Breaking development - Rupert himself fired Tucker.
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this might be breaking news if you literally know nothing about rupert murdoch.
from Maury Povich's book:
Current Affair: A Life on the Edge, pg 244
I knew the party was over when I met with Barry Diller at his Fox office and he congratulated me on the new talk show and wished for many years of A Current Affair. He gave me some good advice about the talk show: "Don't let the salesmen run the thing." Then he said, "there's a friend of yours here." In walked Rupert, who was charming and smiling and congratulated me, as well. Rupert and Diller started talking about the show-what time it would run, how it would play.
"not Nighttime," I said.
"Well, you should consider night time," said Rupert as if the whole thing had not been settled.
Moving forward he spoke to Paramount because he knew some people, made the deal and went that direction. after announcing to Fox his desire to exit they had to decide how to replace Povich. from the next page:
Brennan, [one of Murdoch's Aussie boys] however, thought that we could use my exit to the advantage of the show. He suggested that we hold a year-long nationwide talent search for my replacement. Naturally, I would be the one to go out and conduct the search. One more upside-down gag to confront the critics.
I thought it was a brilliant idea and would take the sting out of the departure: A clear display of no-hard-feelings, mate. I would also get a lot of media play and make the show look good, as well as make the corporate side of Fox look human and endowed with something that so few corporate systems had: a sense of humor.
But the word from Rupert was a cold rejection. He did not want to call attention to my departure-he didn't even want to call attention to my presence-and he certainly did not want to create another media star out of my replacement. The man still wanted to maintain his idea of proper employee/master relations. And so I would leave with the usual public relations statement of insincere regret. It would be handled as just another formal expression of corporate babble: bad-news-disguised-as-good-news.
rupert's modus operandi was: you do what you want, and i have last say. if tucker really did say no to him he was fired on the spot. at the end of the day for rupert it's ego and money. he will find a way to replace the money (again tucker likely doesn't do the bulk of his own writing for the show) and there will always be another schmuck along to read the TelePrompter. were people really watching fox and not understanding the kind of person rupert murdoch is? they really do appeal to the lowest common denominator if so.
on top of this look at the career Carlson had before Fox. I checked to see what his writing credentials could be and I'm genuinely surprised. he has not 1 but 3 books, in addition to writing articles, columns, and opinions for organizations such as the Arkansas-Democrat Gazette, The Wall Street Journal, The Daily Beast, The New York Times, Reader's Digest, and an article that won accolades for the Esquire in which he followed Al Sharpton and other civil rights activists on a trip to Liberia. In terms of television he worked for CNN, PBS, MSNBC, and getting eliminated first from a season of Dancing with the Stars. You can never tell with these people what their politics are off camera but the boondocks highlights my opinions quite succinctly.
i do change my previous statements and think if he decides to go it solo he will do okay. he has the writing experience to go somewhere, be it writing or setting up a smaller show. however, i don't think it will necessarily be as biting as the stuff fox was coming up with. he will also find more difficulty with legal trouble as Fox would offer more protection for some of the stuff you say. he's not gonna have that anymore.
