Embarrassing Vulgarities at Heart of Tucker Carlson Dismissal: NYT

Apr 27, 2023 | Alex Wagner relays new reporting from the New York Times that key to the abrupt ejection of Tucker Carlson from Fox were messages uncovered in discovery in the Dominion Voting Systems case that were vulgar and "demeaning toward women."

New Details in Tucker Carlson's Exit from Fox News l Good Morning America (GMA)

Apr 26, 2023 | The host and the network parted ways on Monday nearly a week after a $787.5 million settlement agreement between Fox News and Dominion Voting Systems.

Why Did Fox Fire Tucker Carlson? Far-right Host Helped Fox Mainstream Hate Conspiracies to Millions

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What Tucker Carlson Leaves Behind as He Is Shown the Door

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The host’s abrupt dismissal upends Fox News’s prime-time lineup — and the carefully honed impression that the ratings star was all but untouchable.

Tucker Carlson has weathered one controversy after another in his years at Fox. On Monday, the network announced that it was cutting ties with him. | Leigh Vogel for The New York Times
In the days after the 2020 election, the Fox host Tucker Carlson sent an anxious text message to one of his producers. Fox viewers were furious about the network’s decision to call Arizona for Joseph R. Biden Jr.

The defeated president, Donald J. Trump, was eagerly stoking their anger. As Mr. Carlson and his producer batted around ideas for a new Carlson podcast — one that might help win back the audience most angry about Mr. Trump’s defeat — they saw both opportunity and peril in the moment.

“He could easily destroy us if we play it wrong,” Mr. Carlson warned, in a text released during Fox’s now-settled litigation with the voting software company Dominion.

Mr. Carlson proved prophetic, if not entirely in the way he had predicted. His nearly six-year reign in prime-time cable came to a sudden end on Monday, as Fox abruptly cut ties with the host, thanking him in a terse news release “for his service to the network.” » | Nicholas Confessore | Monday, April 24, 2023

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Tucker Carlson Leaves Fox News in Surprise Announcement

THE GUARDIAN: Far-right cable news host leaves with immediate effect with interim presenters replacing him

Tucker Carlson on 17 November 2022 in Hollywood, Florida. Photograph: Jason Koerner/Getty Images
The far-right Fox News host Tucker Carlson is leaving the channel, the network abruptly announced Monday.

“Fox News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways,” the company said in a statement. “We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor.”.

The statement added that the last episode of Carlson’s program was Friday. Beginning Monday night, the 8pm ET slot which was Carlson’s would be hosted by a rotation of personalities until the selection of a new permanent host, according to the network. » | Sam Levine in New York | Monday, November 24, 2023

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Trump Rages as Fox News Turns on MAGAWorld

Jul 29, 2022 The tug-of-war within Fox News continues as the network ignores a Trump speech to air Ron DeSantis instead. The former President hitting back and reportedly “tracking which hosts he can count on.” MSNBC’s Ari Melber reports on the devastating shift for Trump. Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson joins, adding: “Trump] sits in Mar-A-Lago and throws things at the walls every time he sees DeSantis on Fox, which is about every 35 seconds now. He is the guy Rupert [Murdoch] has picked…"

The Dangers of Spreading the Racist 'Replacement Theory'

May 22, 2022 • A handful of Republicans are still echoing the “great replacement theory” following the mass shooting at a Buffalo grocery story. A political panel joined American Voices with Alicia Menendez to discuss the harm of the racist conspiracy

Tucker Carlson Backtracks after Peddling a Conspiracy Theory Cited by NY Mass Shooting Suspect

May 19, 2022 • Fox News host Tucker Carlson has pushed the racist “great replacement theory” on television more than 400 times. But after the conspiracy theory was cited by the Buffalo shooting suspect in his online manifesto, Carlson now insists that he does not know what the conspiracy is and that “the left” is responsible for pushing it. In this special report, MSNBC’s Ari Melber calls Carlson out for his hypocrisy, pointing to footage from Carlson’s own show as evidence, and highlights the double standard in his reporting of incidents of gun violence.

‘A Poison’: Tucker Carlson under Pressure amid Debunked Conspiracy Theory as Biden Slams ‘Lies’

May 18, 2022 • President Biden visited Buffalo, New York, after the deadliest mass shooting of the year took place at a local grocery store over the weekend. Meanwhile, Fox News ownership is under fire for amplifying a racist conspiracy theory linked to the shooting. MSNBC’s Ari Melber is joined by former RNC Chair Michael Steele to discuss the far-right’s promotion of “Replacement Theory.”

Fox News’ Impact on Radicalizing the Right | The Mehdi Hasan Show

May 17, 2022 • Ultimately, only the alleged gunman is responsible for Saturday’s mass shooting in Buffalo, NY. But the Murdoch family has let its marquee cable channel evolve into an amplifier of fear, anger and conspiracy theories - as well as a magnet for right-wing fanaticism. Author and TV critic Eric Deggans joins Mehdi to discuss.

Buffalo Massacre: Gunman Cited Racist “Great Replacement” Conspiracy Theory Popularized by Fox News

May 16, 2022 • The mass shooter who killed 10 people in Buffalo, New York, on Saturday posted a racist manifesto online before targeting a majority-Black neighborhood. His writings took heavily from conservative conspiracy theories that white people were in danger of being replaced by people of color. This so-called Great Replacement conspiracy theory has been promoted by major far-right media figures including Tucker Carlson of Fox News. “What it does is create a dynamic where believers view immigrants and nonwhite people as an existential threat not only to themselves physically but to their position in society,” says Nikki McCann Ramírez, associate research director at Media Matters for America, who has researched how Carlson uses his show to launder white nationalist ideology. We also speak with prominent antiracist scholar Ibram X. Kendi, who says mainstream conservatives are increasingly parroting extremist talking points.

Fact-check: Fox's Tucker Carlson Caught Amplifying Kremlin Claims

Mar 12, 2022 • U.S. officials are calling out Russia for renewing false allegations the U.S. is funding bio-weapons labs in Ukraine. Despite this, Fox News host Tucker Carlson has been amplifying Russia’s claims. MSNBC’s Ari Melber is joined by Michael McFaul, the former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, to discuss.

The Fox News Journalist Fact-checking Channel’s Pundits On Air over Ukraine

THE GUARDIAN: National security correspondent Jennifer Griffin has been brutally calling out the ‘distortions’ of Tucker Carlson and co

As Russia prepared to invade Ukraine, some hosts at the rightwing Fox News channel were passionately defending Vladimir Putin. Once Russian troops were in Ukraine, those same personalities, such as Tucker Carlson, swiftly began to blame Joe Biden for the invasion.

That will not have surprised regular viewers of Fox, but what has raised eyebrows is the way that the views of hosts such as Carlson, the crew at the morning show Fox & Friends, and the opinions of multiple Fox News guests have been corrected often in real time, by one of Fox News’ own journalists

Time and again over the past few days Jennifer Griffin, Fox News’ national security correspondent, has taken to the airwaves to directly contradict the messages of her colleagues and their guests. With video » | Adam Gabbatt | Friday, March 4, 2022

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Fox News Anchor Neil Cavuto Tests Positive for Coronavirus.

Fox News host Neil Cavuto learned on Monday that he had tested positive for Covid. | Rob Kim/Getty Images
THE NEW YORK TIMES: Neil Cavuto, a Fox News anchor, has tested positive for the coronavirus.

Mr. Cavuto, who is vaccinated against Covid, said he learned about the tests results Monday after his show, “Your World with Neil Cavuto,” and was not on the air Tuesday.

“While I’m somewhat stunned by this news, doctors tell me I’m lucky as well. Had I not been vaccinated, and with all my medical issues, this would be a far more dire situation,” Mr. Cavuto said in a statement released by Fox News. “It’s not, because I did and I’m surviving this because I did.”

Mr. Cavuto has been very public with his health issues throughout the years. He was treated for cancer in the 1980s and had open-heart surgery in 2016. He was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1997. » | Isabella Grullón Paz | Tuesday, October 19, 2021

Fox Fires Legal Analyst Andrew Napolitano after Male Co-worker Sues for Sexual Harassment

Andrew Napolitano at the 2015 Conservative Political Action Conference[.] Photo: Gage Skidmore/via Wikipedia
LGBTQ NATION: This is the third allegation of same-sex sexual misconduct by Napolitano, who is not out.

“Judge” Andrew Napolitano has been fired from Fox News after a male co-worker filed a sexual harassment lawsuit. Fox Business production assistant John Fawcett alleges that executives knew about Napolitano’s behaviour, but ignored it.

This is the third time a man has accused Napolitano of sexual misconduct. The former judge is not out as a gay or bisexual man. » | Bil Browning | Tuesday, August 3, 2021

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Stelter: I Watched Hannity's Show for a Week. Here's What I Found

Jun 27, 2021 • CNN's Brian Stelter says the content coming from pro-Trump media, led by Fox News host Sean Hannity, softens the ground for conspiracies and makes their audience comfortable with violence.

Stelter: Why Isn't Fox News Fact-checking Carlson's January 6 Claim?

CNN's Brian Stelter emailed Fox News a number of questions about host Tucker Carlson's claim that the FBI was behind the January 6 Capitol insurrection and why their team of journalists have not investigated the veracity of the allegations.

Dominion Voting Sues Fox News for $1.6bn over Election Fraud Claims

BBC: Dominion Voting Systems has filed a $1.6bn (£1.2bn) defamation lawsuit against Fox News, arguing it promoted baseless claims of vote-rigging.

Conservatives and Trump campaigners had claimed last year that the US company had altered its voting machines to deny re-election to Donald Trump.

The false claim of a stolen election was promoted by Mr Trump and helped fuel the 6 January attack on Congress.

Fox News said it would fight the "baseless lawsuit in court"

. The lawsuit argues that Fox News, which hosted guests touting anti-Dominion conspiracy theories during the 2020 election, "recklessly disregarded the truth" because "the lies were good for Fox's business".

"Fox News Media is proud of our 2020 election coverage, which stands in the highest tradition of American journalism, and we will vigorously defend against this baseless lawsuit in court," the media company said in its response. » | Friday, March 26, 2021

As Fox News Struggles at Home, Murdoch Brings Its Playbook to the U.K.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: His venture and another upstart by a rival group of investors will challenge the BBC and Britain’s efforts to guard against political bias in television news.

LONDON — Beset by declining ratings, upheaval in its on-air ranks and a multibillion-dollar defamation suit related to its election coverage, Fox News is staggering out of the Trump era — blamed by many for seeding the poisonous political culture that brought a violent mob into the halls of the United States Capitol.

Yet in Britain, where television news is regulated to avoid political bias, Rupert Murdoch and a competing group of investors are seizing this moment to create two upstart news services that will challenge the BBC and other broadcasters by borrowing heavily from Mr. Murdoch’s Fox playbook. » | Mark Landler | Tuesday, February 16, 2021