Tucker Carlson was ousted by Fox News in part because executives were angry at his bitter criticism of them following the 2020 election, according to The Wall Street Journal – which, like Fox, is owned by Rupert Murdoch. Carlson, who joined Fox in 2009 after stints at CNN, PBS and MSNBC, was not told why he was being dismissed when CEO Suzanne Scott called him on Monday morning. Scott told him the decision was made ‘from above.’ The decision was made on Friday night by Lachlan Murdoch, according to the WSJ. The paper said that executives were angry at the ‘disparaging and derogatory remarks’ he made about colleagues, including a plea to get White House reporter Jacqui Heinrich fired for fact-checking Donald Trump, and calling his bosses ‘incompetent liberals’ and ‘f******’. The comments were made public as part of the defamation suit filed against Fox by Dominion voting systems, which was settled last week at a cost of $787.5
Fox News ‘took issue’ with Tucker Carlson’s ‘derogatory remarks’ towards staff and bosses before shock departure: Anchor called them ‘incompetent liberals’ who were ‘destroying their credibility’
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