Posted on 07/15/2023 8:05:43 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I don’t know what Fox is thinking, considering how they have treated Tucker Carlson and his team. You drop your most popular host in a way that just antagonizes your viewers and shows no loyalty for all he has brought to the network.
Now, Fox is reportedly showing that same attitude toward the remaining people who had worked for Carlson but who were still working for the network until Friday.
According to Chadwick Moore, Carlson’s biographer, the remaining nine people who worked on Carlson’s show were going to be “frog marched” out of the building tonight after they finished the show on Friday. One former Carlson producer called it “Degrading!” Here’s the email that those people allegedly got:
EXCLUSIVE: @TuckerCarlson’s remaining team at Fox News (nine employees) will be frog marched out of the building tonight at 9:00pm. HR will be waiting outside the control room when they finish tonight’s show to escort the remaining producers outside. One former Carlson produce outside. One former Carlson producer called it “Degrading!” Here’s the email that was sent to them:
pic.twitter.com/kQLVhkS0KS— Chadwick Moore (@Chadwick_Moore) July 14, 2023
What’s the point in that besides trying to humiliate them? Do they think these people were going to do anything? That’s just treating your employees so poorly. Again, does Fox still want viewers? Because that’s not going to go over well with the folks who are already mad at them for cutting Tucker.
But Carlson may have the last laugh, as may the people who worked for him. We reported before that Carlson was working on the idea of starting a new media venture and now there are a lot more details.
Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson and former White House adviser Neil Patel are raising funds for a new media company that likely would use Twitter as its foundation, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.
People familiar with the matter told the Journal the new company would run on subscriptions for longer versions of the free videos Carlson has been posting on Twitter for free since he was ousted from Fox News earlier this year.
The shorter videos will still be available for free for users on Twitter and other platforms, with subscriptions required for the longer videos in their entirety, people told the Wall Street Journal. [….]
Carlson and Patel are reportedly seeking to raise hundreds of millions of dollars in funding for the company. The pair founded the conservative publication The Daily Caller in 2010 and were roommates at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn.
People familiar with the new project said Carlson’s team recently met with Twitter to talk over the endeavor, which would feature a website and mobile app and potentially air on other platforms beyond Twitter.
They’re looking to raise hundreds of millions of dollars and the word is they already have lined up some financial backers.
Fox sent Carlson a cease and desist letter, claiming he’s still under contract with them. But Carlson’s lawyer Harmeet Dhillon said he would “not be silenced by anyone.”
Tucker to Beck upon hearing about Chadwick's scoop:
"It's disgusting. You should always be loyal to people who show loyalty." https://t.co/ezXAArh70i
— Sandy 〽️ (@RightGlockMom) July 14, 2023
Carlson has already shown the power he has during his interviews with 2024 Republican candidates at the Family Leadership Summit. His interviewing them made it interesting because he was free to ask what he wanted and not hold back. I think it’s fair to say such a subscription show would be very popular and likely do better than whatever Fox might be putting out in place of Carlson. Word is also that some of the former employees would be joining Carlson in whatever he ultimately creates. So it looks like they might be better off as well.
I am totally boycotting Fox News. I don’t even watch Laura Ingraham or Steve Hilton anymore, even though I really used to like their shows.
It will be interesting to see how this all turns out once Tucker is cleared from Fox.
Probably checking to make sure all computer T and C keys were still intact.
Fox cancelled Steve Hilton's show, too.
And yes, Hilton's show was good.
Same here. Our family is totally Fox-free.
Fox? What is this you speak of? I used to see those critters in the woods.
The subscription model is a bad model. His message will only reach his most diehard supporters who are willing to pay to watch.
The advertisement model has a chance to reach everyone. Even democrats.
Fox bosses to lined up Tucker staff:
You vurr loyal to Herr Carlson. Theece eece not acceptable.
Good bye.
Yes. Remember their tails used to be put on the radio antennas of teenagers’ cars as decoration?
Rupert’s dim sons strike again, and Roger Ailes spins in his grave.
They already cancelled Steve’s show.
They got the one they wanted for the eight o clock hour!
Wow, the mockingbirds at fox must be really sore that Tucker exposed their favorite candidate, Mike Dence, as the complete deep state fraud that he is.
Just look at all the popular on-air personnel fired since Paul Ryan joined the Board. Gee, it almost looks like a Deep State agenda driven campaign to eliminate all criticism of their usurpation of America.
Steve Hilton now does limited commentary and reporting for other Fox shows.
Brian Kilmeade, who I used to enjoy, has a weekend show now called One Nation.
I tuned in last night, but could not stick with it.
Kilmeade has become a Raging Hawk on the Ukraine War.
The Republican Party is the most politically diverse coalition in the world, so I usually give a lot of latitude to Republicans I do not agree with.
Kilmeade is so over the top on the Ukraine issue, I changed the channel after a couple minutes.
Fox News, you are completely blowing it!
The Fox is dead Jim
How many producers and the like did he have?
UNPRINTABLE.
I truly enjoyed Steve Hilton’s show. I was surprised it was cancelled. He was incredibly informative. Do you know why he was cancelled?
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