“Why Did Fox News Fire Tucker Carlson?”
John Bogley
@JohnBogleyDC
Tucker was fired for creating an "antisemitic work environment".
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Hundreds of pages of emails and text messages from within Fox were published in Dominion’s pre-trial legal filings. But there is a huge number of other pages that remain out of public view. The redactions were voluminous. Only three groups of people know what those pages contain: Dominion’s lawyers, Fox’s top executives, and obviously the people who were sending and receiving the messages. So what was Carlson saying about, say, Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott? What was he texting about the Murdochs? We don’t know. We may never know.
The Los Angeles Times reports, however, that Grossberg’s claims, rather than the Dominion revelations, were the main factor in Carlson’s termination. Per the Times , it was Rupert Murdoch himself who made the call to axe Carlson:
People familiar with the situation who were not authorized to comment publicly said the decision to fire Carlson came straight from Fox Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch with input from board members and other Fox Corp. executives.
Carlson’s exit is related to the discrimination lawsuit filed by Abby Grossberg , the producer fired by the network last month, the sources said.
Murdoch also was said to be concerned about Carlson’s coverage of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. The host has promoted the conspiracy theory that it was provoked by government agents.
In a pair of lawsuits against Fox News, Grossberg alleged that the network’s lawyers had attempted to make her one of the scapegoats for the Dominion case and claimed widespread misogyny and discrimination at the company, detailing specific allegations against Carlson’s team.
In her federal court filing , Grossberg described the work environment of Carlson’s show as one that “subjugates women based on vile sexist stereotypes” as well as “typecasts religious minorities and belittles their traditions.”
On Grossberg’s second day of work, Justin Wells, a senior producer, asked her if her previous boss, Maria Bartiromo, had ever had sex with Kevin McCarthy, the Republican House Speaker. Grossberg said her colleagues joked about the attractiveness of women politicians and, in one instance, recounted hearing one co-worker call a Republican congresswoman “fat” and implied she only got her job by sleeping with her predecessor.
Grossberg alleges she was personally discriminated against for being Jewish and witnessed offensive remarks about Jewish people. She recalls Alexander McCaskill, her direct supervisor at the time, singling out an Israeli colleague, admonishing him to other co-workers for taking time off for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. When that same employee visited a Jewish bakery for lunch, McCaskill joked that the man went to “the Jew bakery” and “to see his people.”
Wells was terminated alongside Carlson, Semafor reports.
In a statement responding to Carlson’s firing, Grossberg called the move
“a step towards accountability for the election lies and baseless conspiracy theories spread by Fox News, as well as for the abuse and harassment I endured.”
Let the recriminations begin.
You know the Nutters are going to go so far off topic on this one it won't be funny, John...
New York Daily News
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A former Fox News producer has accused Tucker Carlson of overseeing a hostile work environment, where antisemitic banter and chauvinism were commonplace.
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Jonathan Greenblatt
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It's about time. For far too long, Tucker Carlson has used his primetime show to spew antisemitic, racist, xenophobic and anti-LGBTQ hate to millions.
@ADL
has long called for his firing for this and many other offenses, including spreading the Great Replacement Theory.
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Because Tucker is worthless, lying, bottom feeder.
That about covers it.
Nary a seed by NT's 'patriots' today and that suggests a dumpster full of dead squirrels is about to split its sides. Oozeday is coming.
Nah, like usual a large majority of seeds on the front page are published by our resident liberal/progressive hatetriots.
Nothing new to see here ...... SOP for NT
Meh, corporate life goes on .....
Not surprising. But he will land on his feet somewhere.
But just looking at the female on-air staff everyone knows Fox is known as having the "Best blond-haired blue eyed big-boobed bimbos in the business". Their "exotics" are the brunettes and the Spanish women. Seriously, that's what they were / are called and how they're treated. Sad but not a shocker.
If I ever meet any current / former employees I would have a conversation with them that goes like this:
"Hello. Was it worth it? Did you get enough money? Did you? I mean, did you really get enough cash and was it really, really worth giving up?"
What? Get enough money for what? Give up what?
"Your self-respect, dignity, morality and soul"