Tucker Carlson GONE from Fox

[Dill]

(04-26-2023, 12:10 PM)Nately120 Wrote: We shall see.  I think people expect/demand a certain amount of incendiary and slanderous content from Tucker, so I'm not sure he can dial it back and remain effective (his fans would accuse the company of censoring him, not Tucker himself). Additionally, the Fox settlement is a bit of a "first blood" sort of thing.  At this point Tucker's red flags and risks to a company are known and repeat-offenders have a harder time dodging legal repercussions.

Fox getting Tucker and it costing them, that's bad for them, but another company hiring him after that...well, that's getting risky.  I don't know how much Tucker brings in per year, but we do know he's a big part of one massive settlement bill.

But as you said, Newsmax or any other place saying Tucker was fired for "speaking his mind" is just opening the door to their own company being sued or lambasted by Tucker fans for "not letting him speak his mind" when they try to avoid a lawsuit of their own.  His audience is going to demand more and more slanderous stuff, and if they tell him to not say it, well...they'll be violating his 1A right and they'll become enemy #1.

A lot of the libel liability can be finessed by, e.g., not mentioning a company's name. Or placing a disclaimer somewhere about "entertainment" or Tucker's views not the network's, etc. 

Just a few additions like that would make it EXTREMELY hard to prove intentional malice, the bar such suits would have to meet for a news organization.

The other side of the coin are the work environment suits, Tucker's mistreatment of employees, especially of the female variety. One might get around that with NDA's and selecting the employees who are actually down with sexism and anti-semitism.  Some chicks dig REAL men, probably more of those at Newsmax than even Fox.