Report: Tucker Carlson Raising Funds For A New Media Venture
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Tucker Carlson reportedly has big plans.
According to a new report, Tucker Carlson is raising funds for a new media venture.
Tucker Carlson is reportedly raising funds for a new media venture in the wake of his Fox News ousting, and many of his former staffers at the network are reuniting with him for the project, according to a new report.
Puck News’s Dylan Byers reported on Wednesday that Carlson is currently raising funds for the venture and that the “vast majority” of his former staffers at Fox News who were laid off by the network this week will be joining him.
“It’s increasingly possible that the Twitter show is a top-of-funnel play for other things Tucker may soon have cooking,” wrote Byers, referring to the monologues Carlson has been posting on the social platform in recent weeks. “In fact, I am told he is raising capital to launch a new company that may yet prove more influential.”
Byers noted that Carlson would “certainly benefit from an incongruous number of ultra wealthy conservative media investors and a scant (though growing) number of opportunities,” and that his new venture could “serve as a paradigm for a generation of TV news personalities with huge followings and fandoms who remain marooned to their desks amid shrinking audiences.”
Fox News let go of staffers of Tucker Carlson Tonight, many are going to reunite with Tucker.
Two of Carlson’s top producers had already decamped weeks earlier after one of them had memorably gone rogue and labeled Biden a “wannabe dictator” on the chyron—a ridiculous stunt but also perhaps the latest example that the network’s untrammeled id really does defy Onion-level parody.
The eight remaining members of the Tucker Carlson Tonight team were told Monday that they would need to leave by mid-July, with the option to reapply for new positions. Such an outcome doesn’t seem terribly likely, of course. I am told that the vast majority of these employees will instead reunite with Tucker, who is currently posting Twitter videos from his barn in Maine, with bigger media ambitions afoot.
Fox made a big mistake.
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