Carlson fired on Murdoch's orders over
discrimination suit: report
Fox chairman Rupert Murdoch ordered Tucker Carlson’s
firing over a discrimination lawsuit filed by a former producer on his show,
the Los Angeles Times reports.
Murdoch was
also “concerned” about Carlson’s insistence that undercover government agents
were involved in the January 6 insurrection, an allegation that has no factual
basis, according to the Times.
In March,
Abby Grossberg, a producer who formerly worked on Carlson’s show, filed a suit
saying that lawyers for the network “coached” and “intimidated” her into giving
misleading testimony in the lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems. She also
alleged a culture of sexism and misogyny at the network, and that executives
tried to blame her and host Maria Bartiromo for the airing of 2020 election conspiracy
theories.
While the
Times reports that the dismissal wasn’t related to the Dominion lawsuit, it
notes that comments made about managers at the network, which were revealed in
the case’s discovery process “may have also played a role” in his ousting.
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