Fox News is caught between a rock and a hard place after prime-time host Tucker Carlson's ouster, with legal challenges piling pressure to curb what observers call blustery on-air disinformation at the risk of alienating his large conservative audience.. "Tucker Carlson's ouster exposed the inherent flaw in Fox News' business model: It built a massive audience with incendiary, toxic rhetoric," Matt Gertz, a senior fellow at the nonprofit Media Matters for America, told AFP.
"Carlson's show drove away advertisers, but now his fans are abandoning Fox, and to win them back, the network will likely have to deploy the sort of Carlson-style content that alienates its business partners.
Thu, May 4, 2023
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