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It’s not precisely clear what’s going to occur with Tucker Carlson’s new present. It’s attainable that Fox might sue him for his breach of contract. It’s attainable they gained’t.
As beforehand acknowledged, Carlson is an immensely fashionable determine. Disaffection with mainstream and legacy media is at an all time excessive, and audiences are casting about for various sources of knowledge. Tucker, sadly, is a kind of various sources, and he has made a reputation for himself by drawing an enormous, brassy distinction between the extremely flawed community information media of our occasions and his personal, free-wheeling model of extremely editorialized, news-adjacent content material.
However Carlson isn’t precisely an antidote to the issues of the mainstream media—hell, he’s a product of it. He’s additionally much less a journalist than he’s a commentator, which implies he’s mainly only a man with a megaphone and a viewpoint. Whether or not you agree or disagree with these views, they will’t exchange literal precise journalists, who dig up tales and report the information.
Sadly, the media that Carlson is perpetually at battle with is in hassle—as might be seen by the Chris Licht-related drama over at CNN, the continuing disaster at Fox, and MSNBC’s personal uneven scores. Individuals clearly want a greater mannequin of stories than the one they’re getting however, for the foreseeable future, they’re going to get Carleson—whether or not they prefer it or not.