“Fox News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways,” the network said in a statement. “We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor.”
The obviously sudden departure — Carlson gave no indication he was leaving in his last appearance Friday, and the network was still running promos for his show this morning — came less than a week after Fox settled a defamation lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems, which had sued the network for false claims about the 2020 election. Carlson was among several on-air personalities expected to testify.
Many of Carlson’s private messages were released in motions filed by Dominion, revealing that the host was skeptical of many of the election-fraud claims made on-air by Trump-affiliated attorneys Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani.
But it was Carlson’s comments about Fox management, as revealed in the Dominion case, that played a role in his departure from Fox, a person familiar with the company’s thinking told The Post.
Fox Corporation has lost more than $1 billion in stock value, more than 5% since the announcement, today, that Tucker Carlson and Fox have parted ways.
Tucker was on a Full Sail podcast last week where he was ripping on network news. Just calling them drug pushers for Big Pharma.
He has tens of millions, maybe he will just ride off into the sunset. Or will he find a place where he can do a weekly show where he gets to control the editorial content?
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
As long as people are hypothesizing as to why Carlson has been fired and what he is going to do next, this is an interesting possibility.
Carlson joins Musk and develops Twitter into a competitive media platform. Like Musk, Carlson is financially sound and now wants to create a news and opinion conglomerate, open to all ideas.
