His show has their highest viewership, and I suspect the controversies he generates only bring more eyeballs to the network.
~Marti On Tuesday, April 13, 2021 at 8:58:48 PM UTC-5 Kevin M. (RPCV) wrote: > 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/d2f082e4-6ba5-4eef-ac32-e7efea03ae1an%40googlegroups.com.
