Inside The Hive: Fox vs. Tucker Carlson

Inside the Hive

Vanity Fair

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4.2 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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On this week’s episode, host Brian Stelter talks to Gabriel Sherman and Bess Levin about the bombshell Fox dropped before the Dominion dust had even settled: the ouster of prime-time star Tucker Carlson. The Vanity Fair writers discuss what it means for the company, the viewers, and the host who seemed to have no boundaries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, welcome to Vanity Fair's special coverage of, let's now call it the Fox Trials Plural.
0:08.8	Because this story is not over, it just keeps getting bigger and stranger.
0:13.1	I'm Brian Stelter, and you know what this episode is going to be about.
0:17.2	On this week's show, it's all about Fox firing Tucker Carlson.
0:21.9	I will admit, I did not see it coming.
0:24.6	Tucker did not see it coming.
0:25.6	I don't think anybody saw this coming.
0:28.4	So there is so much to talk about now.
0:30.8	The avalanche of embarrassing disclosures, all of the theories about his ouster, we're
0:36.1	going to talk about all of them with Vanity Fair politics correspondent, best 11.
0:41.0	But first, let me bring in special correspondent Gabe Sherman.
0:45.7	He is an expert on all things Fox and the Murdox.
0:49.6	He has been reporting the heck out of this story.
0:52.4	So let's get right to it.
0:53.4	Gabe, I'm so glad you can be here with us at this moment to help us make sense of this.
0:56.7	I mean, it's been a few days, but everybody is still trying to figure out what the heck
1:00.9	does happen.
1:01.9	Yeah, Brian.
1:02.9	I think I saw you tweeted at the time of Tucker Carlson and Don Lemon's firing that it
1:08.4	was the craziest day in cable news history.
1:10.8	It was.
1:11.8	It was.
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