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Fox News ousts Tucker Carlson, its most popular host

NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News on Monday ousted prime-time host Tucker Carlson, whose stew of grievances and political theories about Russia and the Jan. 6 insurrection had grown to define the network in recent years and make him an influential force in GOP politics.

https://apnews.com/article/tucker-carlson-out-fox-news-58a8421c55978f223b9c4b1d1cbe50be

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Tucker Carlson and his producer out at Fox News, 1 week after Dominion settlement

TV host Tucker Carlson and Fox News have "agreed to part ways," Fox said in a statement Monday.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/tucker-carlson-fox-news/story?

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Defamation suit produced trove of Tucker Carlson messages

WASHINGTON (AP) — The $787.5 million settlement between Fox News and Dominion Voting Systems spared executives and on-air talent from taking the stand in a defamation lawsuit that centered on Fox airing false claims of a stolen election in the weeks after former President Donald Trump’s 2020 loss.

https://apnews.com/article/tucker-carlson-fox-news-dominion-lawsuit-trump-5d6aed4bc7eb1f7a01702ebea86f37a1?

Past Fox firings carry lessons for network after Carlson

NEW YORK (AP) — Before ousting Tucker Carlson, Fox News had twice fired wildly popular hosts – and both times the network recovered better than the stars it cut loose.

https://apnews.com/article/carlson-fox-fired-hannity-ingraham-a86f831174be8478d01f162649a95830?

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Tucker Carlson was doing something different — and darker — than most Fox hosts

It might sound odd to claim that a TV host losing his program is seismic news for American politics, but with Tucker Carlson’s exit from Fox News, that claim is justified.

https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/4/24/23696053/tucker-carlson-exit-fox-news-populism?

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Fox Has a Secret ‘Oppo File’ to Keep Tucker Carlson in Check, Sources Say

Fox News executives have in their possession a dossier of alleged dirt on Tucker Carlson should he attack the network in the wake of his departure, eight sources at and close to the network tell Rolling Stone.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/fox-has-a-secret-oppo-file-to-keep-tucker-carlson-in-check-sources-say/ar-AA1al6Xl?

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Tucker Carlson speaks out for 1st time after Fox News firing

NEW YORK (AP) — Tucker Carlson emerged Wednesday, two days after Fox News fired him, with a two-minute, campaign-style monologue that didn’t address why he suddenly became unemployed.

https://apnews.com/article/tucker-carlson-emerges-fox-monologue-fired-860cf59f459cbc2c93e2ab1b8ea5499c?

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Tucker Carlson’s vulgar language in texts contributed to Fox News firing – report

Host called senior colleague a C-word in text message obtained by lawyers as part of Dominion lawsuit

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/apr/26/tucker-carlson-fired-text-message-fox-executive?

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Fired Tucker Carlson producer: Misogyny and bullying 'trickles down from the top'

Allegations painting Fox News as an abusive workplace that excuses misogyny and anti-Semitism have been put on blast in the aftermath of star host Tucker Carlson's abrupt firing earlier this week.

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/28/1172584447/tucker-carlson-firing-misogyny-abuse-fox-news-abby-grossberg?

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Report: Racist text helped spur Fox to oust Tucker Carlson

NEW YORK (AP) — Text messages that helped lead Fox News to part ways with star host Tucker Carlson included one in which he declared that Trump supporters beating a protester was “not how white men fight,” according to The New York Times.

https://apnews.com/article/tucker-carlson-fox-news-dominion-racist-text-0ca0ef08799f3d99d88ea953e9dd7dac

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"Good riddance": GOP lawmakers' private glee at Tucker Carlson firing

A sizable number of GOP lawmakers are quietly cheering Fox News’ decision to remove Tucker Carlson from its airwaves as making it easier to provide aid to Ukraine, Axios has learned.

https://www.axios.com/2023/05/04/tucker-carlson-ukraine-fox-news-republicans?

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Scoop: Fox News says Tucker Carlson breached his contract

Fox News Wednesday notified Tucker Carlson's lawyers that the former prime-time anchor violated his contract with the network when he launched his own Twitter show on Tuesday, according to a copy of a letter obtained by Axios.

https://www.axios.com/2023/06/07/fox-news-tucker-carlson-contract-breach?

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Fox demands Tucker cease and desist

Fox News sent a "cease and desist" letter to Tucker Carlson as he ramps up a competing "Tucker on Twitter" series that drew a combined 169 million views for its first two episodes, Axios has learned.

• Why it matters: The contract battle between Fox and its former top host — who was taken off the air in April, after the network's Dominion settlement — has mighty repercussions for the conservative media ecosystem.
• Carlson and his growing production team are working to elevate Elon Musk's Twitter as a news platform.

? The cease-and-desist letter has "NOT FOR PUBLICATION" in bold at the top, surrounded by a red border.

What's happening: Fox is continuing to pay Carlson, and maintains that his contract keeps his content exclusive to Fox through Dec. 31, 2024.

• Carlson is making a First Amendment argument for posting on Twitter, and asserts that Fox has committed material breaches of his contract.

Behind the scenes: Carlson's first two Twitter episodes were straight-to-camera monologues. I'm told he plans to keep iterating with longer, more varied episodes and the addition of guests.

• We hear some big names have been lined up.
• Justin Wells, Carlson's executive producer, tweeted yesterday: "Next Episode of Tucker on Twitter coming Tuesday: Tucker’s response to the indictment of President Donald Trump."

? Harmeet Dhillon, a lawyer who represents Carlson along with Bryan Freedman, said in a statement to Axios: "Fox News continues to ignore the interests of its viewers, not to mention its shareholder obligations ... Fox is now demanding that Tucker Carlson be silent until after the 2024 election."

• "Tucker will not be silenced by anyone ... He is a singularly important voice on matters of public interest in our country, and will remain so."

Fox News didn't comment.

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Fox reaches $12 million settlement with former Tucker Carlson producer

Fox News agreed to pay $12 million to settle two lawsuits from former producer Abby Grossberg, who accused the network of fostering a hostile work environment.

• Grossberg accused Fox of pushing her into giving false testimony in the Dominion case and then firing her when she went public with her accusations. Fox News denied that at the time.

?️ The big picture: The settlement comes two months after Fox paid a record-setting defamation settlement of $787.5 million to Dominion Voting Systems and fired its star host Tucker Carlson.

• In a separate suit, Grossberg claimed that while working as a producer on Carlson's show, she was subjected to a culture in which employees made sexist and antisemitic remarks and engaged in sexual harassment.

Some of the employees named in the suit denied those allegations. Carlson — who was mostly working remotely during the period in question — told NPR: "I never met her."

• Grossberg said in a statement that she stands by her allegations but hopes the deal "represents a positive step by the network regarding its treatment of women and minorities in the workplace."
• A Fox News spokesperson said, “We are pleased that we have been able to resolve this matter without further litigation."

? Our thought bubble via Axios' senior media reporter Sara Fischer: Grossberg had released multiple recordings from her time at Fox. Her legal team said she had at least 90 tapes in total.

• The $12 million settlement begs the question of what was on those tapes.

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Tucker Carlson Cooks Up Completely Bonkers New Trump Conspiracy Theory

The former Fox News host made the wild claim during an interview with Adam Carolla.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tucker-carlson-trump-assassination_n_64f02dc5e4b02f61505e5aef