On Monday, Fox News announced it had, quote, “agreed to part ways” with its most popular host. It remains unclear why Fox fired Carlson, who is known for promoting far-right and white nationalist ideas and guests. Over the years, Carlson embraced the racist “great replacement” theory and other anti-immigrant views, compared the January 6th insurrectionists to “sightseers” who were “peaceful,” “orderly” and “meek.” Carlson also recently called on Texas Governor Greg Abbott to pardon a man who was just convicted of murdering a Black Lives Matter activist.
Tucker Carlson’s firing came a week after Fox agreed to pay $787 million in the largest media defamation suit in this country to settle a suit by Dominion Voting Systems for airing false claims about the 2020 election. Emails and texts released as part of the lawsuit show Carlson repeatedly criticized Fox management, as well as Donald Trump, who he privately described as “a demonic force, a destroyer.” Other messages showed Carlson privately did not believe Trump’s lies about the election, but he never told his audience this. Carlson was also named in a new lawsuit filed by former Fox News produce Abby Grossberg, who has described a culture of sexual harassment and general misogyny at the network.
Carlson’s top producer, Justin Wells, was also fired Monday. In 2017, Blake Neff, one of Carlson’s top writers on the show, resigned after it was revealed he had
— source democracynow.org | Apr 25, 2023