Ever since it began in 2016, Tucker Carlson Tonight has been easily the most interesting news show on American television. It was never, as Carlson’s many detractors claim, Trumpist propaganda. On the contrary, Carlson was a rare bright spot of originality in a boringly partisan media landscape.
And now he’s gone: fired directly by Rupert Murdoch, I’m reliably told, with no reason given, just a few days after Fox News paid out $787 million to settle with Dominion Voting Systems.
‘It was the older Aussie,’ says my source: ‘the 92-year old-who just called off his engagement and settled for 800 million so that he wouldn’t have to go to Wilmington.’ (The Fox/Dominion trial was held in Wilmington, Delaware.)
The irony is that, unlike other voices on Fox, Carlson never actually went all in on the crazier conspiracy theories about election rigging in 2020.
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