The LA Times is reporting that he was fired over the Grossberg lawsuit, but the Dominion lawsuit reportedly “may have also played a role.”
I'd be willing to bet that “may have also played a role” understates it just a tad, but I do not have access to Rupert Murdoch's brain so that's just a guess.
>>>Fox chairman
Rupert Murdoch ordered
Tucker Carlson’s firing over a discrimination lawsuit filed by a former producer on his show,
the Los Angeles Times reports.
Murdoch was also “concerned” about Carlson’s insistence that undercover government agents were involved in the January 6 insurrection, an allegation that has no factual basis, according to the Times.
In March,
Abby Grossberg, a producer who formerly worked on Carlson’s show,
filed a suit saying that lawyers for the network “coached” and “intimidated” her into giving misleading testimony in the lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems. She also alleged a culture of sexism and misogyny at the network, and that executives tried to blame her and host
Maria Bartiromo for the airing of 2020 election conspiracy theories.
While the Times reports that the dismissal wasn’t related to the Dominion lawsuit, it notes that comments made about managers at the network, which were revealed in the case’s discovery process “may have also played a role” in his ousting.<<<
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