pays-10m-tucker-carlson/index.html

"Carlson is the right-wing equivalent of must-see-TV. As a result, he has the backing of Fox Corporation CEO Lachlan Murdoch and a huge amount of autonomy," says CNN Reliable Sources host Brian Stelter, who documents life at Fox News during the Trump presidency in his new book Hoax. "This is why it is important to follow the millions. During my research for Hoax, which is subtitled Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth, I interviewed numerous correspondents and producers who said they wished management would rein Carlson in. They cited examples like his December 2018 comment that mass immigration "makes our country poorer, and dirtier, and more divided" and his August 2019 assertion that white supremacy is a 'hoax.' But Carlson has an alliance of sorts with Murdoch, eldest son of Rupert, the Fox patriarch. It was Rupert who picked Carlson to succeed Bill O'Reilly in 2017, sources at the company said. And it was Lachlan who backed Carlson amid controversy after controversy in the Trump era, they said. The sources said there are a couple of factors at play: Lachlan shares his father's contempt for being bullied by the 'liberal media.' He never wants to appear to give in to left-wing ad boycotts. And he thinks Carlson's overarching messages are worth protecting. Both men fancy themselves to be contrarians and enjoy philosophical conversations. They are only two years apart in age. And, pre-pandemic, they dined together when they happened to be in the same city. Lachlan Murdoch's priority, according to sources and his own public statements, is the company's profits. Murdoch is not especially engaged in the editorial side of Fox News. His interest is in growing the business, which is on a path to $2 billion in annual profits."

[–] TMC-4 (20495) 4 years ago

Nobody at Fox News is going to stop Tucker Carlson

https://newrepublic.com/article/162048/no-one-going-stop-tucker-carlson

"Carlson knows he can say whatever he wants and get away with it—not only that, he can say whatever he wants and Lachlan Murdoch will back him," says Alex Shepherd of the Fox News host's recent controversies promoting a racist conspiracy theory and questioning vaccines. "He’s Fox’s biggest star. When the network was struggling with competition from the right after the 2020 election, his popularity helped beat back upstarts like Newsmax. Those ratings now are armor. He can tell his audience not to take Covid vaccines and that Democrats are engineering a massive conspiracy to “replace” them with nonwhite criminals, and he can double and triple down when he gets called out. No one at Fox cares, as long as he’s the network’s most bankable star.

[–] EricCartmanBrah (442) 4 years ago

Calling everyone and everything you don't like for racist, white supremacist, nazis, etc is not an argument.

[–] raymondoz2007 (2098) 4 years ago

WHY????..Because Tucker tells the truth.

[–] Ranb (11368) 3 years ago

Carlson panders to his sexist, flakey and racist audience. This means money for the Fox Network. The reins will not be pulled until he stops drawing in the money.

[–] PrimeMinisterX (8864) 3 years ago

Tucker is awesome and one of the few people in the news business doing anything of value. That's why he's popular.

[–] Ranb (11368) 3 years ago

If he was awesome, then Fox News lawyers would not have successfully argued that Carlson is a known liar that no one takes seriously, in order to win a libel case in court. https://www.npr.org/2020/09/29/917747123/you-literally-cant-believe-the-facts-tucker-carlson-tells-you-so-say-fox-s-lawye

Carlson acts like his audience is just that stupid.

[–] PrimeMinisterX (8864) 3 years ago

Tucker is speaking truth nightly and the Left hates it. CNN and MSNBC also weep over their low ratings while he smashes them regularly.

[–] Ranb (11368) 3 years ago

Why do you give a damn about ratings when Carlson has no integrity? Remember, Carlson lies because he thinks you're stupid. Let that sink in.

[–] PrimeMinisterX (8864) 3 years ago

I won't claim that everything Tucker has ever said has been truthful, but I sure as hell trust him more than I trust fucking Don Lemon or Rachel Maddow.

[–] Ranb (11368) 3 years ago

That is a really low bar then. I draw the line at lying, period. Which means I don't really trust anyone and look into anything anyone in the media says.

I should be surprised that anyone should trust a liar, even a little bit, under any circumstances. But these days I'm not because as long as "your" liar agrees with you sometimes, it's "okay" to not have any integrity at all.

[–] PrimeMinisterX (8864) 3 years ago

Frankly, Tucker gets a pass on some of his bullshit because he says so much to a national audience that needs to be said, and he's one of the very few with his kind of national reach that are saying it.

[–] MovieKnut (184) 3 years ago

Carlson acts like his audience is just that stupid.

They are.

[–] Bloodshot77 (14281) 3 years ago

It's not actual news. It's considered fiction.

[–] trevorh321 (5495) 3 years ago

Do you feel the same about Joy Reid?

[–] Ranb (11368) 3 years ago

I had to look at her Wikipedia page to know who she is. She does not appear to be a good person either.

[–] trevorh321 (5495) 3 years ago

Sure you did! LOL

[–] raymondoz2007 (2098) 3 years ago

You are a great fence straddler.

[–] MovieChatUser497 (18943) 3 years ago

Please show me one comment he made that was racist or sexist.

[–] Ranb (11368) 3 years ago

He who? I said Carlson's audience was racist. I did not say Carlson was racist.

[–] MovieChatUser497 (18943) 3 years ago

I was replying to the OP numb nuts. And Tucker has no control over his audience.

Also I'm sure the BLM/Antifa terrorists watch Joy Reid, Don Lemon, The View etc. so their audiences are racist as well.

[–] Satan2016 (26229) 3 years ago

Fox News is trusted and popular. CNN is not. Far more kooks like Don Lemon.

[–] jewoogle (2269) 3 years ago

even creepy uncle joe thinks don lemon looks sick as a dog and isnt doing fine from the vax lmfao

[–] johnmiller (4011) 3 years ago

Such a good laugh! Thanks.

Son, it's all bullshit. Doesn't matter if it's left-wing or right-wing. The fact that you're buying into it says a lot about you.

[–] johnmiller (4011) 3 years ago

He makes money. It's like the mob "reigning in" some gangster who's a "good earner."

[–] yatzo376 (7755) 3 years ago

Dreadful talking head

[–] TimMC (9143) 3 years ago

You lost all credibility when three letters.

CNN.

Fuck Off.

[–] Corbell (11007) 3 years ago

mass immigration is making US poorer and more divided and w.s. is pretty much a hoax.

[–] blue1981 (8203) 3 years ago

He's one of the only people talking about The Great Replacement and the forces of evil that are behind it.