Past firings at Fox carry lessons for cable network after Carlson

At Fox News, the platform is king, not the on-air personalities, and Tucker Carlson is likely to re-emerge in a diminished position.

David Bauder

Apr 26, 2023 – 2.26pm

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Before ousting Tucker Carlson, Fox News had twice fired wildly popular hosts – and both times the network recovered better than the stars it cut loose.

Fox’s dismissals of Glenn Beck in 2011 and Bill O’Reilly in 2017 offer lessons in what the post-Carlson fallout might be. Carlson was let go on Monday, less than a week after Fox agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems $US787 million ($1.2 billion) for airing bogus claims of voter fraud following the 2020 election.