Tucker Carlson was the biggest star on Fox News.
Carlson’s show defined Fox.
But now Fox News firing Tucker Carlson led to this huge change.
As Black Eye Politics reports:
Fox News firing Tucker Carlson was easily the most shocking media story of the year.
But the truth of what happened is even worse than conservatives understand.
And all hell broke loose when an insider revealed why Fox News fired Tucker Carlson.
Everyone is trying to figure out why Fox News fired Tucker Carlson.
The network did not give a reason in its terse statement announcing it and Carlson agreed to part ways.
Now insiders at Fox News are filling in the gaps on Carlson’s firing and the picture they paint is not pretty.
One Fox News source told Breitbart that the plan is to continue paying Carlson’s contract which runs through 2024 — to keep Carlson from joining a competitor or starting his own media platform through the next election.
“As of right now, the plan remains the same: pay out Carlson’s contract and keep him on the sidelines through the 2024 elections,” the Fox News source told Breitbart News. “They knew they would take a beating for this, but everyone — and I mean everyone — is pretty rattled. They weren’t expecting the blowback to be this bad. Hate to say it, but it’s clear that Rupert has lost a step or two.”
The source said Fox used the Dominion settlement and what many saw as a nuisance suit by former producer Abby Grossberg to sideline Carlson.
Fox News management — a second source adds — believes while ratings will suffer in the short term – viewership plunged 50 percent in the days following Fox News taking Carlson off the air — that as the 2024 election gets closer the numbers will rebound as conservatives have no other options since Carlson won’t be on the air.
“As the Dominion thing got uglier, and particularly the Grossberg thing, which is getting uglier by the minute, the Murdochs just want a clean slate,” the source explained. “The election is coming up next year, and they think they’re going to get their viewers back anyway because there’s nowhere else to go.”
Sources also told Breitbart that the real reason Fox News wanted Carlson gone is because Carlson would not play ball with new editorial edicts from founder Rupert Murdoch to turn Fox News into an establishment-friendly vehicle to support RINOs like Mitch McConnell.
“This change at Fox makes it more fundamentally top-down driven,” the source added. “Only recently did Fox try and reflect grassroots conservatism more. I think we’re going to see a reversion to the Fox of the past, where it’s fewer segments attacking Mitch McConnell and generally dumbed down.”
The source explained that when Mitch McConnell would support gun control, the Green New Deal, or amnesty, Carlson would alert conservatives and generate a tidal wave of grassroots opposition to McConnell and other RINOs betraying the GOP base.
Murdoch apparently wants Fox News to work as a support system for McConnell and not serve as a news organization with a conservative point of view.
“I think this has less to do with Trump and DeSantis and more to do with people like Mitch McConnell and John Thune,” this source continued. “The change in the programming will be that if there’s some sort of controversial bill moving on Capitol Hill, Tucker would often use his show to try to kill it. That sort of stuff won’t be going on anymore. I just think the network and the programming will be dumber, rah rah Republicans. Milquetoast content. It’s a reversion to what Fox was. The Tucker era at Fox was a deviation from the norm at Fox.”
Since Fox News did not think it could control Tucker Carlson and get to sit quietly when McConnell and his RINO allies tried to pass Joe Biden’s agenda it looks like Fox News decided to take Tucker Carlson off the air.