With the departures of cable TV stars Tucker Carlson and Don Lemon, surprisingly announced on the same day, we can see how birds of a feather can get clobbered together, writes Clarence Page.
Tucker Carlson during 2022 Fox Nation Patriot Awards at Hard Rock Live at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood on Nov. 17, 2022, in Hollywood, Florida.
Neither statement gave an explanation for the sudden breakup, although it came after Lemon had been mired in a string of controversies in recent months, including accusations of making offensive on-air comments about women and of mistreating female co-workers off-camera. Why? Fox didn’t explain, but it appeared to be more than coincidental that a few days earlier Fox News and Dominion Voting Systems reached a $787.5 million settlement, acknowledging that the network ran false claims about election fraud during the 2020 election and its aftermath.
Oh, yeah? What about the long list of emails, text messages and other evidence that shows Carlson and others at the network knew they were peddling — and amplifying — lies to their audience? But I suspect the success of Fox will be imitated and possibly duplicated by other networks yet to come. Fox is a modern version of the age-old right-wing radio that served as a megaphone for populist outrage in America during the early days of broadcasting.
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