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Larry Correia, elsewhere:

I am seeing a lot of people not really understanding today’s events in cable news. Ha ha. Tucker Carlson is such a loser. Big dummy got fired!

That shows a very boomer era understanding of media consumption and overestimation of the power of a traditional news channel.

He didn’t need Fox. The last I saw his contract there was something like cheap, which is chump change to a guy with a reliable audience in the millions every night.

Tucker Carlson is now going to go sign a Joe Rogan size contract on a streaming service. He will make the most money of any news broadcaster in history and probdbly do so by an insane margin.

Meanwhile Don Lemon is a relative non entity. He won’t bring much of an audience with him wherever he goes.

One of these two will get a pay cut. The other is going to make orders of magnitude more money, and has the investment potential to boost any media corporation he signs with into a very competitive sphere.

And I don’t even watch Fox News at all, nor do I care about Tucker Carlson. But if you are too blinded by goofy partisan point scoring to grasp the business implications of this, it’s a bad look, but it ain’t my problem.

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(EDITED to fix borked link.)

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Lillia Gajewski's avatar

Thank you. I've been depressed all day. I know it's stupid, but Tucker Carlson was the first news show I ever watched because, while I did disagree with him from time to time, he was the first conservative I came across that did not lick the boots of the Republican Party, corporations, and the war machine, and he identified the same fundamental problems I did. Granted, I had been living in a Democrat bubble for a while, but, god, he was so refreshing. He seemed sincere.

And Ryan Gardner on here has it right. He calls it the "suits"; I call it the Machine. But he was giving voice to a truth many of us peons have understood for a while now. R or D, there ain't any difference. They all see us as obstacles or resources, but feel no compunction to treat us as individuals worthy of their time and attention.

But the fence on that particular gate doesn't even go a few feet into the woods. It's a wide open field thanks to platforms like Substack and Rumble and the like, and all you have to do is step two feet to the side and you'll be by it. And the only ones who don't understand that quite yet are those who actually think getting Tucker off cable will save them.

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