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[Mister Agenda]

Perhaps Fox New's insurance company told them that Tucker is going to cost them a billion in extra costs.

My day is much happier, hearing this news.

Yesterday AOC was on MSNBC calling for Tucker to be banned. Probably this didn't influence Fox's decision, but I'm not sure I like it when popular "liberal" politicians are calling for media censorship.

Tucker was often horrible, but he was the only one on corporate media who called for Julian Assange to be freed, who said that war with China would be stupid, and several other true things. Now even these little bits of truth will disappear from TV, as the rest of Fox is all in on fake news, and the other corporate outlets (e.g. MSNBC) are all in on slightly different fake news. 

It's a case of being careful what you wish for -- whoever replaces him will be worse.

I think you can make a strong case that the cost of settling the Dominion lawsuit, plus at least one lawsuit against Carlson personally that he's likely to lose, are entirely sufficient to explain his firing. Someone had to go, and it wasn't goint to be Murdoch.

I think a business model based on hiring people sure to get you sued is not sustainable, so I think it's unlikely that they'll replace him with someone worse. I think they'll go with slightly less terrible, so the can skirt close to the line of getting sued without crossing it.