Boardroom Talk – $20m pa Tucker Carlson’s firing shouldn’t be a surprise. Murdoch acted rationally

By Alec Hogg

I've been fascinated by reports accompanying news that the US's most-watched TV host, Tucker Carlson, has been fired. On Monday, $20m a year Fox News anchor was given his marching orders, the first business day after his employers paid $787m to settle a defamation suit over the channel's false claims about US election fraud.

Not being a Fox News viewer, the first time I came across the storied right-wing Carlson was during the pandemic when his producers were looking for contact details on local Covid-vaccine critics. He was back in my consciousness last year when Politicsweb defended Carlson's perspectives on SA farm murders (click here).

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