Before ousting Tucker Carlson, Fox News had twice fired popular hosts — and recovered better than the stars it cut loose. Fox’s dismissals of Glenn Beck in 2011 and Bill O’Reilly in 2017 offer lessons in what the post-Carlson fallout might be.
, where he predicted the U.S. would be at war with Russia, China and Iraq by 2025.
Carlson was the person there who best excelled at exciting the base of the Republican Party, she said. Smerconish noticed the number of callers to his own talk show who said they would miss Carlson’s ability to challenge groupthink. “It’s curious news,” Lavrov said. “What is this related to? One can only guess, but clearly, the wealth of views in the American information space has suffered as a result.”
Fox hasn’t discussed its reasons for cutting ties with Carlson. But as the Dominion case illustrated, the spread of conspiracy theories has made Fox legally vulnerable. A new host who reflects the Fox audience’s conservative philosophy but is less controversial could also be more popular with advertisers and thus more lucrative.
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