Why did Tucker Carlson get fired? Why did The American Prospect bow to Twitter-pressure after publishing an article about him? And, most importantly, why won’t newspapers print more misogynistic slurs??? All that, plus yet more discussion of Alex Goldman, American’s favorite crybully.
The texts that may have gotten Tucker Carlson fired
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/26/business/media/tucker-carlson-dominion-fox-news.html
WSJ: Tucker’s vulgar messages helped seal his fate
https://www.wsj.com/articles/tucker-carlsons-vulgar-offensive-messages-about-colleagues-helped-seal-his-fate-at-fox-news-e52b3cc5
Nick Confessore’s American Nationalist series
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/30/us/tucker-carlson-gop-republican-party.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/30/us/tucker-carlson-fox-news.html
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/04/30/us/tucker-carlson-tonight.html
Tucker Carlson on the Roma people
https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/887115275249885184
American Prospect
https://prospect.org/culture/wanted-two-new-prospect-writing-fellows-d2/
The offending article
https://prospect.org/politics/2023-04-25-tucker-carlson-smuggest-man-on-air/
Jamelle Bouie takes issue with the Prospect’s coverage
https://twitter.com/jbouie/status/1650993200901902337?s=20
Praise for the article
https://twitter.com/lhfang/status/1651254036975456257?s=20
Prospect Editor David Dayen’s twitter response
https://twitter.com/ddayen/status/1651237936984096769
The Prospect’s new article on Tucker
https://prospect.org/politics/2023-04-27-real-tucker-carlson/
Tucker responds to his firing
https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1651376097349578753?s=20
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