CNN's John Berman says he was surprised when Fox fired Tucker Carlson. He said the network has a pattern of keeping viewers for its personalities, not their personalities. There are alternatives to right-of-center television that there weren't in those previous times, and part of it is sort of the sort of broken brain of the populist Magga right - winning is proof of surrender. "The only thing that's noble and pure is failure," writes Berman.
Fox News and social media are two arenas that will define the next presidential race. Today, after Kara and Nayeema discuss the implications of the recent injunction by a federal judge banning Biden administration officials from communicating with social media platforms, we dive into Fox’s Rupert-Trump-Tucker love triangle. We’re joined by a panel including New York Times reporter Jeremy W. Peters, Guardian columnist Margaret Sullivan, and Dispatch Editor in Chief Jonah Goldberg.
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