Fox News’ Tucker Carlson was negotiating a new contract when Murdoch fired him – live

Abby Grossberg, the former Fox News producer who is suing the network, said Tuesday that Tucker Carlson and his executive producer were responsible for making her life a “living hell” when she worked for them.

Grossberg, who was fired by Fox shortly after filing a pair of lawsuits against the network earlier this year, said during an appearance on MSNBC that Fox’s sudden firing of Carlson on Monday left her with mixed emotions.

tucker carlson tonight it is no longer Instead, Fox is keeping an interim fox news tonight with a lineup of hosts in the coveted 8:00 pm slot previously occupied by the network’s most-watched host.

Kat Abuhazaleh of Media Matters, who has owned Tucker Carlson at the right-wing media watchdog, has this guide to potential hosts for the primetime position:

Last Monday, Tucker Carlson Tonight had approximately 3.2 million viewers.

A week later, in that time slot, with Brian Kilmeade, the ratings dropped slightly, with 2.6 million viewers.

But on Newsmax, a far-right network that has a much smaller audience compared to the giant Fox, the number of viewers has tripled.

Former producer Abby Grossberg, who was fired following a lawsuit against Fox News, said she has 90 recordings from her time at the network, which she says was marked by widespread toxicity, sexism and bigotry.

She said she couldn’t say if her explosive lawsuit may have anything to do with Tucker Carlson’s firing, but said her departure shows that “when you have the truth on your side and you stand up for yourself, people will listen.”

“For now that is what I take with me,” he said.

“And make my life hell,” he told MSNBC.

His departure from the network brings some “justice,” but “it’s only partial,” he said.

An impending Delaware defamation trial and motions in a lawsuit directed at his tucker carlson tonight The workplace kicked off what would be the host’s last week on Fox News.

Meanwhile, he returned to the 8 p.m. slot each night with his angry monologues and conspiracy theories broadcast to millions of televisions across the country, characterized as a nation besieged by Democratic officials and the violent mobs under their command. tucker carlson tonight he ended up with several boxes of pizza on his desk while promoting a documentary winking at a far-right conspiracy theory that world leaders want people to eat bugs.

A day later, the question of why, exactly, Fox News fired Tucker Carlson is on everyone’s mind.

It seems Carlson doesn’t even know the answer to that question; vanity fair reports that Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott did not reveal to her the exact reason he was fired.

the independent‘s Graig Graziosi breaks down several reasons why Carlson has been too toxic to stay on the payroll:

Far-right media personalities believe that Tucker Carlson, who is at the center of costly litigation related to the network’s lies about Dominion voting systems, as well as a lawsuit by a former producer alleging widespread workplace harassment, he was too right-wing for the Murdoch family.

One America News Network manager Dan Ball said that “the new Fox” under Murdoch’s “lads” is pushing a “center, center-left agenda.”

At Newsmax, host Dan Bolling, dubbed “the king” of 8 o’clock prime time by Peter Navarro, said his network will stay “conservative.”

“We are not going to move to the center left like Fox is doing,” he said Monday.

the independentJosh Marcus charts the controversies and far-right nationalism that came to define the final years of tucker carlson tonightand the litigation that could be fueling the abrupt departure of the Fox News host:

Former Trump administration adviser Peter Navarro slammed Fox in its Newsmax competition after news of Tucker Carlson’s departure from the network broke on Monday.

He also called Carlson’s replacement for Monday’s show, Brian Kilmeade, a “never Trump sock puppet.” “

“Your dwarf feet won’t fit [Carlson’s] big shoes in this life. Cut the [Fox] cable now,” he said.

On Tuesday, she called him a “cowardly scum. “

“An honorable man would have refused to sit on [Carlson] the first night of the firing, but no, the biggest Never-Trumper in [Fox] this side of [Karl Rove] it was because of the corpse,” he wrote.