Moneyball for television

Created
Tue, 25/04/2023 - 06:30
Updated
Tue, 25/04/2023 - 06:30
Tucker’s model is what cost them 787,500 million dollars Nicholas Confessore wrote a major Tucker Carlson expose last year which convinced me that Carlson is a man totally motivated by money and not much more. He is so venal that he will literally say anything in pursuit of his goals. This seems like a good day to post the summary of that article. The man is a blight on humanity: Night after night on Fox, Tucker Carlson weaponizes his viewers’ fears and grievances to create what may be the most racist show in the history of cable news. It is also, by some measures, the most successful. With singular influence — reaching far beyond Fox and the viewers who tune in to his show — Mr. Carlson has filled the vacuum left by Donald J. Trump, championing the former president’s most ardent followers and some of their most extreme views. As fervently as he has raced to the defense of the Jan. 6 rioters, so has he sown doubt and suspicion around immigrants, Black Lives Matter protesters or Covid-19 vaccines. A New York Times examination of Mr. Carlson’s career, including interviews with dozens of friends and former colleagues, and an analysis of more than 1,100 episodes of his Fox program, shows how he has grown increasingly sympathetic to the nativist currents coursing through U.S. politics, and how intertwined his rise has been with the transformations of his network and of American conservatism. Here are some key takeaways from “American Nationalist,”…