Tucker Carlson, who previously hosted a popular primetime program on Fox News, said that the cable news business is “controlled” and that he believes it “has a limited future.”
“I really do think the cable news business has a limited future,” Carlson opined two weeks after his show was suddenly dropped from the Fox News Channel lineup, according to Chadwick Moore, author of the upcoming book “Tucker.”
“It’s too obviously controlled. It’s like Google — it’s just become too clear that there’s a certain selection of stories that are allowed, and a very thick file of stories that are not allowed. And I think people have come to understand that, and it’s just not sustainable,” Carlson said, according to Moore.
“I see these clips of people on podcasts or just taking video of themselves on Twitter, and you can tell when someone’s really telling the whole truth,” Carlson said. “It’s obvious right away. Maybe I don’t agree with the person, but I can see this person is not lying, he’s saying what he really thinks, and that’s immediately perceptible. You can tell when someone’s lying to you or when someone’s shading the truth or trying to spin you. And there’s a lot of artifice in television.”
Carlson launched a new show on Twitter last week. The tweet containing the first episode has amassed a whopping 115 million views so far, while the tweet containing the second episode has surpassed 55 million views.
Fox News reportedly sent the media personality a cease-and-desist letter.
“Doubling down on the most catastrophic programming decision in the history of the cable news industry, Fox is now demanding that Tucker Carlson be silent until after the 2024 election,” Harmeet Dhillon, who is involved in representing Carlson, said in a statement, according to Axios. “Tucker will not be silenced by anyone … He is a singularly important voice on matters of public interest in our country, and will remain so.”
Justin Wells said in a tweet that Carlson is planning to release a new episode on Tuesday responding to the federal indictment of former President Donald Trump.
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