Fox News In Disarray As Tucker Carlson Is Wrecking The Network

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https://www.politicususa.com/2021/11/24/fox-news-in-disarray-as-tucker-carlson-is-wrecking-the-network.html

Posted on Wed, Nov 24th, 2021 by Jason Easley
Fox News In Disarray As Tucker Carlson Is Wrecking The Network


Fox News staff are divided and tensions are growing as Tucker Carlson’s support for political violence and domestic terrorism is splitting the network.

NPR recently reported:

According to five people with direct knowledge, the resignations reflect larger tumult within Fox News over Carlson’s series Patriot Purge and his increasingly strident stances, and over the network’s willingness to let its opinion stars make false, paranoid claims against President Biden, his administration and his supporters.

Veteran figures on Fox’s news side, including political anchors Baier and Chris Wallace, shared their objections with Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott and its president of news, Jay Wallace. Those objections rose to Lachlan Murdoch, the chairman and CEO of the network’s parent company, Fox Corp. Through a senior spokeswoman, Scott and Wallace declined comment. Murdoch did not return a request for comment through a spokesman.

Tucker Carlson Is The New Glenn Beck

History is repeating itself at Fox News. Back in the first term of the Obama administration, Glenn Beck skyrocketed to fame with his chalkboard and Obama conspiracies. Beck was eventually undone by an advertiser boycott, but the ground that Tucker Carlson is plowing is much more fertile for divisive calls for violence and conspiracy theories.

The views of the far-right have become even more extreme since Beck left cable news. Tucker Carlson isn’t spewing his hate at 5 PM with a chalkboard. Carlson is a primetime figure with a willing audience ready to lap up his lies and justifications or racism and political violence.

Just as they were under Beck, the serious news people are troubled by Carlson, as the impossible co-existence between propaganda and news is bringing a crisis to a boil at Fox News.

[uponit7771]

1. " the serious news people "... all 1.57 of them?

[localroger]

10. +1.57 /nt

[ProfessorGAC]

21. A Terrible Underestimate

Everyone knows is 1.62!

[Mike Nelson]

2. Well...

... Mr. Baer and Mr. Wallace get no admiration from me. They knew where they were, all along. They are not stupid. They are being paid by FOX "News" and that is where their bread is buttered.

[Tommymac]

6. +1

Fox is NOT NEWS - never has been.

It is an entertainment channel. I beleive itis chartered that way now.

Pure Propaganda since it started in the 1980's or 1990's.

Mr Baer and Mr Wallace are ingenuous and are allowing themselves to be used as the comic foils for this horrible affront to humanity. I have no sympathy OR respect for either. They should resign asap if they are truly serious in their complaints.

Fox news is the same as Pravda. And it ain't Truth.

[Patterson]

19. With Pravda the people knew they were being lied to.

[sop]

3. "Tucker Carlson Is The New Glenn Beck"?

Glenn Beck was Walter Cronkite compared to Carlson. In a sane world Tucker Carlson would be considered a terrorist.

[PatSeg]

15. Yes, I'd take Glenn Beck over this fascist Carlson

Beck was nutty and often silly, but Carlson is extremely dangerous. Someone in charge at Fox needs to stop him and the FBI should maybe visit him at home. He is clearly inciting violence.

[SledDriver]

4. Domestic terrorists

[FoxNewsSucks]

5. They're just now noticing what Field Marshall Carlson's intent is?

Not just his, but the whole channel. They just keep getting worse and worse, year after year.

[PatSeg]

16. Now they have to compete with far more extreme

versions of Fox so perhaps some are trying harder to be crazy.

[BlueJac]

7. Total poisonous waste of time!

[tulipsandroses]

8. They still work there sooo,,

I had one job that I thought the company was unethical and some employees were racist. I quit.

[Poiuyt]

9. Does anyone know who Tucker's sponsors are?

If an advertiser boycott took down Glenn Beck, it can take down Tucker Carlson. Money is the only threat that the networks listen to. But if you're going to boycott Carlson's sponsors, you'd better write and let them know what you're doing and why.

[uponit7771]

12. He doesn't have many big name ones, FAUX News is mostly funded by TV bundles like that even

... include some internet streaming outlets now.

It's disgusting, we have to defund FAUX News by going after the outlets that bundle them in cable offerings.

[sop]

17. Bundling is key to FOX News' popularity.

For some reason just about every basic dish or cable package includes FOX News. If you want channels like MSNBC you have to upgrade to a higher-cost package.

[Johonny]

11. The truth is, they could fire him in a second and replace him with anyone, just anyone

On air talent at FOX has shown to be 100% replaceable. There is nothing special that any of them do.

[womanofthehills]

25. He pulls in about 3 million viewers - great numbers for cable news so I doubt he will be replaced

Some conservatives in my small town only listen to Tucker - they think the rest of Fox News is too liberal. Hard to believe but true.


Just to get a perspective here - podcasts are pulling in more viewers. Joe Rogan pulls in around 10 million or more.

[bahboo]

13. little TC is such a simpering coward....

would love to see someone walk up to him, and knock him on his privileged ass....

[maxsolomon]

14. Lachlan Murdoch DOES NOT CARE.

Carlson is taking Fox exactly where Lachlan Murdoch wants it to go, or he wouldn't be going there.

The Murdochs are a global poison.

[CentralMass]

18. Good.

[Progressive Jones]

20. Go Tucker ! Wreck FOX News !!! nt

[Red Mountain]

22. Which fails first.....

FOX or the country?

[Trueblue1968]

23. HOPE TUCKER DESTROYS FAUX NOT NEWS

[Takket]

24. "Fox News angry at business model that made it billions "