This article gives me great hope Jonathan that a news show host earning big money, and enjoying the limelight, can over time develop an independent and questioning mind, like yourself. It’s taken Tucker awhile, but hooray he’s come on in leaps and bounds. I wish him all the best in his next steps.
From Caitlin Johnstone Tucker Carlson is a virulent empire propagandist who's probably responsible for more anti-China sentiment in the US than anyone alive. He's got well-documented overlaps with the CIA and has helped keep Americans roped into the mainstream two-party system. That said, his firing suggests that he probably did become unacceptably inconvenient for the powerful in some way. The mass media are for propaganda first and profit second, and if you're not useful enough at the first it doesn't matter how good you are at generating the second.
Carlson is not antiwar in any meaningful way, but from an antiwar perspective I can't see any reason to be happy about his ouster. The guy who opposed brinkmanship with Russia because he wants to focus on brinkmanship with China will be replaced by someone who wants brinkmanship with both.
Murdoch is not your friend. The Murdoch media empire did not oust Carlson to advance human interests or make the world a nicer place. That seems a safe bet to me.
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Every time I criticize Tucker Carlson I get all these wounded and upset responses from people reacting like I just punched their best friend. Don't cultivate parasocial relationships with rich TV pundits, it's gross.
It's pretty clear that the terms "left" and "right" are useless definitions today. Like all of us living in the hostile twilight of the world's most dangerous empire, we move in one political direction or another as we learn which side of the fence we must stand on and, to our amazement, learn that there are people who will stand with us on at least some important issues. Tucker changed from a boring imperialist shill into one of this century's best objective journalists, and became aware and ashamed of his past politics. Nobody progressive would berate him for this. Those who do are simply registering for the imperial camp, switching to the bullies' side of the fence. Good riddance! I stand with Tucker, Julian Assange, Venezuela, Cuba, Russia, China, Palestine. We want peace, development and damn the warmongers!
THANK YOU! A wonderful reporting. I just hope that you are correct in your assessment: “media “consumers” are slowly becoming less passive and more critical of traditional sources of information.”
Thanks. Spot on. Amazing how fast legacy media is imploding. Me thinks Tucker will end up on Substack &/or Rumble. Murdoch cut his own throat in service to the #EmpireOfLies.
“Yes, over the years Carlson played on white fears, placing him firmly on the right”. Underplaying the violence against black life that he has mobilised.
Excellent and necessary article. Thank you Jonathan.
This article gives me great hope Jonathan that a news show host earning big money, and enjoying the limelight, can over time develop an independent and questioning mind, like yourself. It’s taken Tucker awhile, but hooray he’s come on in leaps and bounds. I wish him all the best in his next steps.
From Caitlin Johnstone Tucker Carlson is a virulent empire propagandist who's probably responsible for more anti-China sentiment in the US than anyone alive. He's got well-documented overlaps with the CIA and has helped keep Americans roped into the mainstream two-party system. That said, his firing suggests that he probably did become unacceptably inconvenient for the powerful in some way. The mass media are for propaganda first and profit second, and if you're not useful enough at the first it doesn't matter how good you are at generating the second.
Carlson is not antiwar in any meaningful way, but from an antiwar perspective I can't see any reason to be happy about his ouster. The guy who opposed brinkmanship with Russia because he wants to focus on brinkmanship with China will be replaced by someone who wants brinkmanship with both.
Murdoch is not your friend. The Murdoch media empire did not oust Carlson to advance human interests or make the world a nicer place. That seems a safe bet to me.
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Every time I criticize Tucker Carlson I get all these wounded and upset responses from people reacting like I just punched their best friend. Don't cultivate parasocial relationships with rich TV pundits, it's gross.
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Tucker will do just fine as a true independent.
It's pretty clear that the terms "left" and "right" are useless definitions today. Like all of us living in the hostile twilight of the world's most dangerous empire, we move in one political direction or another as we learn which side of the fence we must stand on and, to our amazement, learn that there are people who will stand with us on at least some important issues. Tucker changed from a boring imperialist shill into one of this century's best objective journalists, and became aware and ashamed of his past politics. Nobody progressive would berate him for this. Those who do are simply registering for the imperial camp, switching to the bullies' side of the fence. Good riddance! I stand with Tucker, Julian Assange, Venezuela, Cuba, Russia, China, Palestine. We want peace, development and damn the warmongers!
To my shame, I had not realised that Carlson had reached our beyond Murdock control. Thanks for enlightenment.
Good piece, but as other commenters have inferred it begs the age old question, “Is my enemy’s enemy necessarily my friend?”
THANK YOU! A wonderful reporting. I just hope that you are correct in your assessment: “media “consumers” are slowly becoming less passive and more critical of traditional sources of information.”
Thanks. Spot on. Amazing how fast legacy media is imploding. Me thinks Tucker will end up on Substack &/or Rumble. Murdoch cut his own throat in service to the #EmpireOfLies.
Excellent article, thank you once again. I always look forward to your articles, as they are unfailingly intelligent.
As a longtime MoA barfly (mostly lurking) I heartily pledge your next drink is on me! Cheers and carry on sir!
Poor Tucker.
My heart bleeds for him. Such a stalwart for the truth.
He sure is part of the problem, I'll agree with that.
I'm starting to see an unfortunate trend of praising right wing polemicists and crackpots, just because they are anti-establishmentarian.
Sorry if I don't share your enthusiasm for sharing bed with kooks and fascists.
Mainstream media be bad. Yes we know. Murdoch is a ghoul. Yes we know.
A ghoul sack a subordinate ghoul who will be replaced by another ghoul.
Before I get accused of sucking up to the MSM; bollocks, I have no TV and don't consume liberal media online either.
Oh, and newsprint is much too coarse for my pile riddled arse.
Thank you Jonathan for your excellent analysis.
Like clockwork: https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkab7z/tucker-carlson-russia-fox-news
The Russia solution.
Not sure if you really want to be amplifying anyone Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene are praising?
“Yes, over the years Carlson played on white fears, placing him firmly on the right”. Underplaying the violence against black life that he has mobilised.