Fox News says Tucker Carlson breached his contract

[Nevilledog]

https://www.axios.com/2023/06/07/fox-news-tucker-carlson-contract-breach

Fox News Wednesday notified Tucker Carlson's lawyers that the former prime-time anchor violated his contract with the network when he launched his own Twitter show on Tuesday, according to a copy of a letter obtained by Axios.

Why it matters: A breach of contract claim sets Fox News up to explore potential legal action against Carlson, a move that would intensify the already thorny public battle between the two parties.

Carlson’s lawyers told Axios that any legal action by Fox would violate his First Amendment rights.

“Fox defends its very existence on freedom of speech grounds. Now they want to take Tucker Carlson’s right to speak freely away from him because he took to social media to share his thoughts on current events," said Carlson's lawyer, Bryan Freedman, in a statement to Axios.

Catch up quick: Carlson was ousted from Fox News in April following a record $787 million defamation settlement with Dominion Voting Systems, which sued the network for making false claims about the company.

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[50 Shades Of Blue]

1. This sure has been a banner news day!

[former9thward]

2. First episode of 'Tucker on Twitter' nets more than 70 million views

The first episode of Tucker Carlson’s new show on Twitter earned tens of millions of views on the platform.

The 10-minute video, posted Tuesday evening, had been viewed about 73 million times by noon Wednesday, though that figure does not indicate how many individual users viewed the video or how long they watched for.

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/4038457-first-episode-tucker-twitter-views/

[Claustrum]

4. Pretty sure a lot of bots are used to push it.

The more views a video gets, the more the algorithm will spread it out. The right wing bot network knew what to do.

[revmclaren]

8. Bots upon bots upon bots.

They're trying to tell us that almost the number of maga's that voted for tRump watched tuckers....give me a break.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

13. And??????????

Pretty sure a lot of them were just curious people wanting to see just what craziness was coming from his pie hole.
Can you prove otherwise?

[edisdead]

19. pretty sure the most were not actual people

[Shermann]

3. Eh, I guess I'm with Carlson on this

I'm no fan of non-compete agreements, and they may go the way of the dinosaur.

https://time.com/6249347/fight-over-non-compete-clauses/

They never really benefit the employee. If you are lucky, you might get a signing bonus in trade. Mostly you get zip.

The courts generally don't like to keep a man from working and have been meh on enforcing these.

[Claustrum]

5. It's different for these people in "high position" than a regular worker/employee.

When we separate, we get nothing from the company. Carlson is still getting paid till his contract expires without actually having to work. So yeah, in this case, I think the non-compete should work because he is literally still getting paid by Fox News.

I agree with you on non-compete for normal people though.

If the company I signed a non-compete with would pay me till my non-compete period is over, I would have no problem with it.

[Shermann]

6. I'm not going to die on a hill for the guy

But the FTC proposal eliminates them across the board, and that is the right approach.

[Claustrum]

7. Yeah. Honestly, I don't think Carlson's case is a non-compete one.

He is still having a contract with Fox News and Fox News is still paying till the contract expires. He is violating the employment contract with Fox News.

If Fox News isn't paying him till the contract period is up, then it would be a non-compete problem.

[Shermann]

10. Maybe you are right

He should just cash his checks, hit the couch, and binge watch some Judge Judy and The Price Is Right all day.

If some company wants to sponsor me to not work, that's probably what I'd do.

[Claustrum]

11. He wants to both get paid by Fox Noise and also keep his profile and profit from his twitter channel

He isn't going to disappear for 2 years (or whatever it is that his contract is left) and let his celebrity status fade.

[Bristlecone]

9. I think they are looking for a way to not have to pay him out on his contract

Rather than preventing him from doing what his is doing.

[Cha]

12. Shocking. So who will win this one?

[MarineCombatEngineer]

14. Thats a hell of a good question Cha,

I think Faux Snooze has deeper pockets and better lawyers, but, I could be wrong, wouldn't be the first time, nor the last time.

Mahalo.

[Cha]

16. *Sigh* Kinda like it When Magat

Gaslit Fascist Go At Each Other. tucker has musk on his side..

Mahalo Back, MCE

[WarGamer]

15. Fox is pissed beause IIRC, Tucker got 30M views on Twitter of his rant.

[womanofthehills]

17. He's now almost to 95 million views

On Fox he had about 3 million. This is freaky.

[WarGamer]

18. damn.

Maybe the loons have watched it 3-4x??

[Nevilledog]

21. Twitter views is not what it seems.

It registers as a view even if you don't watch the video.

https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/view-counts

Who counts as a viewer?

Anyone who is logged into Twitter who views a Tweet counts as a view, regardless of where they see the Tweet (e.g. Home, Search, Profiles, etc.) or whether or not they follow the author. If you’re the author, looking at your own Tweet also counts as a view.

[WarGamer]

22. to put it in perspective...

The average Musk tweet gets 25-30M views... TC video is up to 135M views now

[Nevilledog]

23. It was also promoted and pushed into people's feeds

[Johonny]

20. Tucker is a moron

I'm sure the FOX lawyers know what is and isn’t in Tucker's contract.