It’s not precisely clear what’s going to occur with Tucker Carlson’s new present. It’s potential that Fox may sue him for his breach of contract. It’s potential they received’t.
As beforehand said, Carlson is an immensely well-liked determine. Disaffection with mainstream and legacy media is at an all time high, and audiences are casting about for various sources of knowledge. Tucker, sadly, is a type of various sources, and he has made a reputation for himself by drawing a giant, brassy distinction between the extremely flawed community information media of our occasions and his personal, free-wheeling model of extremely editorialized, news-adjacent content material.
However Carlson isn’t precisely an antidote to the issues of the mainstream media—hell, he’s a product of it. He’s additionally much less a journalist than he’s a commentator, which implies he’s mainly only a man with a megaphone and a viewpoint. Whether or not you agree or disagree with these views, they’ll’t substitute literal precise journalists, who dig up tales and report the information.
Sadly, the media that Carlson is perpetually at warfare with is in bother—as may be seen by the Chris Licht-related drama over at CNN, the continued disaster at Fox, and MSNBC’s personal uneven ratings. Individuals clearly want a greater mannequin of reports than the one they’re getting however, for the foreseeable future, they’re going to get Carleson—whether or not they prefer it or not.
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