DIRS.INFO The most relevant business & tech news

☆ Tucker Carlson’s Trump Interview Starts Tough Fight to Take on Fox and Cable News
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Amol Sharma | Isabella Simonetti | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. Distribution and use of this material are governed by our Subscriber Agreement and by copyright law. For non-personal use or to order multiple copies, please contact Dow Jones Reprints at 1-800-843-0008 or visit www.djreprints.com. https://www.wsj.com/business/media/trump-carlson-interview-twitter-x-5a8187fd

Persons: Dow Jones, carlson

Persons: Dow Jones, tucker, carlson

☆ New poll reveals the sheer extent to which Fox News viewers remain loyal to Trump
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-31 | by ( Oliver Darcy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Meanwhile, 83% of Fox News-watching respondents believe that after the 2020 election, Trump “was just exercising his right to contest the” results. And, perhaps most importantly, 85% of Republican-leaning poll participants who primarily watch Fox News say the GOP needs to “stand behind” Trump. The remarkable data underscores the grip that Trump continues to exert over the influential right-wing network’s audience. Even as he faces mounting legal problems, including potential charges stemming from his post-2020 election actions, Trump still commands the loyalty of the Fox News audience. “But,” Sargent wrote, “the role of Fox News and right-wing media in this disaster for democracy seems painfully clear.”

Persons: Donald Trump’s, jolt, Trump, Trump “, ” Trump, “, Rupert Murdoch’s, Tucker, Trump sycophants, Murdoch, bode, Greg Sargent, thrall, ” Sargent Organizations: CNN, The Fox News, The New York Times, Siena College, Fox News, Republican, Fox, Republicans, Trump, GOP, Republican Party

☆ Tucker Carlson’s Fox Exit Helps Boost Newsmax Ratings
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( Isabella Simonetti | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. Distribution and use of this material are governed by our Subscriber Agreement and by copyright law. For non-personal use or to order multiple copies, please contact Dow Jones Reprints at 1-800-843-0008 or visit www.djreprints.com. https://www.wsj.com/articles/tucker-carlsons-fox-exit-helps-boost-newsmax-ratings-8aed0b57

Persons: Dow Jones, tucker

☆ Geraldo Rivera says he quit Fox News after being fired from ‘The Five’
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-29 | by ( Liam Reilly | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —Television veteran Geraldo Rivera announced on Thursday that he was leaving Fox News after being fired from the program “The Five.”“I’m not going to be on ‘The Five,’” Rivera said of the right-wing network’s 5 p.m. talk show in a video posted to Twitter. “I’ve been fired from ‘The Five.’”“And, as a result of that, I quit Fox,” Rivera said in the video filmed from a boat off Long Island’s Jones Beach. A Fox News spokesperson did not immediately respond to a CNN request for comment. Rivera, who has been with the right-wing network since 2001, said he will “have more to say” about his decision during the “Fox and Friends” program on Friday morning. But Rivera said at the time he would remain with the network as correspondent at large.

Persons: Geraldo Rivera, “ I’m, ’ ” Rivera, “ I’ve, Fox, ” Rivera, Rivera, Greg Gutfeld, Tucker Carlson’s, host’s, ” Organizations: CNN — Television, Fox News, Twitter, Fox, CNN, Capitol

☆ Jesse Watters to Fill Tucker Carlson’s Old Slot as Fox Shuffles Prime-Time Lineup
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-26 | by ( Jeremy W. Peters | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Fox News shook up its prime-time lineup on Monday in the first major reorganization to its most popular programming since the beginning of the Trump administration. The moves include permanently filling the 8 p.m. slot that has been vacant since the network canceled Tucker Carlson’s show in April. Mr. Gutfeld’s show will now be at 10 p.m.Laura Ingraham, who has hosted a 10 p.m. program since 2017, will move to 7 p.m., occupying the hour that Mr. Watters has been hosting. Sean Hannity, a mainstay at Fox News since its early days, will remain in his 9 p.m. slot. Fox’s prime time ratings have consistently been the highest in cable news but have fallen off by roughly one-third since the network took Mr. Carlson off the air.

Persons: Trump, Tucker, Jesse Watters, Greg Gutfeld, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Gutfeld’s, Laura Ingraham, Watters, Sean Hannity, Carlson Organizations: Fox News

☆ Two Former Tucker Carlson Producers Exit Fox News
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-16 | by ( Katie Robertson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Two top producers for Tucker Carlson’s former show have left Fox News, in the latest fallout from the network’s benching of Mr. Carlson. Alexander McCaskill, a senior producer and formerly the managing editor of “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” wrote on Instagram that his last day at the network was Thursday. Thomas Fox, who was a senior editorial producer on that show, also departed this week, according to two people with knowledge of the moves. One of the people said Mr. McCaskill and Mr. Fox had been in discussions to leave the network before Tuesday, when a chyron that appeared on Fox News called President Biden a “wannabe dictator.”In a video posted to Twitter on Thursday, Mr. Carlson said the chyron had been posted by a producer at the network who had since left. While he did not identify Mr. McCaskill by name, Mr. Carlson listed facts about the person, such as his length of time at the network, that matched Mr. McCaskill.

Persons: Tucker Carlson’s, Carlson, Alexander McCaskill, “ Tucker Carlson, ”, Instagram, Thomas Fox, McCaskill, Fox, Biden Organizations: Fox News, Twitter

☆ The Paranoid Style in Tucker Carlson’s Home Office
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( James Poniewozik | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Fox has ideology, of course (which has cycled through different flavors of conservatism over the decades), but it also has an aesthetic. Fox News is designed to look like it is broadcasting from the top of the world; “Tucker on Twitter” looks not unlike something livestreamed after the apocalypse. Carlson could be different; Fox News has yet to recover in the prime-time ratings from his sudden departure. But Carlson, for all his anti-elite posturing, is wholly a creature of legacy TV, having hosted shows on Fox, CNN and MSNBC. They say you’re wrong, you’re crazy, you’re a racist.

Persons: Fox, “ Tucker, Bill O’Reilly, Glenn Beck —, Carlson, ”, Facebook proselytizer Organizations: Fox News, Twitter, Fox, CNN, MSNBC, Facebook Locations: Maine, Russia, Ukrainian

☆ Fact Check-Fox News has not fired Laura Ingraham
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-26 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Fox News has not fired host Laura Ingraham, a spokesperson for the network said, calling May 2023 posts on social media that made the claim “false.”Users have shared posts that read: “BREAKING: Laura Ingraham got FIRED from her nightly show on Fox.”Examples can be seen (here), (here), (here). Ingraham continues to host her show, with transcripts of broadcasts as recent as May 25 available on the Fox News website (here). The claims arose in the context of reports (here), (here) that major changes would take place at Fox News after host Tucker Carlson’s exit in April (here). Ingraham joined Fox News in 2007 and has hosted “The Ingraham Angle” since October 2017 (here). A Fox News spokesperson said in May 2023 that Ingraham continues to work at the network.

☆ Tucker Carlson’s Twitter Show Complicates Elon Musk’s Bid to Win Back Advertisers
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-11 | by ( Suzanne Vranica | Patience Haggin | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson calls the social-media platform the ‘last big one’ that allows free speech. Photo: Tucker CarlsonTucker Carlson ’s announcement that he is moving to Twitter isn’t getting an enthusiastic reception on Madison Avenue, as many advertisers are already skittish about spending on the Elon Musk-owned social-media platform. Mr. Carlson said Tuesday that he is launching a show on Twitter, just weeks after Fox News canceled his nightly telecast. Mr. Carlson was one of Fox’s most popular anchors, but his controversial brand of programming repelled blue-chip advertisers, and he was the target of organized advertiser boycotts.

☆ Opinion | Tucker Carlson’s Dark and Malign Influence Over the Christian Right
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-07 | by ( David French | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

As a much younger Christian, I’d read stories of unholy violence and hatred unleashed in Jesus’ name in religious conflicts of even the recent past and think, “Thank God that’s over.” I felt comfortable in my Christian conservatism. After all, isn’t “love your enemies” a core Christian command? If you infuse an issue or set of issues with religious intensity but drain a movement of religious virtue, then profound religious conflict — including violent conflict — is the inevitable result. But let’s turn the question around — under what circumstances would you actually vote for your polar political opposite? Honestly exploring that question can perhaps help you sympathize with Republican Trump voters.

☆ Mortgage Fees, (Seriously), Spurred Outrage on TikTok. Here’s Why.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-07 | by ( Tara Siegel Bernard | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Mortgage fees usually induce yawns and glazed-over eyes. But when word began circulating last month that updated pricing would cost some home buyers more, it resulted in viral TikTok videos with thousands of outraged comments misinterpreting the new rules. Many critics raised similar questions: Why were some borrowers with lower credit scores and down payments receiving improved pricing on their mortgage rates, while others with high credit scores and larger down payments were being charged more? To clear up any confusion, the federal regulator behind the new pricing had to issue a statement: Sparkling credit still pays. “You still get a better rate and loan pricing if you make a higher down payment and have better credit,” said Bob Broeksmit, president and chief executive of the Mortgage Bankers Association, an industry trade group.

☆ Tucker Carlson’s Code of Whiteness
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( A.O. Scott | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

At stake is not the life or safety of the anonymous “Antifa kid,” but rather Carlson’s own perception of himself. That phrase, a syntactic echo of “it’s not how white men fight,” establishes the stakes, which are not so much Carlson’s ethical probity as his racial superiority. “The Antifa creep is a human being,” he writes. I should be bothered by it.” The “shoulds” indicate that Carlson isn’t really bothered — is still actually gloating — but is aware that this reaction poses a problem. If he takes pleasure in watching an Antifa creep get pounded, that makes him as bad as the Antifa creep.

☆ Tucker Carlson’s racist text message shouldn’t be surprising: Analysis
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( Oliver Darcy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

New York CNN —Tucker Carlson sent a racist text message that “set off a panic at the highest levels of Fox” and ultimately led to his firing, The New York Times reported Tuesday. The toxic stream of hate that flowed each night from “Tucker Carlson Tonight” made the program anathema to advertisers, with blue chip companies boycotting the show. On Tuesday, after The Times reported on Carlson’s racist text message, ADL head Jonathan Greenblatt said, “What’s not news is the fact that Tucker Carlson is a white nationalist. Neff’s termination came after CNN reported that he had been secretly posting racist and sexist remarks in an online forum. A spokesperson for Fox declined to comment on the January 2021 text message.

☆ Opinion | Tucker Carlson’s Text, and ‘an Internal Struggle With Morality’
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

To the Editor:Re “The Text That Got Carlson Dismissed” (Business, May 3):How ironic that a text that included an unapologetic racist’s epiphany as to our common humanity was one of the causes for his firing. The trigger was Tucker Carlson’s comment that “it’s not how white men fight,” but his acknowledgment and repudiation of his own lust for the Trump mob to kill the “Antifa kid” showed an honesty and reflection absent among his fellow TV personalities on Fox. Michael K. CantwellDelray Beach, Fla.To the Editor:Your article correctly emphasized the racism inherent in the text message but completely failed to emphasize the human being who tried to identify with the victim and realized that the lust for violence was worth questioning. Did you decide that given his history, Tucker Carlson does not deserve any recognition for what was clearly an internal struggle with morality? If so, you may be right, but you have also done a significant disservice by not recognizing that very act as essential to our common survival.

☆ Opinion | How Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson Upended the G.O.P. Foreign Policy Apparatus
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( Rosie Gray | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Mr. Trump has a talent for the populist art of reflecting supporters’ instincts, feeding off them and intensifying them. Mr. DeSantis, instead of intuiting this potential, merely mirrored a position to an audience already primed to accept it. Mr. Trump, with his bloodhound’s nose for potential weakness in his competition, dismissed Mr. DeSantis as a copycat who is merely “following” him. “Whatever I want, he wants,” Mr. Trump said in March after Mr. DeSantis’s initial statement on Ukraine. Ms. Haley, Mr. Trump’s former ambassador to the U.N., who is herself running for president this cycle, also accused Mr. DeSantis of “copying” Mr. Trump.

☆ Fact Check-Purported clip of NYC ‘parade’ for Tucker Carlson’s Fox News exit is almost two years-old
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-02 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

It is not related to Tucker Carlson exiting Fox News, as claimed on social media. “NYC is going nuts over Tucker Carlson news,” reads a superimposed text in the circulating clip, which appears to have originated on TikTok. It is also viewable on Facebook (here)Reuters reported on April 24 that former Fox News star Tucker Carlson had left the network, days after Fox Corp settled a defamation lawsuit in which Carlson had a key role (here). The TikTok user, whose handle is visible in the video “@tiktalkingschmidt" posted the content with the Carlson caption on April 24. This video predates Tucker Carlson’s exit of Fox.

☆ Opinion: From Woody Woodpecker to Mickey Mouse
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-30 | by ( Richard Galant | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

We’re looking back at the strongest, smartest opinion takes of the week from CNN and other outlets. The term is credited to animator Walter Lantz, the creator of Woody Woodpecker. “While I would love to see a progressive in the White House, I am terrified of another Donald Trump presidency. Mickey Mouse warBill Bramhall/Tribune Content Agency“President Franklin Roosevelt launched a war against the Great Depression,” noted Julian Zelizer. “Women still have less access to the internet, with men being 21% more likely to be online than women globally.

☆ Tucker Carlson’s Private Messages Were a Major Factor in His Ouster
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Juul’s Fall From $38 Billion Startup to Near-Bankruptcy: What Went Wrong Juul sparked a vaping craze when it launched, making it one of the most valuable startups in 2018. Five years later, its value has gone up in smoke. WSJ explains Juul’s collapse and what’s next for the e-cigarette company. Illustration: Nayon Cho

☆ Newsmax Sees a Ratings Boost After Carlson’s Exit at Fox
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Michael M. Grynbaum | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Newsmax, the niche conservative news channel that has long played David to Fox News’s Goliath, has seized on Tucker Carlson’s shock dismissal from its rival network and declared itself the true TV home for right-wing Americans. Viewership of Newsmax remains far below that of Fox News. But its audience at certain hours has doubled, and in some time slots tripled, in the immediate aftermath of Mr. Carlson’s exit — an abrupt spike that has turned heads in conservative circles and the cable news industry. On Monday evening, Eric Bolling’s 8 p.m. Newsmax program drew 531,000 viewers, according to Nielsen. On Tuesday, Mr. Bolling’s audience grew to 562,000 viewers, equal to about 80 percent of Anderson Cooper’s CNN viewership that evening.

☆ Fact Check-Fabricated CNN headline on Tucker Carlson’s exit from Fox News shared online
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

(Advisory: Please note that this article contains sensitive content)An image purporting to show a headline published by CNN reporting that former Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson committed suicide following his exit from the network is fabricated. CNN confirmed to Reuters that the article was fake. Carlson left Fox News on April 24, days after parent company Fox Corp settled a defamation lawsuit by Dominion Voting Systems for $787.5 million (here). In the fabricated posts, the CNN masthead can be viewed across the top of the screenshot, with a headline that reads: “Former Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson has died from suicide.” An example of the screenshot can be viewed (archive.is/wip/2cOrO). CNN did not publish this article about Tucker Carlson.

Several weeks ago, as Fox News lawyers prepared for a courtroom showdown with Dominion Voting Systems, they presented Tucker Carlson with what they thought was good news: They had persuaded the court to redact from a legal filing the time he called a senior Fox News executive the c-word, according to people familiar with the matter. Mr. Carlson, Fox News’s most-watched prime-time host, wasn’t impressed. He told his colleagues that he wanted the world to know what he had said about the executive in a private message, the people said. Mr. Carlson said comments he made about former President Donald Trump—“I hate him passionately”—that were in the court documents were said during a momentary spasm of anger, while his dislike of this executive was deep and enduring.

Photo: Richard Drew/Associated PressTucker Carlson still has plenty of opportunities in broadcasting despite his ouster from Fox News, media observers said, though history shows that departing star anchors have struggled to regain the influence and reach that they enjoyed at the conservative news network. “Tucker will have options, whether they’re entrepreneurial as he was before he came to Fox, or more traditional outlets,” Jonathan Klein , former president of CNN US, said in an interview. However, he “probably won’t reach the same size audience and he won’t have the same influence that he had.”

☆ Tucker Carlson’s departure won’t change Fox News
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( Allison Morrow | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

But if history is any guide, there’s one thing we can count on: Cutting Tucker Carlson loose is not a sign that Fox is ready to change its ways. He regularly brought fringe, racist talking points such as the “great replacement” conspiracy theory into the mainstream. The content on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” made “The O’Reilly Factor” look like “Leave It to Beaver.”That strategy wasn’t a new one for Fox. “There will be a new Tucker Carlson, and it’s a good bet he or she will be even worse,” wrote David A. Graham in The Atlantic. Tucker Carlson, left, and former President Donald Trump, talk while watching golf.

☆ Opinion | Tucker Carlson’s Firing by Fox News
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

To the Editor:Re “Fox News Ousts Carlson, a Voice of the Far Right” (front page, April 25):Tucker Carlson’s firing by Fox News is being covered as big news (everywhere except, of course, at Fox News). The coverage includes speculation about whether the firing heralds a change of direction for Fox News away from peddling sensationalist conspiracy theories to its primary audience. Fox News’s business model involves presenting sensationalist, conspiracy-laden fodder to appeal to America’s angry, frightened right wing. This has been so whether the characters have been named Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly or Tucker Carlson. The actor Tucker Carlson has been fired by Fox News, but nobody should assume that Fox News has abandoned the character that he played on TV.

Search resuls for: "Tucker Carlson’s"

25 mentions found