By DAVID BAUDER (AP Media Writer)
NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News mentioned Monday it has “agreed to part ways” with Tucker Carlson, its standard and controversial host, lower than every week after settling a lawsuit over the community’s 2020 election reporting.
The community mentioned in a press launch that the final program of “Tucker Carlson Tonight” aired Friday.
“We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor,” the press launch from the community mentioned.
Carlson turned Fox’s hottest character after changing Bill O’Reilly in Fox’s prime-time lineup in 2016. He’s additionally persistently drawn headlines for controversial protection, together with most lately airing tapes from the Jan. 6 Capitol revolt to attenuate the affect of the lethal assault.
There was no quick rationalization from Fox about why Carlson was leaving. A textual content message to Carlson looking for remark was not instantly returned.
Fox agreed final week to pay Dominion Voting Systems greater than $787 million and acknowledged that a few of its reporting following the 2020 election — which allowed former President Donald Trump’s aides to amplify false expenses of election fraud — was incorrect.
But that reporting largely involved different exhibits, not Carlson’s. His identify did come up throughout the case, primarily due to e mail and textual content messages that had been revealed as a part of the lawsuit.
Carlson and different Fox hosts had been caught in personal messages doubting their very own community’s allegations about Dominion’s position within the supposed election fraud, whereas additionally caring that Fox was shedding viewers amongst Trump followers on the time. In a few of them, Carlson privately criticized Trump, saying he hated him passionately.
A number of weeks in the past, Carlson devoted his total present to an interview with Trump.
Carlson was lately named in a lawsuit filed by Abby Grossberg, a Fox News producer fired after claiming that Fox attorneys had pressured her to provide deceptive testimony within the Dominion lawsuit. Grossberg had gone to work for Carlson after leaving Maria Bartiromo’s Fox present.
Her lawsuit says that Grossberg discovered “she had merely traded in one overtly misogynistic work environment for an even crueler one — this time, one where unprofessionalism reigned supreme, and the staff’s distaste and disdain for women infiltrated almost every workday decision.”
Fox has countered with its personal lawsuit, making an attempt to bar Grossberg from disclosing confidential discussions with Fox attorneys and saying in a press release that “her allegations in connection with the Dominion case are baseless.”
“Fox News Tonight” will air in Carlson’s 8 p.m. ET prime-time slot, hosted by a rotating array of community personalities, in the interim.
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