Firing him from FoxNews fixes nothing when there are countless post-Fox places for him to go, from The Blaze to OANN to starting his own online media content company a la O’Reilly. He can then write a book and buy a few thousand copies which makes him a NY Times bestseller even if those books all get pulped a year later. Then he can appear on other shows and write op-eds for the Wall Street Journal.
Firing him accomplishes nothing. Not as long as the means are in place to shuffle his stupidity elsewhere On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 5:59 PM PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree with this, but this incident may be a catalyst for a change in the > political landscape; there has been a strange and unholy alliance between > Evangelicals (White conservative Christians) and conservative Jews. > Carlson’s step in overtly embracing such clear and well known anti Semitic > rhetoric may accelerate the weakening of that alliance, and if that happens > it may significantly alter the economics of Fox News’s hate based > programming. > > On Mon, 12 Apr 2021 at 9:36 PM Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 5:08 PM 'Greg Diener' via TVorNotTV < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I'll believe he's getting fired when it actually happens like O'Reilly. >>> >> >> Carlson's not going anywhere. The thing about being a target of outrage >> is that the outrage comes in a wave. If the wave is not big enough to sweep >> away the target, the target can talk to management and become entrenched >> enough to withstand similar waves as they come. In order to succeed the >> outrage has to come in a much bigger wave. At this point Carlson is a known >> quantity and any company who pays to advertise on his show knows what the >> show is about. The advertisers aren't going to be blindsided over whatever >> he says and they're not sensitive to boycott threats. >> >> The ADL did exactly the right thing in their language and demands. They >> have to publicly hold him to account for his bigotry. But their calling for >> him to be fired isn't enough to get him fired and they know that. >> >> In the longer term politics is continually undergoing changes and >> political media goes through its own changes. The circumstances might >> change to make it unacceptable to have a host openly spout bigotry on the >> air. We're not there yet and as much as it is important to keep pointing >> out instances of his bigotry it just won't get him booted from the air. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TVorNotTV" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJE-FiHYi-ua%2BdHoDkKs4X%3DCXD08apJSjCU5FWbStCN3dWz10g%40mail.gmail.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJE-FiHYi-ua%2BdHoDkKs4X%3DCXD08apJSjCU5FWbStCN3dWz10g%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- > Sent from Gmail Mobile > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkYL%2BmSOy1j%2BhCbr%2B-pYpixU6S4ZMp1zzsyoNROWk5Z5rug%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkYL%2BmSOy1j%2BhCbr%2B-pYpixU6S4ZMp1zzsyoNROWk5Z5rug%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKgmY4B3OvrP1akTwHvAJgR4yzWWBFZZcKQQAm-tyz9dODdMVg%40mail.gmail.com.
