According to a recent report by The Wall Street Journal, Tucker Carlson, the former host of Fox News, was dismissed from his position due to comments he made in private about his colleagues and bosses. The report revealed that Carlson’s private text messages, which were made public as part of Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation lawsuit against Fox News, showed him criticizing Fox leadership and expressing concern about reporters fact-checking former President Trump’s false claims about voter fraud, which he believed could anger the network’s massive audience.
The Journal, which is also owned by Rupert Murdoch, reported that Carlson’s explicit text messages, some of which were redacted in the Dominion court documents, were known internally to senior Fox management and played a role in his ouster. The report also suggested that in one of the redacted messages, Carlson referred to a senior female Fox News executive using the c-word, which was deeply offensive.
