Tag: Fox News

NY Times Publisher, Ironically, Demands Return to Journalistic Independence

Commentary On the same day the Durham report was released, revealing there was never any substance behind the Trump-Russia collusion story despite the media obsessing over it for two years, New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger ironically wrote about the importance of an unbiased press. In his piece in the Columbia Journalism Review, he strongly…


Fox News Is Struggling: Is Tucker Carlson’s Exit the Beginning of the End?

With Tucker Carlson’s departure from Fox News, what will become of the network? Fox’s numbers have dipped significantly since Carlson left, not just in his former timeslot but in every primetime hour. The 25–54 age viewership has declined by over 60 percent. This means that over half of younger people are no longer watching Fox…


Tucker Carlson Announcement Video Draws Massive Numbers

Tucker Carlson’s announcement that he would be bringing his “same show” to Twitter drew more than 126 million impressions this week, signaling there is widespread interest in a program with the former Fox News host hasn’t waned. Of that figure, some 26.6 million watched the clip on Twitter. In the video, Carlson said that he…


Fox News Sued for Defamation by Biden’s Former Disinformation Chief

A former Biden administration official who oversaw a federal initiative against alleged disinformation filed a civil lawsuit against Fox News on Wednesday, alleging that the news outlet defamed her and damaged her career. Nina Jankowicz, former head of the now-disbanded Disinformation Governance Board, alleged in a complaint filed Wednesday that Fox News, via figures like…


Fox News Exec Reveals One Reason Why Tucker Carlson May Have Left

A Fox News executive revealed what may have been a key reason for Tucker Carlson’s sudden departure last month: ad sales. In an interview this week with Variety magazine, Fox News Vice President for Advertising Sales Jeff Collins said that big-name corporate advertisers have returned to Fox News’ 8 p.m. ET timeslot after Carlson departed….


Elon Musk Invites Don Lemon to Create Show on Twitter

In the wake of Tucker Carlson’s viral announcement saying he’ll be bringing his top-rated show to Twitter, the social media’s CEO, Elon Musk, called on former CNN host Don Lemon to consider doing the same. Musk, an industrialist who purchased the social media platform last year, commented Wednesday on Lemon’s weeks-old cryptic Twitter statement in…


Republican Lawmakers Cheer Tucker Carlson’s New Show on Twitter

There is happiness, and some gloating, among GOP lawmakers and conservative media commentators that Tucker Carlson, recently fired by Fox News, is back and will soon launch a show on a media platform that not long ago was the bane of many of the same people now celebrating the news.  Carlson’s show, “Tucker Carlson Tonight,”…


Frank Gaffney Says Fox News ‘Willing to Pay Handsomely’ to Keep Tucker Carlson Off the Air

Fox News may be willing to keep paying Carlson millions of dollars to keep him under contract despite taking him off the air, at least according to foreign policy analyst and political commentator Frank Gaffney. “It seems as though Tucker is still under some constraints from Fox, at least as best I can tell for…


Fox News CEO Says There’s ‘No Change’ After Tucker Carlson Exit

Fox Corporation CEO Lachlan Murdoch said there will be no change in the firm’s strategy after the surprise exit of its top-rated host Tucker Carlson two weeks ago. When asked during an earnings call on Tuesday about whether the network would shift its programming after Carslon’s departure, Murdoch responded: “There is no change to our programming…


IN-DEPTH: What Do the CRTC’s Public Consultations on Banning Fox News Entail?

The fact that Canada’s broadcast regulator is holding public consultations on whether to ban Fox News, after receiving a complaint from an LGBTQ rights advocacy organization, is highly unusual, given that only one channel has been removed in recent years from the list of approved foreign broadcasters on Canadian cable television. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)…