The best comment I’ve seen thus far about this bit of news is:
Tuck around, find out.
I just find the “have agreed to part ways” phrasing beautifully ironic in light of what actually happened, wherein Tucker wasn’t doing much agreeing! 
Yes, with Carlson being informed of his “mutual” agreement 10 minutes before it was announced to the public. 
According to this article.
The Fox host Harris Faulkner addressed Carlson’s departure on air on Monday morning, saying the network and Carlson had “mutually” agreed to separate.
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Carlson found out about his firing 10 minutes before it was announced, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Alas, near as I can tell, we still haven’t heard a statement about the firing from Carlson himself, so my schadenfreude is incomplete
Can you just imagine what kind of dirt they have on him?
I can’t imagine he’d fight back too hard with the knowledge they helped hide several of the skeletons in his closet for him.
Probably, but not any place reputable. He’s lost far too much credibility playing the unhinged lunatic on Fox.
What makes you think he was playing?
It’s a bit fun to imagine it went this way:
Murdoch: You’re fired.
Carlson: You can’t fire me; I quit!
The beauty of that is it still fits the narrative.
He committed the cardinal sin of any criminal organization: he went against the family. All the lies, the incitement to insurrection, the seditious conspiracy? No matter. It’s because of his disrespect to the bosses that he must be made an example of.
Carlson: “Who’s this guy at my desk?”
Murdoch: “That’s Tim. Tim is here to help you pack your shit.”
Carlson: “Huh?”
Tim: “Put your shit in this box, asshole.”
Carlson: “You can’t talk to me like th…”
Tim: < frog marches him out to the parking lot >
That’s how it went down in my imagination, anyway.
The internal texts obtained by Dominion suggest that at least some of his antics were performative, though I don’t doubt that he’s a genuine far-right loon.
Lately it’s been because Fox was not covering his “speeches” and rallies and has been giving DeSantis a lot of attention. And he wasn’t happy with the insider info from the Dominion case where pretty much everyone admitted they knew they were lying and the election was not stolen. He may get over all that when Murdoch realizes that DeSantis is not going to beat Trump and Murdock has to kiss the ring again for ratings. But that’s not just yet.
Inside the simmering feud between Donald Trump and Fox News - The Washington Post
I think it took maybe just about a half-century, beginning with the movie, “The Candidate:”
Where the culmination of the film – Redford having, unimaginably, won a Senate seat – has Redford asking “What do we do now?”
Couple that with a 318-page document, called, “A Plan For Putting the GOP on TV News:”
These worlds were destined to collide. I think we were all witnesses to the inevitable, if dilatory, Right Wing Big Bang.
There wasn’t an end game. There wasn’t an exit strategy. Nobody got there. That wasn’t mission critical. Ailes, in effect, gave them a road map to political hegemony – a road map that wasn’t perfect, but one that delivered better results than the policy prescriptions, or intrinsic value, of the party merited.
Ailes envisioned, created, and headed The Shiny Object – maybe the closest thing the US has ever seen to pure State Media.
But it did something other than keep the masses stultified and anesthetized. It angered, enraged, and awakened them. It brought them to the polls, intoxicated with a fury that they couldn’t quite explain, but replete with a laundry list of enemies and ‘others’ that – they were more than comfortable declaring – were the reason for their rage.
“What do we do now?”
I can’t wait to find out.
Fox News and its cohorts – those who survive the lawsuits yet to come – will NOT go gentle into that good night. It will, however, be fascinating to see what their next move really is.
I have never watched either OANN or Newsmax, but they are players on the self-same stage; therefore, worth keeping an eye on.
“May you live in interesting times…”
Good Lord! He’s still using the code word globalists for people he doesn’t like. :smh:
As were Bill O’Reilly and Glenn Beck. IIRC both of them were at the top of the Fox line-up when they were fired, and neither managed to do anything really significant afterwards.
I even heard one pundit suggest that Fox does this (firing their top talent, ratings wise), as a power move - just to prove that they can do so without losing their audience.
I suspect that Tucker will faff around for a while, and snark at his former superiors, and probably try to gloss over his problems with Trump.
Getting a position with DeSantis for Media relations might well be a coup for both parties, and I (if I was a betting person) would bet on that. It would make DeSantis look strong for ‘standing up to Fox’ they let Tucker go, and Tucker would be allll sorts of Smug about Fox having to go to him to smooze DeSantis.
But, as @aurora_maire pointed out, it’s almost inevitable as things stand that Fox is going to have to go back to Trump “with tears in their eyes” and beg for access, as it doesn’t look like DS is going to be able to drag the MAGA out from under Trump this cycle at least.
So after that, I would bet that Tucker tries to go with his own PodCast/Streaming show but that’s a pretty heavily crowded field, and going it alone will be expensive and difficult.
After which, he’ll try to sign with someone, anyone to cover the next election cycle, only to find out his past habits have made him untouchable - no one will want to risk the defamation issues, no one will insure him, etc.
So finally he’ll sulk out of the limelight and write the tell all book about his time with Fox, complete with the lies, hypocrisy, and how he was smarter than them all.
And it’ll make bank.
But he won’t likely ever get close to the power he had from the Fox pulpit which is a win, of sorts.
ETA - “with tears in their eyes” because of course.
Just realised I didn’t strip out the codes, so this made it look like I was quoting @Buck_Godot; meant to quote directly from the news article. Sorry, Buck!
Does anyone have objective info about how much Fox was paying TC? And how much money he was raking in on side gigs?
Just trying to decide if the price for me to totally turn into an anti-American fascist slimeball is already on offer or not. Not really, but it’s a nice fantasy. Shame the left doesn’t have such deep pockets in the service of Good.
Carlson, 53, was making between $15 million and $20 million a year hosting “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Fox News’ staple one-hour long nightly talk show, according to a person familiar with contract negotiations at Fox and other networks.
This was a couple years ago:
So that seems somewhat consistent.
He was reportedly making $6M when he started in 2016.
Tucker reportedly earned $6 million a year after Tucker Carlson Tonight premiered in 2016, per Celebrity Net Worth.
Its probably going to be hard to track down the side gigs, but his salary was 15-20 mil. a year.
This just shows that the only people who are truly irreplaceable at Fox are Murdochs. Everyone else serves at their pleasure.
That’s kind of the case with most dictatorships - the only people truly safe are the ruling family. All others, even the highest ranking officials in the regime (one could say especially the highest ranking officials), can be squished as easily as a cockroach.