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Let's Know Things
Colin Wright
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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This week we talk about Tucker Carlson, Disney Plus, and free ad-supported TV.
We also discuss ad-supported video-on-demand, the new streaming wars, and the pivot to video.
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| 0:00.0 | On April 24, 2020, Fox News, a bastion of right-leaning and at times full-on far-right ideological |
| 0:24.0 | thought, announced that its primetime political commentary show Tucker Carlson Tonight would be |
| 0:29.9 | canceled, and its host, Tucker Carlson, would be dismissed effective immediately. |
| 0:35.5 | This was a bit of a shock because Carlson has been such a force on the right side of |
| 0:40.1 | American political discourse for so long. His show was one of the most watched shows of any kind |
| 0:45.4 | on cable in the United States, and he'd been hoisting the network's viewer numbers since 2016, |
| 0:51.7 | when that show kicked off and he started serving as the core of its prime-time lineup. |
| 0:56.8 | Carlson has also been influential beyond the media component of conservative politics in the United States, |
| 1:02.6 | helping to push former U.S. President Donald Trump into office and serving as a kingmaker |
| 1:08.1 | for candidates across the right side of the political spectrum. |
| 1:11.6 | His approval or disapproval could make or break a campaign, and his framing of issues |
| 1:16.6 | often set the tone for those issues all the way up to the White House. |
| 1:20.6 | Despite that impact and influence, though, he was kicked off Fox News with relatively |
| 1:25.6 | little fanfare or notice, seemingly assuming that things were going fine, even up to the last moment. |
| 1:32.8 | He only learned that he had been let go, offered the opportunity to resign, basically, which is a polite way to fire powerful people, hoping it will incentivize them to not make too much of a fuss or sue anyone on the way out, |
| 1:46.1 | only learning all of that as he was preparing for his next episode and told, |
| 1:50.6 | nope, sorry, you are done. |
| 1:52.7 | This story is notable for a few reasons, |
| 1:55.1 | many of which revolve around that aforementioned massive influence that Carlson has had in conservative politics. |
| 2:01.6 | He is a big deal. He has a huge, loyal following, and he's considered by many, even those that |
| 2:07.8 | don't like him, and who disagree with him about essentially everything, to be the intellectual |
| 2:12.6 | center of the Republican Party, a smart and thoughtful person who does things strategically and in a well-planned |
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