The real reason why Fox News dismissed Tucker Carlson, say the initiates
Some claim that it was a personal problem with Rupert Murdoch, others his text messages disclosed.
Monday April 24 Fox News announced that long -standing organization and anchor TUCKER Carlson had "agreed to separate". The news surprised the public and the industry, since the host had the most popular program on the network and regularly attracted more than three million viewers . "We thank him for his service to the network as a host and before that as a contributor," continues the network declaration. This also indicates that Carlson's dismissal was immediate, noting that the last episode of TUCKER Carlson This evening was the episode of April 21, and this replacement show Fox News tonight Will be inhabited by guest guests until Carlson's permanent successor is appointed.
However, the declaration gives no reason for which Carlson was ousted from the network, and the controversial political commentator himself did not offer one. But in the days following the ad, the initiates presented complaints going to his personal relationship with boss Rupert Murdoch to texts of its which have been made public in the recent trial of Dominion. Read more to find out why Fox News dismissed Carlson, according to sources close to the situation.
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Murdoch may have been upset by a recent speech by Carlson.
April 25, Vanity published a report in which a source claims that Murdoch was disturbed by a recent speech Carlson gave on his Christian faith and conservatism. In the speech, presented on Friday April 21 at the Gala from the 50th anniversary of the Heritage Foundation , anchor described those who oppose his opinions as "pleading for ... evil". He suggested that it would be more productive to "say a prayer" every day than to debate hot political questions of the day with the other side.
The nameless source said Vanity Discourse, "this thing has ruptured. He doesn't like all spiritual discourse."
Murdoch's ex-fiancée may also have been a factor.
THE Vanity The report explains that his reflections on Carlson may have been the reason why Murdoch broken with the ex-fiancée Ann Lesley Smith Earlier this month. The former couple was Recently engaged for two weeks And had planned to get married this summer, according to The New York Times .
By Vanity , Murdoch missed her commitments with Smith because she believed that Carlson was a "messenger of God". A source said that the three all dined together in March and that Smith released a bible to read passages, "Rupert sat there and looked." The report notes that by withdrawing Carlson DESISRISES, the 92-year-old also cancels Smith's favorite program, which is a theory to explain why Fox may have broken the links with Carlson.
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Some incendiary texts have come out of the Dominion affair.
Fox News recently set up a trial with Dominion Voting Systems after the company continued the defamation network with regard to the statements according to which its technology was involved in the "flight" of the 2020 presidential election of 2020 Donald Trump . Fox News agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems $ 787.5 million.
Carlson was one of Fox News anchors that had accused Dominion on the antenna, but something else that came out during the case may have assigned his position to Fox News.
As indicated by The Guardian ,, Carlson's texts have been revealed In court documents which include it badly speaking of other people to Fox News and the network, expressing his doubts about the complaint for electoral fraud and criticizing the former president Donald Trump . Wall Street's journal report that he too called Fox Executive The word C .
And he is involved in another trial.
Former producer of Fox News Abby Grossberg has filed a legal action against society claiming that it was set up to be a scapegoat In the case of Dominion voting systems. She also claims that she was harassed and that Fox News is a misogynistic workplace, as reported by NBC News. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
Grossberg had worked on Carlson's show. The New York Times reported earlier this week that His trial includes allegations That the male producers of the show have made anti -Semitic jokes and used vulgar words to describe and refer to women.
A Fox News spokesperson told NBC News that Grossberg's claims were "non-magazine" and "riddled with false allegations against the network and our employees".
In response to Carlson leaving the network, Fox News directed Best Life to his original declaration. The best life also contacted Carlson to comment.
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