The Unreported Tucker Carlson Story
Commentary
The business of cable news and commentary isn’t just business; it goes to the core of how the First Amendment operates in the 21st century.
Fox’s most popular primetime host, Tucker Carlson, was shown the door a week after Fox settled with Dominion Voting Systems for $787.5 million in a defamation suit. Texts from Carlson, unearthed during discovery, revealed an on-air titan who apparently thought he could play as fast and loose as he liked, making assertions about the 2020 election he privately believed to be false, expressing loathing for Donald Trump while staunchly defending him before the cameras, and ripping apart Fox management, sometimes through use of misogynistic obscenities….