Tucker Carlson ousted at Fox News following network's $787 million settlement
Tucker Carlson ousted from Fox News following the network's $787 million settlement
Fox News announced that prime-time personality Tucker Carlson is departing the network on Monday in a terse four-sentence statement.
"FOX News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways," the network said in a statement made public by a representative. "We thank him for his service to the network both as a host and, before that, a contributor."
According to Fox, Carlson will stop hosting his program on Friday, April 21. A source with information informed NPR that Lachlan Murdoch and Suzanne Scott, the respective CEOs of Fox News and its parent company Fox Corp., had decided on Carlson's destiny on Friday.
Nevertheless, the network continued to promote an
interview between Carlson and presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy that was
scheduled to broadcast later that night even after Fox issued its statement on
Monday morning. In his final words on Friday's show, Carlson wished his
audience the "best weekend" and informed them that he would return on
Monday. He did not answer NPR's request for comment. The firing of Fox's top opinion anchor comes less than a
week after Fox paid more vermillion to resolve a massive defamation
lawsuit brought by an election technology business. Dominion Voting Systems
filed a lawsuit in response to videos propagating false claims that election
fraud cost then-President Donald Trump the 2020 election. Carlson was named in the complaint filed by Dominion Voting
Systems. But he is also the subject of a lawsuit brought by Abby Grossberg, his
former senior booking producer, who filed two different lawsuits.