The case that Rupert Murdoch is all that’s stopping Fox News from going full nutjob.
But while all of these tidbits certainly make the case that Carlson was a bad colleague and a worse journalist, none of them, to my mind, convincingly explain his dismissal. The network is not generally in the habit of dumping its stars for having bad takes; indeed, having bad takes is whatsomeone a star at Fox News.
This speech, Sherman wrote, annoyed Murdoch in part because it echoed some themes he had heard and disliked during his recent whirlwind two-week engagement to a very religious Carlson fan named Ann Lesley Smith. In March, Sherman reported, the mogul had became irritated by his fiancée’s “end-times worldview,” by the fact that she had called Carlson “a messenger from God,” and by her decision to deliver an impromptu Bible reading during a meal at which all three were present.
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