The inside story of Tucker Carlson’s firing from Fox News is told, and it reveals that Fox remains a cancerous tumor of misogyny on the nation.
Brian Stelter wrote in Vanity Fair (profanity edited):
Carlson’s internal critics, of whom there were many, viewed his treatment of the female executives as part and parcel of the misogyny displayed on his show. More than a dozen current and former Fox employees brought this issue to me unsolicited. “Tucker is very tickled by misogyny,” said one presenter. Some staffers theorized that his mother’s abuse (she left the family when Carlson was six) created a negativity toward women.
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Carlson told a friend that the word f*ck is “overused so much that it has lost all power and meaning,” so c-nt was more effective: “It’s super naughty, but it’s to the point.” His brand, as weird as it was, revolved around the idea that he could call anyone the C-word or anything else at any time. He could say anything, do anything and never be called to account, as long as he captured the attention and affection of millions.
Fox News has had the Roger Ailes scandal, the Bill O’Reilly scandal, and countless sexual harassment allegations, but somehow the network let Tucker Carlson and his raging sexism run wild.
Organizationally, this reality suggests that no matter who is fired or how much money is paid out in lawsuits, nothing has changed at Fox News.
Fox News spreads a constant unspoken pulse of misogyny. It beats through every program.
The conversation about the toxicity of Fox News usually revolves around what is seen. Fox News plays on racial divisions, religious divisions, cultural divisions, and political divisions, but the network and Donald Trump are such a perfect fit because of the way sexism is part of Fox News’ DNA, embodied in human form by Donald Trump .
Tucker Carlson was always going to crash and burn. He did it at both CNN and MSNBC before Fox News.
The bigger problem is that Fox News is still dragging its feet and pumping hatred against a majority of the country into its viewers on a daily basis.
The problem was never Tucker Carlson. It was always Fox.
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Jason is the editor-in-chief. He is also a White House press pool and congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a bachelor’s degree in political science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.
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Member of the Society of Professional Journalists and the American Political Science Association