Fox News Is Fully Tucker TV Now That Chris Wallace Is Gone

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-is-fully-tucker-carlson-tv-now-that-chris-wallace-is-gone?ref=home

Fox News Is Fully Tucker TV Now That Chris Wallace Is Gone
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With the consummate newsman gone, let there be no doubt that Murdoch will allow Fox News to more fully take on the grotesque form of Tucker Carlson.
Clive Irving
Updated Dec. 12, 2021 4:04PM ET / Published Dec. 12, 2021 3:46PM ET


The final fig leaf has fallen from Fox News, in the form of Chris Wallace’s exit. As it does, the nakedness of the Murdoch network assumes more clearly the grotesque form of Tucker Carlson.

There were several signs that the burden placed on Wallace as the de facto protector of truth at Fox was too much for him to endure for much longer.

Last month, in a long interview with Matthew Garrahan in the Financial Times, Wallace refused to comment on Carlson. Instead, he offered this bromide: “I am only responsible for and only have control over my piece of real estate. I’m proud of what we do… I feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to my audience and to the truth. Truth is non-negotiable. There’s no spin to truth. Truth is truth.”

With Carlson’s contempt for truth-telling going way beyond the range of Fox’s other primetime bloviators, the image of Wallace upholding his own guard rails—of him being the guarantor of the news division’s sanctity—was risible.

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There are several layers of executives between Murdoch and Fox News. He’s long ceased to be the hands-on boss he once was. But nothing has ever happened in any Murdoch operation that he did not allow to happen. So no matter what spin Fox will put on the departure of Chris Wallace, let there be no doubt that allowing the face of Fox News to become predominantly that of Tucker Carlson has the Rupert blessing. He has to live with that.

[Kath2]

1. Ugh.

I don't ever watch it anyway but.... ugh.

[OAITW r.2.0]

2. Was the News and Opinion 2 separate worlds? Perhaps, but no more.

I doubt that there's any Chris Wallace ready to take his place. News will be reported so as to support Opinion. If they can't, there will be no News to report.