hello there, everyone. it is 4:00 in new york when you pull back delayers and really try to understand how any one of the most damaging conspiracy theories that have over the last few years now seeped into the mainstream political conversation and corroded the body politic, from election denialism to its violent manifestation in the january 6th insurrection to putin s war in ukraine, to conspiracies about covid-19 and the vaccine and mask wearing, to the discuss around replacement theory, which has actually been cited in the manifestos of mass shooters it is fair to say it is not hyperbolic to argue that tucker carlson is the through line through all of them. he is the champion of conspiracy theories and until today he had one of the largest audiences in cable news for diss sem natting them not anymore. news broke today tucker carlson is out at the network that handed him the biggest microphone of his career that stunning announcement by fox news made this morning in a short
summary judgment of a massive ought yen of viewers, a past logical fear of a ratings defeat and witches ease brew against in a network s own working journalists and fact checkers. we should tell you at any moment we re expecting breaking news in the form of fresh filens from dominion and fox, to lay out any arguments in the case. while we wait, for years we have turned to phrases lie inside the bubble and the echo chamber to describe that relationship between fox news and its viewers. never before has it been so plain to see from the outside. the discovery filings show that fox hosts were telling their viewers what they knew they wanted to here even when the very same fox news host communicated the truth to one another in private, which was different from what they were broadcasting. dominion s case may very well wrest on their ability to get a jury to understand that distinction. today, though, the story goes even further in the form of something rare. a highly visible i
Tony Abbott has been nominated to sit on Fox Corporation's board of directors, a day after media mogul Rupert Murdoch's retirement plans were unveiled.
too-big-to-fail persona often exaggerate their relationship with the bosses. we know tucker said or left the impression at least he was close to lachland murdoch. in his deposition, which is under oath, of course, he was asked about that relationship. he admitted that his relationship was not especially close and he only rarely spoke with lachland murdoch and when he was asked to define rarely he said not even once a week or on a weekly not even on a weekly or monthly basis so i think that, you know, if the murdochs indeed are behind this, which you have to imagine they at least had to have some knowledge or role in it since it is their company, i think tucker is just the latest example of somebody at fox news who thought that they were just bigger than the network was. yeah. no, and you re right, there have been so very i mean in that same time slot, famous examples of fox news and fox corp.
perspective, they pull together some that he they were formulating the first major motions, for example, you have the depositions sworn answers under oath from rue pertain murdoch, the creator of fox. he had been deposed, but you also have paul ryan, is on the board of directors of fox corp, fox news parent company. you re seeing that the lawyers d. and dominion s side, they re presenting through what they re presenting what evidence they re presenting ruper murdoch, you know and now a major corporate official, major adviser to lachland