SCOOP: Tucker's Out? What To Watch When "The News" Becomes The News
SmartHERNews
Jenna Lee
4.9 • 660 Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
When the news becomes the news, we shift to what matters most FIRST and then dig into the drama.
The economy: What to watch as we await important report cards on the U.S. economy, major American companies and what ALL this data might tell us about the health of the banking system.
Politics: President Biden and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis follow a familiar playbook. Plus - why Gov. DeSantis can't simply "jump" into the race without crossing some hurdles put in place by his state's government.
Sudan: Why instability in one of Africa's largest nations matters - a reminder of its former designation as a state sponsor of terror that once housed Osama Bin Laden.
Tucker: One of the most watched men in America and Fox News "part ways." What to read into the announcement and the broader questions being asked on the health of the American press - Have we pointed too far or not enough at the press over personal accountability?
Listen to two clips from recent interviews from the infamous Ray Epps and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. What do you think?
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everybody. Welcome to this week's scoop. What a time to work in news. As we start off this Monday, we're getting a flurry of headlines about the news industry itself. And we're going to talk a little bit about that here because we can't ignore it. I actually think the story is big and the big headline being this morning that Tucker Carlson, one of the most popular |
| 0:22.8 | and watch hosts in America and by proxy the entire world, is out at Fox News. |
| 0:28.4 | And there's all sorts of questions swirling around this. |
| 0:30.3 | We don't have a lot of answers, by the way. |
| 0:32.2 | So we can't dive too deep into it, but I think there's something to pull apart. |
| 0:35.5 | There's always a few threads to pull on. |
| 0:38.4 | The one thing I don't love about news on news personalities is it just feels strange, right? |
| 0:45.9 | Like, let's start a show only talking about the news, you know, when there's actual news out |
| 0:51.8 | there that affects so many more people in so many more powerful ways |
| 0:56.3 | than what's actually happening on television or on social media. |
| 1:00.2 | But in this case, I do think it's important, so we're going to tackle it. |
| 1:03.6 | As I was getting ready for today, I was thinking about a familiar saying, you probably |
| 1:07.1 | have heard me talk about this before related to the stock market. |
| 1:10.6 | And that is, it's not how the stock market opens, it's how it ends. And I had that lesson. I had to learn that lesson very early on as a business journalist because there was so much anticipation. Of course, I was going into work at 2 o'clock in the morning. So you were really waiting for the market to open. You were hoping you had to get there. You had to get |
| 1:28.3 | to the market open. There was a lot of excitement around that. But you sort of had to step back |
| 1:32.2 | throughout the rest of the day because stocks could go up and down. A lot of things could happen. |
| 1:35.5 | A lot of volatility could happen. And then it could all sort of go away by the end of the day |
| 1:40.3 | when the markets closed. And so despite all the rockiness in between the |
| 1:46.9 | picture at the beginning and the end weren't that different and i always think about that as such |
| 1:51.5 | an interesting metaphor for how we start our week or how we start our day or how we start a show |
| 1:55.5 | it's not always how you start it's also how you end and i was thinking a lot about this because |
| 2:00.8 | we're going to get a lot of |
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