In which they denounce any attempt by large corporations including big Tech to keep particular voices silent on the grounds that those corporations dislike the ideology of the speaker and yet it seems very clear and this is something I’ve waited two months to argue because I wasn’t sure that it was true until now
That Fox News is seeking to keep its previously top-rated host Tucker Carlson completely silent on every conceivable media platform despite the fact that fox out of nowhere two months ago decided to fire Tucker Carlson unceremoniously and immediately and remove him from its own Airwaves as you almost certainly know once Tucker
Carlson was fired by Fox and his show was canceled and he was removed from the air he announced that he would be starting to comment on various issues on Twitter one of the very few places where he felt he could do so and have free
Speech he didn’t go to CNN he didn’t try and negotiate a deal to go to NBC or MSNBC or any of the networks he simply decided he would use social media like millions and millions of people do as his place where he could now be heard
And he was very clear as was Twitter and Elon Musk that there was no contract governing the relationship between Tucker Carlson on the one hand and Twitter on the other Twitter’s not paying Tucker Carlson to speak on Twitter he’s not charging subscriptions he doesn’t seem to be
Making any money at all from doing it he’s simply trying to use his first amount of rights to be heard on critical issues now that he is denied any platform on Fox it’s not just that Fox cancel his show they removed him completely from the Airways he doesn’t appear on any
Programs on Fox in fact the name Tucker Carlson ever since that first night when they had to announce that he was gone has not been mentioned on Fox News and according to at least one guess Chadwick Moore who’s now writing a book on Tucker he is banned from Fox because they
Believe he will talk about Tucker Carlson Tucker Carlson is unmentionable on Fox News apparently according to the management and they are now going out of their way taking very extreme steps to try and ban him from being heard at all now let’s start with the basics of what
Fox is doing as I said Tucker has posted so far three episodes of just a monologue a 10 to 12 minute monologue no gas nothing else that resembles his show onto Twitter three times in almost a week and a half so it seems to be a show that or a a video
That will Air twice a week on on Fox I don’t know when it airs people look at it and watch it the way they do other videos on Twitter whenever they see it whenever they find it clearly a 10-minute show is not intended to be a live show to distract other
People or take people away from watching television it’s only 10 minutes long it’s not appointment viewing the way his previous fox show was and yet Fox is adamant emphatic that he is not allowed to speak even on Twitter that he’s allowed to speak nowhere that you are not supposed to hear
From Tucker Carlson at all until 2025 until notably after the 2024 election is over after the GOP Primary is done the Republican Party picks its nominee after the various criminal cases now facing Donald Trump work their way through the criminal justice system and until the 2024 election is held you’re
Not supposed to hear from one of the most influential voices in all of American politics at all because Fox News has decided that they’re going to threaten to sue him if he speaks not if he speaks on a competitor or a competing network but anywhere including social media hear from the New York
Times on uh I believe this is June 12th so I believe this is uh Monday there the headline is FOX News tells Tucker Carlson to stop posting videos on Twitter quote Fox News is demanded that Tucker Carlson stopped posting videos to twitter escalating the dispute between the network and its former star host
Over how and if he can continue to speak publicly now that his prime time show is off the air in a letter sent to Mr Carlson from Fox lawyers the network accused him of violating the terms of his contract which runs until early 2025 and limits his ability to appear in
Media other than Fox the letter is labeled quote not for publication in all caps it’s so funny when lawyers think they have the right to order you to keep their threatening letters as secret as though they’re allowed to create some legal obligation on your part that you have to keep it
Concealed just by ordering you to do so as though if they make it at all caps it’s somehow extra official lawyers have no right to send you a letter and then force you to keep it a secret only the government has that power and even that
Power is abusive when the FBI is sent to a subpoena and orders you under a gag rule not to mention it but private lawyers don’t have that right but the fact that they’re reporting to tell Tucker he’s not even allowed to discuss what fox is doing to him shows how
Thuggish they are trying to be with him quote after the discovery of one particularly incendiary text from Mr Carlson the fox Corporation board decided to begin an internal investigation into his conduct now remember it was the fox board that initiated this investigation a few days later it says the New York Times he
Was out it’s very important to look at the fox board who composes that board and what their politics are because when it comes to the question of whether Fox’s acting ideologically or politically as opposed to solely in their corporate financial interest seeing who’s on the board
And what their politics is and how those that politics relates to Tucker Carlson’s views is extremely revealing the New York Times goes on quote Mr Carlson’s cancellation he is still an employee of fox unless the network decides to let him out of his contract has upended Fox’s lucrative and popular
Prime Time lineup Fox The Perennial top rated Cable News Network has seen its lead over its competitors slide roughly one-third of its prime time audience has tuned out since Mr Carlson was taken off the air think about how significant that is Fox with one Personnel decision lost a
Third of its audience 33 percent it’s just Fox viewers are just gone they would show up at eight o’clock to watch Tucker they would stay for the subsequent shows by Hannity and Laura Ingram sometimes show up early to watch Desi Waters and other than Greg gutfield who amazingly leads all programs
At 11 PM all these late night stars like Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert Greg Gutfeld is the most watched late night host in the country and he still is he seems insulated for the most part but other than him Fox’s Prime Time lineup is decimated
Their ratings are in free fall as a result of Tucker’s firing and they don’t seem to be recovering so for those of you who want to argue and I already heard this when we promoted this topic of the show that fox is somehow only acting in its corporate interest to maximize their profits
If that were true please tell me why they would have fired their most watched host they had to have known these are people whose jobs it is to understand this industry bad Tucker commanded a uniquely loyal audience I could have told you this just from seeing how people react to him in public
Seeing how he just for years has maintained the most watched show you could see them going there at eight o’clock to watch Tucker I can’t tell you how many people I know who are not conservatives who watch Tucker Carlson and never would dream of watching other Fox shows it’s
Obvious he was doing something unique he was doing something different he was doing something that was attracting a lot of attention including often he was leading the demographic of eight of 24 to 54 Democrats because for all the numbers that sometimes look decent for MSNBC never for CNN but sometimes that
For MSNBC the reality is that almost their entire audience is old and the reason that matters is because in cable the only audience that matters in terms of monetizing the audience are people who are 24 to 24 25 to 54. advertisers have no interest in old people because they’re already very set
In their ways in terms of what they buy they’re not very consumeristic advertisers only pay for access to Young audiences and MSNBC and CNN have none and Tucker aside from posting the largest numbers overall was posting very large numbers in that key demographic and keeping them there and now that he’s
Up they’re gone so if you want to tell me that Tucker Carlson’s that the attempted sucker silence Tucker Carlson by Fox is just a sort of standard thing that corporations do to protect their economic self-interest I’m going to show you a lot of evidence which I hope
You’ll hear with an open mind to disprove that view but let me start with this question if that is really the case if Fox were only motivated by its economic interests why did they fire their biggest star the most highly rated show host and cancel the most popular show on their air knowing
That it would drive away viewers why would they do that that was an economic hit a massive economic hit that they’ve taken which is not consistent with the corporation acting in their economic self-interest Thanks for watching catch our full shows for free live weekdays at 7 pm Eastern on Rumble and join our locals community at greenwald.locals.com for all of my written journalism exclusive after show q and A’s and more
