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Fox lost $800 million when Tucker Carlson Left

Published 27 April 2023
– By Editorial Staff
Tucker Carlson has been perhaps Fox's most popular host in recent years.
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Fox Corporation’s value as a publicly traded company fell by over 800 million dollars after the media company announced that star host Tucker Carlson is leaving the company and Fox News.

Carlson, whose last broadcast was on Friday, April 21, is leaving Fox News despite the fact that he remains perhaps the most popular host on the network, with 334,000 viewers in the coveted 25-54 age group in the 8 p.m. time slot last week, according to AdWeek – which was also more than twice as many viewers as competitors CNN and MSNBC.

Fox shares fell to $29.27 on Monday, down 5.2 percent, representing a market value loss of more than $800 million, before recovering slightly later in the day. The shares also fell slightly on Tuesday, but recovered on Wednesday, rising 28 cents, or nearly one percent, to $30.

Carlson’s abrupt departure comes less than a week after Fox reached a $787.5 million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems, which had sued the company in a $1.6 billion defamation case related to Fox News’ coverage of the 2020 presidential election.

In the short term, the financial implications for Fox may be minimal because advertisers typically book their times in advance, but “if ratings really plummet” it could become a major problem, according to Joseph Bonner, senior securities analyst at Argus Research.

– In the medium and long term, there may be some financial impact depending on who takes Carlson’s place and their success, or lack of success.

Although Carlson has been very popular, some observers believe that Fox has a good chance of finding one or more popular replacements, pointing out that the network has historically been good at “producing new stars over time”.

According to the Los Angeles Times, it was Fox’s main owner Ruport Murdoch himself who made the decision to fire Carlson. The decision is said to have been a direct result of Tucker Carlson’s former producer Abby Grossberg filing a lawsuit against Fox alleging, among other things, that she was subjected to “anti-semitic” and “sexist” comments.

 

In a video clip on Twitter, Tucker Carlson addresses his followers and rages against the American media and politicians. He bluntly states that they “shut down” debates on important topics and control what can be said on issues such as war, science and demographic change.

– Debates like that is not permitted in American media. Both political parties, and their donors, have reached consensus on what befits them and they actively collude to shut down any conversation about. Suddenly the US looks very much like a one-party state. That is a depressing realization, he says, stressing that the current era will not last forever.

– The people in charge know this – that’s why they’re hysterical and aggressive, he continues, proclaiming that those who “tell the truth” will eventually prevail – while the “liars who have tried to silence them” will shrink and become weaker.

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Over 100 killed in Gaza over the weekend

The situation in Gaza

Published today 16:01
– By Editorial Staff
Ruins after bombings in Gaza, archive image.
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On Saturday alone, at least 70 people were killed in Gaza and 208 were injured, reports the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.

At least 40 more people were killed in new attacks on Sunday, including six children who were killed at a drinking water distribution point, according to a spokesperson for Gaza’s civil defense authority to AFP. Representatives from Al-Awda Hospital confirm that they received ten bodies following an Israeli attack on a water collection point in nearby Nuseirat. Hospital staff estimate that the actual death toll is 129 and that 33 of those killed were queuing for humanitarian aid.

The Israeli military, which has recently intensified its operations in Gaza, has according to Defense Minister Israel Katz received orders to establish a concentration camp that they refer to as a “humanitarian city” in the southern part of Gaza, where they aim to eventually house Gaza’s entire population.

According to health authorities in Hamas-controlled Gaza, the death toll now exceeds 58,000 people.

North Korea declares “full support” for Russia

The war in Ukraine

Published today 12:58
– By Editorial Staff
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during their meeting in Wonsan, North Korea.
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North Korea is providing its “unconditional support” to Russia in the war against Ukraine. This was declared during a meeting between Kim Jong-Un and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Wonsan on Saturday, according to North Korean state media.

Kim Jong-Un informed Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov that the country stands ready to provide strong assistance in the conflict against Ukraine during a meeting that took place on Saturday in the coastal town of Wonsan on North Korea’s east coast, a location that the country has recently attempted to market as a tourist destination.

According to the North Korean news agency KCNA, Kim Jong-Un told Lavrov that North Koreans have “expressed full sympathy and support for all the measures taken by the Russian government to remove the root cause of the Ukrainian conflict”.

The North Korean leader is also said to have expressed his “firm conviction that the Russian army and people” will triumph and “achieve the sacred cause of defending the country’s dignity and fundamental interests”, KCNA reports.

Before the meeting with Kim Jong-Un, Lavrov met with his North Korean counterpart, Foreign Minister Choe Son-Hui, earlier in the day.

Deepened military cooperation

Lavrov’s visit to North Korea marks increasingly extensive military and political ties between the two countries, which have accelerated in connection with the war in Ukraine.

Pyongyang has previously sent thousands of soldiers to the Russian border region of Kursk to participate in fighting against Ukrainian forces that occupied parts of the area.

War hawk: Trump will send “record amounts of weapons” to Ukraine

The war in Ukraine

Published today 11:05
– By Editorial Staff
War hawk Lindsey Graham with Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo to the right in a meeting in Helsinki, Finland in August last year.
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The US will send more weapons than ever to Ukraine. These are the tones being heard around the Trump administration as NATO chief Mark Rutte now visits Washington.

A large part of Trump’s voter base is generally considered to be voters who voted for him in hopes that he would reduce US involvement in foreign wars, partly because he promised during the campaign that he would end the war in 24 hours. However, these promises seem to be becoming increasingly distant for the American president.

On Monday, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte is scheduled to meet Trump in Washington, and Rutte can be pleased that more weapons than ever are now heading to the war in Ukraine. This according to information from, among others, the neoconservative war hawk Lindsey Graham, Republican senator and close ally of the Trump administration.

In the coming days, you’ll see weapons flowing at a record level to help Ukraine defend themselves, says Graham on CBS’s program “Face the Nation”.

European countries foot the bill

A central part of the escalation is that NATO countries, including Sweden, have pledged to increase their weapons purchases, which in practice are largely procured from the American military-industrial complex.

Graham believes that the US escalation of weapons deliveries to the war in Ukraine is part of a “massive effort” to force Russian President Vladimir Putin into peace negotiations. It should be added that Russia has in many different contexts over a long time emphasized that they have been open to negotiations as well as being open about their peace conditions, which primarily revolve around guarantees of Ukraine’s neutrality.

Trump has signaled that he will make a “major statement” about Russia during the day.

FBI official in audio leak: “Law enforcement turned a blind eye” to Jeffrey Epstein

The Epstein case

Published yesterday 10:37
– By Editorial Staff

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A high-ranking FBI official accuses the justice system of having “turned a blind eye” to Jeffrey Epstein in a leaked audio recording. Rami Hasan, a senior FBI official, says that “you can see where the law enforcement either turned a blind eye… or missed things (on Jeffrey Epstein)”. In the same recording, he describes the FBI as “a shit show”.

The statements come as the Trump administration’s handling of Epstein documents draws sharp criticism from both the president’s supporters and opponents, after Attorney General Pam Bondi previously promised to release extensive material that is now claimed not to exist.

Internal criticism of FBI’s Epstein investigation

In the leaked audio recording, published by O’Keefe Media Group, Hasan says:

– You can see where the law enforcement either turned a blind eye… or missed things (on Jeffrey Epstein).

Jeffrey Epstein was the American-Jewish financier who was accused of extensive sex trafficking of minors before he suddenly died in his cell in 2019 while awaiting trial.

– There is opportunities there, just from like hearing and listening, Hasan says in the recording according to O’Keefe Media Group regarding the investigation.

When asked if he believes Epstein was murdered, Hasan responds:

– I think he just killed himself… I mean, even the FBI came out and said he killed himself.

Hasan also commented on how government officials allowed influencers and internet personalities to distribute Epstein-related documents, which he called “messy” and said lacked clarity and professionalism.

Scandals surrounding the Epstein case

Jeffrey Epstein, who reportedly died in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York in August 2019 while awaiting trial, has become the subject of extensive questioning regarding the circumstances of his death. The official conclusion that he committed suicide has faced widespread criticism and been surrounded by mysterious circumstances.

In July, the Department of Justice and FBI released a joint report claiming that there is no longer any “client list” of Epstein’s alleged co-conspirators, and that there is also no evidence that he was murdered. The report also established that no further charges are expected in the case.

Criticism of Bondi’s handling

Hasan’s statements come as Attorney General Pam Bondi faces growing criticism for her previous claims about Epstein material. In February, Bondi admitted in a Fox News interview that she had a “client list” on her desk that she would review. Later, she claimed that the government had “tens of thousands” of Epstein-related videos in its possession involving sex with children.

These statements directly contradict a recently presented report from the Department of Justice and FBI, which now conversely claims that no such client list exists at all, and that all available investigative material has already been accounted for.

Internal conflicts at the FBI

Tensions have also reached the FBI’s leadership. According to Fox News, a heated discussion arose between FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino and Attorney General Pam Bondi at the White House on Wednesday regarding the handling of Epstein files.

Both Bongino and FBI Director Kash Patel had previously, before taking their current positions, questioned the official version of Epstein’s death. Since taking their posts, however, they have publicly maintained that Epstein took his own life.

When President Trump was asked about the Epstein case during a government meeting this week, he said irritably: “Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein?” and called the deceased financier “a creep”.

Source behind the leak

O’Keefe Media Group was founded by James O’Keefe after he left Project Veritas in 2023. The FBI and the US Department of Justice have reportedly been contacted by O’Keefe Media Group regarding Hasan's statements, but have not yet commented on the leak.

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