04-26-2023, 11:53 AM
(04-26-2023, 11:50 AM)Dill Wrote: Supposedly it went down 5 pts. the first day, then gained 2 pts the next.
But you bring up another interesting aspect of his termination, Xeno--
Is it the personality or is it the platform?
Fox did just fine, or even better, after dropping Bill O'Reilly and Glen Beck.
This is a bigger test case, I think. And the Fox audience has become more extreme since Beck.
The other Fox hosts have "wished Tucker well" and fallen silent about him;
it may be out of sight out of mind for many.
But Newsmax is still blabbing away practically every segment and involving their
viewers in a phone Poll: "Was Fox wrong to terminate Tucker?"
It will be interesting to see who the permanent replacement is on Fox.
I thought Newsmax was the one where Mike Lindell was on there talking conspiracy stuff and the host had to talk over him with a canned sort of "legal reply to assertions the election was rigged" in order to avoid a lawsuit themselves. If that's the case, I don't think they can afford to pay Tucker's salary, nor are they keen to pay the legal bills required to platform him.