All change at Murdoch Towers: Tucker Carlson has hosted his last primetime show at Fox News. His departure was clearly a shock: his 8 p.m. show was being trailed on Fox and Friends this morning.
In a rather neutral press release, the network announced that:
Fox News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways.
We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor.
The reasons for Carlson’s shock departure are unclear – Steerpike understands from a source with knowledge that no reason was given.
Rumors had been circulating in the Fox offices that a big dismissal could follow the $787 settlement of the Dominion case – but most had assumed that Carlson was invulnerable. According to Steerpike’s sources, that may have all changed when the content of various Fox hosts’ text messages was revealed as part of discovery.
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