At Fox News, the platform is king, not the on-air personalities, and Tucker Carlson is likely to re-emerge in a diminished position.
, Fox News had twice fired wildly popular hosts – and both times the network recovered better than the stars it cut loose.
“It seems like the parts are interchangeable,” says SiriusXM and CNN personality Michael Smerconish. “They’ve built a machine over there that seems to function even when the pistons are replaced.” There were signs that Beck was fading when then Fox News chief Roger Ailes cut him loose in April 2011. Ailes famously told Associated Press at the time: “Half of the headlines say he’s been cancelled. The other half say he quit. We’re pretty happy with both of them.”
O’Reilly now hosts a podcast and Beck has the sixth-most popular radio talk show in the country, but neither has the influence they had when they were on Fox, says Michael Harrison, publisher ofWhile Fox has shed big-name hosts with little damage in the past, the ouster of Carlson comes at a precarious moment for the network, says Nicole Hemmer, a Vanderbilt University professor and author ofSean Hannity made only two very brief mentions of Carlson’s name on Fox News on Monday night.
“It’s curious news,” Lavrov says. “What is this related to? One can only guess, but clearly, the wealth of views in the American information space has suffered as a result.”The day he was fired, Carlson was nearly invisible on the Fox News prime-time line-up that he used to dominate.
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