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☆ Text shows Tucker Carlson describing how a 'group of Trump guys' jumped an 'Antifa kid,' saying, 'It's not how white men fight'
  + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
A text shows Tucker Carlson describing a video of a "group of Trump guys" jumping an "Antifa kid." In the leaked text, obtained by The New York Times, he said, "It's not how white men fight." A leaked text message from the settled Dominion defamation lawsuit shows Tucker Carlson describing a video of the violent assault of an "Antifa kid" being jumped by a "group of Trump guys," with the former Fox News superstar saying that "it's not how white men fight." According to the Times, Carlson sent the text to one of his producers the day after the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot. It's not how white men fight.
☆ Trump Agrees to Return to CNN, Ending a Long Boycott
  + stars: | 2023-05-02 | by ( Jeremy W. Peters | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Fox was the first network to do so. The move is also a way of drawing a sharp contrast with one of his expected opponents in the race, Gov. Lately, Mr. Trump has fumed about the release of private emails that show how Rupert Murdoch, chairman of Fox Corporation, expressed derision and contempt for him and his false claims of being cheated in the 2020 election. Mr. Trump lashed out at Mr. Murdoch and Fox for “aiding & abetting the DESTRUCTION OF AMERICA” on his social media platform, Truth Social. Mr. Trump also plans to skip at least one of the first two debates with his rivals for the 2024 Republican nomination, according to several people familiar with his plans.
☆ Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch reportedly had calls with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy weeks before Tucker Carlson was fired
  + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( Britney Nguyen | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch had calls with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Semafor reported. The separate phone calls reportedly happened weeks before Fox News host Tucker Carlson was fired. There is no clear link between the Murdochs' calls with Zelenskyy and Carlson's firing from Fox News. Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch had separate phone calls with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy weeks before Tucker Carlson, who has been critical of Ukraine and Zelenskyy, was fired from Fox News, Semafor reported. The Washington Post reported that during a Fox newsroom meeting, Rupert Murdoch"loudly" challenged Carlson about one of his segments on the Ukraine war.
☆ Will Harry's mission to purge press overshadow King Charles' coronation?
  + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( Michael Holden | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +5 min
"They have lied under oath, perjured themselves in the process and have proven they're above the law. "I don't think he's got that much to lose, given the vilification that he has suffered from the British press over the last 15 years." "Nevertheless, the dynamic duo of monarchy and media — although neither talk of their intertwined dependence — are hard at work to ensure the coronation is smash-hit entertainment. "It is clear to me that the tabloid press are the mothership of online trolling," he wrote. How much more blood will stain their typing fingers before someone can put a stop to this madness?"
☆ President Biden jokes to dinner guests if you're disoriented or confused, you're either 'drunk or Marjorie Taylor Greene'
  + stars: | 2023-04-30 | by ( Alia Shoaib | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Biden mocked Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene during his White House Correspondents' Dinner speech. He said that if guests felt confused, they were either "drunk or Marjorie Taylor Greene." If you find yourself disoriented or confused, it's either you're drunk or Marjorie Taylor Greene," Biden said. A composite image of President Joe Biden and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican, booing the president during the State of the Union. This year marked the first time the annual dinner returned to its full form since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
☆ Opinion: Biden’s secret weapon to defuse the age issue
  + stars: | 2023-04-30 | by ( Opinion Dean Obeidallah | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +7 min
Recent polls tell us that many Americans have questions about the age of the 80-year-old Biden heading into the 2024 election. It’s in everybody’s mind and by everyone, I mean The New York Times.” Biden then added, “Headline: ‘Biden’s advanced age is a big issue. Biden’s reelection campaign (he announced his bid last week) is not the first time that age has been front and center in a presidential campaign. It became even more acute after the first presidential debate in October 1984. At the second presidential debate, however, Reagan was ready for the age question.
☆ Fox News has lost half its 8 p.m. audience in just days since Tucker Carlson's firing
  + stars: | 2023-04-28 | by ( Aaron Mcdade | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Fox News has lost about half of its 8 p.m. audience in the days following Tucker Carlson's firing. 1.33 million viewers tuned in on Wednesday, compared to 2.65 million for Carlson's unexpected final show last Friday. The ratings data from Nielsen has been tracked by CNN's Oliver Darcy every day since Carlson was fired. Carlson's last show Friday drew 2.65 million viewers, itself down from the other four days of last week which each topped 3 million, and Tuesday and Wednesday this week fell to 1.7 million and 1.33 million viewers, CNN reported. The viewers appear to be opting for other conservative networks, as Darcy reported that Newsmax's 8 p.m. hour totaled 510,000 viewers, tripling the audience they drew at the same time last Wednesday.
☆ Palace email says queen knew Murdoch's UK group spied on her family
  + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Sam Tobin | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +3 min
Clive Goodman, the News of the World's then royal reporter, was jailed in 2007 for illegally intercepting royal household phone messages. Harry, estranged from his father King Charles, says he did not bring a lawsuit earlier because of a "secret agreement" between Buckingham Palace and Murdoch's executives to protect the royal family from embarrassment. News Group denies any such agreement, while the palace has not commented. Osman told Brooks in a separate 2018 email that there was an "institutional appetite" within the royal family to resolve Harry’s phone-hacking case. Harry, who now lives in California with his family, was not in court, but is following the proceedings by video link.
☆ Howard Stern says Tucker Carlson was likely 'nothing' to Rupert Murdoch and just another 'worker bee' in his giant corporation
  + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Natalie Musumeci | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Carlson forgot that he was just a "worker bee" in media mogul Rupert Murdoch's company, Stern said. Radio icon Howard Stern said ousted Fox News star Tucker Carlson was likely "nothing" to Fox Corp. chair Rupert Murdoch and that he forgot he was just another "worker bee" in the billionaire media mogul's gigantic company. "You're nothing because he's still gonna' have billions upon billions upon billions of dollars and own a giant corporation. You're a worker bee. Murdoch himself made the call to get rid of Carlson, Fox News' top-rated host, people familiar with the situation had told the Los Angeles Times.
☆ The 7 theories for why Tucker Carlson got fired from Fox News
  + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Ryan Hogg | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +8 min
Tucker Carlson was axed by Fox News Monday, days after it settled Dominion's defamation lawsuit. Here are seven theories for why Fox News decided to part ways with Carlson. Since then, media industry insiders have been buzzing with different theories for why Carlson was pushed out. The C-wordWithin the Dominion lawsuit, there emerged a pattern of vulgar language spewed by Carlson throughout his time at Fox News. Rupert Murdoch (right) and Lachlan Murdoch at the US Open in 2018.
☆ Leaked Breitbart messages highlight right-wing media struggle over Republican party’s future
  + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Oliver Darcy | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +5 min
The tense back and forth inside Breitbart reflects a growing tension inside the right-wing media universe writ large — one that could have consequences for national politics. Ahead of the 2024 Republican primary contest, battle lines are starting to be drawn. It’s reminicent of what took place in right-wing media during the 2016 GOP primary season. But the manner in which the biggest mouthpieces in right-wing media cover the looming primary is highly consequential, and could ultimately decide who gets the party’s blessing. Republican primary voters primarily get their news from partisan outlets, such as Breitbart and Fox News, while shunning news from mainstream outlets.
☆ Tucker Carlson's history of alleged workplace sexism stretches back to 2015, long before Abby Grossberg
  + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Katherine Long | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +10 min
Possible rationales include Murdoch's contempt for Carlson's religiosity and Carlson's insistence on hewing to conspiracy theories about the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Internal correspondence unearthed in a defamation lawsuit against Fox News showed Carlson used sexist expletives to refer to a female Fox executive and a guest. The company last week agreed to pay $787.5 million to settle a defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems. Carlson was one of many Fox News hosts who promoted false election conspiracies, the subject of the defamation suit, on their shows. Fox News is still facing a similar defamation suit from another voting machine manufacturer.
☆ Fox agrees to give more Murdoch docs to Smartmatic in its defamation case
  + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Marshall Cohen | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +3 min
New York CNN —Fox News has agreed to give voting technology company Smartmatic additional documents about Fox Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch and other senior corporate executives. “We will produce the materials as quickly as we are able to,” Fox lawyer Winn Allen said. These materials will include deposition transcripts and exhibits, apparently from the recently settled defamation case involving Dominion Voting Systems, a Smartmatic lawyer said in court. The monster case pits Smartmatic against Fox News, Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, Fox hosts Maria Bartiromo and Jeanine Pirro, and former host Lou Dobbs, who all promoted the baseless lie that Smartmatic rigged the 2020 election. An appeals court recently dropped Fox Corp. as a defendant, but Smartmatic refiled its lawsuit and is trying to re-add the parent company.
☆ Harry not criticising queen over hacking deal with Murdoch's UK group, court told
  + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Sam Tobin Michael Holden | Sam Tobin | Michael Holden | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +3 min
LONDON, April 26 (Reuters) - Prince Harry is not criticising his grandmother, the late Queen Elizabeth, or Britain's royal family over a "secret agreement" with Rupert Murdoch's UK newspaper arm, his lawyer told London's High Court on Wednesday. His lawyer David Sherborne told the court on Wednesday that Harry did not bring his lawsuit previously because of the agreement with NGN, which denies its existence. Sherborne said Harry was "told more" about phone hacking in 2012, when Harry says in his witness statement that he was told his voicemails had been intercepted, "but that was essentially dealt with by his family ... and their solicitor". "This is no criticism of the queen or his family," Sherborne said. Harry, who now lives in California with his family, was not in court, but watched proceedings by video link, Sherborne said.
☆ Tucker Carlson breaks his silence without addressing why Fox News fired him
  + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Lillian Rizzo | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +2 min
Tucker Carlson broke his silence on Wednesday night, two days after his unceremonious exit from Fox News. On Monday, Fox News fired Carlson, noting his last show aired on Friday. "FOX News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways," the company said in a statement Monday. Vulgar private messages about his colleagues pushed Fox leadership toward letting go Carlson, The Wall Street Journal reported. Executives at Fox found out about the messages on the eve of the trial, according to The New York Times.
☆ Lawyers plan to depose Tucker Carlson about 'sexist' workplace later this year amid reports he was ousted from Fox News over misogynistic messages
  + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +7 min
Grossberg's lawsuit, filed in Manhattan federal court against Fox News in March, also names both Carlson and one of his top producers, Justin Wells, as defendants. Their removal from Fox News, however, doesn't mean they can escape scrutiny in the lawsuit, Grossberg's lawyer Tanvir Rahman told Insider. Grossberg's lawsuit was one factor in the decision to fire him, according to the Los Angeles Times. Grossberg's lawsuit alleges she experienced a hostile environment while working as a producer for shows hosted by Carlson and Maria Bartiromo. Fox executives derided Bartiromo with sexist terms, calling her "menopausal," "hysterical," a "diva," and a "crazy bitch," Grossberg's lawsuit claims.
☆ Fox News’ sudden firing of Tucker Carlson may have come down to one simple calculation
  + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( Oliver Darcy | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +5 min
In the hours following Carlson’s abrupt dismissal from the right-wing channel, a number of explanations have emerged — all with plausibility. One veteran television news executive told me that they believed the decision came down to a straightforward calculation by the Murdochs: Risk versus reward. It is pretty much enshrined as a law of physics in the universe of right-wing media that whoever the Murdochs put in prime time will rate. All that said, Carlson will test the hypothesis that Fox News as a brand trumps any single personality. Carlson is a force unlike any other in right-wing media and politics.
☆ Rupert Murdoch Made the Decision to Ouster Tucker Carlson: LA Times Report
  + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( Nicholas Carlson | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Sources told an LA Times reporter that Rupert Murdoch himself made the decision to fire Tucker Carlson. Meanwhile, other outlets reported that Fox Corporation CEO Lachlan Murdoch and Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott made the call. Murdoch was tired of Tucker Carlson's conspiracy theories about the January 6, 2021 riots at the Capitol. Fox News has not addressed the specific reasons the network and Carlson parted ways, saying in a Monday morning statement: "FOX News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways. Editor's note, April 24: This story has been updated to include recent reporting from Axios, The New York Times, and The Washington Post.
☆ News anchor carnage is a post-Trump reality
  + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
Rupert Murdoch’s Fox (FOXA.O) announced the abrupt departure of star host Tucker Carlson, while Don Lemon, an anchor at rival CNN, said he had been fired. After the easy news cycle served up by former President Donald Trump’s administration, the networks are going through an identity crisis. Network chief Chris Licht is trying to reposition the organization toward straight-down-the-middle journalism, but is struggling to get the lineup to click. Even MSNBC is trying to recapture the magic after leading host Rachel Maddow left her five-day-a-week spot last year. They do not reflect the views of Reuters News, which, under the Trust Principles, is committed to integrity, independence, and freedom from bias.
☆ Tucker Carlson's exit from Fox News may be ratings bane, advertising boon
  + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( Aditya Soni Nivedita Balu | Aditya Soni | Nivedita Balu | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +3 min
April 25 (Reuters) - Star host Tucker Carlson's abrupt exit from Fox News is likely to hit short-term ratings but could nudge more mainstream advertisers to consider a network they have snubbed for being too partisan, investors and analysts said. News of his departure on Monday wiped nearly $1 billion from the market valuation of the network's parent company, Rupert Murdoch-controlled Fox Corp (FOXA.O). "It's a huge deal," said Matthew Tuttle, head of Tuttle Capital Management, an investment firm that is betting against Fox shares. The conservative-leaning Carlson's prime-time show was the highest-rated cable news program in the key 25-to-54 age demographic on Fox News - the most-watched U.S. cable news network. It's likely that advertisers who were seeking that audience may have limited other options for conservative news viewership without skewing too conservative."
☆ Prince Harry claims Murdoch newspapers paid ‘large sum’ to settle William hacking claim
  + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( Lindsay Isaac | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +2 min
London CNN —Buckingham Palace and Rupert Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers reached a secret agreement over historical phone hacking claims, court documents filed on behalf of Prince Harry allege. Officials at Kensington Palace, which represents Prince William, told CNN it does not comment on legal proceedings. Prince Harry states that his late grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, was aware of settlement talks. NGN said it has no comment regarding the suggestion that it made a confidential settlement with Prince William. The company also claims that Prince Harry ought to have brought his lawsuit sooner.
☆ Insiders say Tucker Carlson overplayed his hand at Fox but the 'whole universe' of right-wing media is courting him now
  + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( Claire Atkinson | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +8 min
the Fox insider said. Lachlan Murdoch had defended Carlson time and again, most publicly in April 2021, pushing back against Anti-Defamation League complaints of the anchor's "great replacement theory" comments. Lachlan Murdoch and Rupert Murdoch. A second Fox News insider, who is familiar with conversations happening in Australia, said Lachlan Murdoch was looking long term. The board has also put pressure on the Murdoch family to change things at Fox News.
☆ Fox's not allowing Tucker Carlson to say goodbye to viewers is the equivalent of 'execution' says fired CNN anchor
  + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( Natalie Musumeci | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Tucker Carlson's abrupt ousting from Fox News is more like an "execution," according to a fired CNN anchor. "Not being given a chance to sign off is the television equivalent of an execution," Brian Stelter said in Vanity Fair. Yet Carlson, Fox News' top-rated host, never got the chance to say goodbye to his audience, thanks to his sudden ousting on Monday by the conservative media powerhouse. Advertisements featuring Fox News personalities, including Tucker Carlson, adorn the front of the News Corporation building, March 13, 2019. "The takeaway, at least for some TV insiders, is that Carlson was shoved— hard—by Fox management," Stelter wrote in Vanity Fair.
☆ Tucker Carlson found out Fox News ouster while he and his staff were preparing Monday's show: reports
  + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( Lauren Steussy | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Tucker Carlson was abruptly dropped by Fox News on Monday. Carlson's staff was prepping for the day's show, fellow former Fox News host Bill O'Reilly said. After a decade-plus career at the network, Tucker Carlson was let go just 10 minutes before Fox News released a statement announcing his departure, sources told The Wall Street Journal. The producers of "Tucker Carlson Tonight" were still planning the evening's broadcast, fellow former Fox News host Bill O'Reilly said Monday on his show "No Spin News." "They were in the middle of that," O'Reilly said of the planning, and, "boom: Tucker Carlson is history at the Fox News Channel.
☆ The Calculus Behind Firing Tucker Carlson
  + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( Andrew Ross Sorkin | Ravi Mattu | Sarah Kessler | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Dropping anchorsFox News’s firing of Tucker Carlson, the most popular prime-time host in cable news, sent shock waves through the media and political spheres yesterday. Few had thought that repercussions from Fox’s $788 million defamation settlement with Dominion Voting Systems would reach Mr. Carlson, who commanded a following of millions and has the ear of Donald Trump. But Fox and Rupert Murdoch, who are used to courting controversy and legal settlements as the costs of doing business, may be betting that getting rid of Mr. Carlson is the smarter financial move. Since gaining his prime-time show in 2017, Mr. Carlson became the brightest star in the Fox News orbit, with “Tucker Carlson Tonight” averaging over three million viewers every night. (Shares in Fox Corporation fell 3 percent yesterday — more than they did after the company settled with Dominion last week.)
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