Why what? Why did she get fired? If that was your question, I think it was mainly because she wanted to produce the show in her way, as she had done for almost twenty years. Barbara used to be an Anchorwoman on TV. She knows the media backwards and forwards, but still enjoyed it. She is a superb interviewer. She has often said, “I don’t like shows with a split screen mentality; one side screaming and hollering at the other side doing the same thing. In many ways, Barbara is the Thinking Conservative’s Conservative WITHOUT being boring in any way. Not an easy task.
That piece - why she was fired, even speculatively - was critical for understanding the vanity.