Icarus27k Posted September 15, 2023 Share Posted September 15, 2023 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1pooh4u Posted September 21, 2023 Author Share Posted September 21, 2023 Rupert Murdoch gave control of Fox to his son Lachlan. They say he’s more to the right than his father. https://amp.theguardian.com/media/live/2023/sep/21/rupert-murdoch-fox-news-steps-down-chairman-lachlan-latest 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katt_goddess Posted September 21, 2023 Share Posted September 21, 2023 4 hours ago, 1pooh4u said: Rupert Murdoch gave control of Fox to his son Lachlan. They say he’s more to the right than his father. https://amp.theguardian.com/media/live/2023/sep/21/rupert-murdoch-fox-news-steps-down-chairman-lachlan-latest The way they are going, they won't have any money to keep being public assholes. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman Posted September 22, 2023 Share Posted September 22, 2023 Because we needed a sequel series to Succession already. 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raptorpat Posted November 2, 2023 Share Posted November 2, 2023 Quote Think, for just a moment, about the worst relationship in your past—and why it ended. Odds are, there wasn’t just one reason, it wasn’t one thing, it was everything: a book’s worth of fights and slights and resentments and grievances. Maybe there was a final indignity—an affair, a betrayal, the discovery of a derogatory text—but even if one party was blindsided, the other could list a dozen long-gestating reasons for the breakup. That’s why Fox dropped Carlson. It wasn’t one thing. It was everything. Yes, he was in the sights of the Fox board. Yes, he was under scrutiny for his “cunt” texts. Yes, his “white men fight” message made matters worse. Yes, his show’s climate was so hostile that Grossberg had standing to sue. But there was so much more: Carlson repulsed large swaths of the company he worked for. He created internal strife with his conspiratorial commentaries. He exposed Fox to defamation suits from the likes of Ray Epps. He offended key executives and seemed to take delight in doing so, to the point that managers believed he broke rules and norms just to show he could. He strained friendships, as Rupert’s and Lachlan’s chums repeatedly complained to them about his poisonous rhetoric. He triggered so many ad boycotts and turned off so many advertisers that his time slot was far less profitable for Fox than it should have been. And he committed the cardinal Fox sin of acting like he was bigger than the network he was on. It was a tale as old as TV. Stardom is a potent and often destructive drug. Icarus flew too close to the sun; he got his wings melted. Carlson flapped away, higher and higher, until one day the Murdochs just couldn’t tolerate his flapping anymore. “He got too big for his boots,” Rupert told at least one confidant. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/10/tucker-carlsons-ugly-exit-from-fox-news 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sieg67 Posted November 4, 2023 Share Posted November 4, 2023 I spotted a sign thanking Carlson for his service shortly after his getting canned. Sometimes I hate where I live. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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