Paul Ryan and two other Murdoch family members are among the eight-member board of the Fox Corporation who are supposedly responsible for the firing of Tucker Carlson.
According to two people speaking to the New York Times, the Fox board of directors studied previously published text messages sent by Carlson to his producer the day before the Dominion trial was scheduled to start and before Carlson was fired. This led the board to come up with a plan to engage a legal firm to look into Carlson.
“It remains unknown how the text avoided being noticed earlier, given the fact that the Fox legal counsel was mindful of it along with other offensive texts submitted by Mr. Carlson,” the Times wrote. “Mr. Carlson was actually asked about it in a deposition, according to several individuals who reviewed the unedited transcripts from the deposition.”
The board was certain to come under fire for how it handled the Dominion matter in subsequent legal proceedings in Delaware, which may also involve Carlson’s messages. Rupert Murdoch, the chairman of Fox Corporation, and his son Lachlan Murdoch are significant members of Fox’s board, as well as former House Speaker Paul Ryan.
“It is anticipated that shareholder cases brought against Fox in Delaware would center on how its management and board handled the case in the months before to the trial’s start date,” according to the Times. “While Mr. Carlson’s show, ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight,’ was only a minor factor in the Dominion suit, his own private texts drew disproportionate attention.”
Carlson was fired soon after the Dominion case was settled. According to a Fox News insider, a crucial meeting that involved the Murdochs and maybe Paul Ryan took place at Fox following the settlement that resulted in Carlson’s dismissal.
“These two are the greatest dangers to the network given that they do not pay attention to anyone,” the source claimed about Carlson and Dan Bongino in a statement to Breitbart News. “After the Dominion settlement, there was obviously a meeting within the network—I am not sure if it was a meeting of the board or merely the Murdochs, but somebody made a decision.”
The Dominion compensation, along with more legal exposure, altered the board’s view of Carlson, ultimately leading to his dismissal. According to insiders, the Murdochs were shaken.
Add my name to the long list that’s getting longer that has also changed the channel plus removing Fox from my cell.
I don’t think you made a mistake. I had more respect of Fox. Gone now.
I do not watch fox news at all anymore and do not plan to.
We now see the liberal left showing in the Murdock family. Tucker will surely come out stronger in time. My viewing of the Fox Channel is very limited now.
Let’s not forget that POS Paul Ryan
Fox needs to find a way to coexist with strong personalities before there aren’t any leaders left. Like “Fox and ……..”.
Bob Grant
I never watch FOX TV and don’t plan to do so. In my opinion, Dominion voting machines had malfunctions in several areas of the US in the 2020 fraudulent election, can’t do anything about the past so let’s move on to 2024.
The only thing we watched on fox was Tucker & Bongino. Now there’s no point, we don’t support liberals & RINOS in anything they want or do. Dominion voting machines are a bad joke, if we are to have fair elections we need to go back to paper ballots. If the voters are too stupid or lazy to clean off the chads, their ballots should be discarded. FJB
Anytime you see Paul Ryan’s name there is crap to follow. He needs to jump over to the liberal side like Cheney did because they both weren’t any good as a Republican. Matter of fact they stunk at it.
I absolutely agree with you!
To the Murdock’s ….”You can’t handle the truth !! “
Lol good one.
Fox has definitely shot themselves in the foot. Their choice in persons to cover the time slot vacated by their poor decision to fire Tucker, is obvious. They will never recover from this. I believe Tucker was right. They are trying to “clean up” their “image” as a FORMERLY right wing news outlet in their hopes of selling fox.