Tucker Carlson anchored the most interesting and important news show on television.
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Tucker Carlson is out at Fox News, and his enemies are aflutter with media-industry schadenfreude. Contrary to their self-image, most media types—including in right-wing journalism—are highly risk-averse and deferential in the extreme to the imperatives of power. So they can’t help crowing “Aha! Aha!” when a genuinely defiant and independent-minded figure among them appears to stumble.
Such a figure is Carlson. Beginning in 2016, he anchored the most interesting and important news show on television. He soon emerged as a tribune for populist opponents of endless war and Big Tech-enabled censorship and surveillance, at his best ripping into the GOP’s plutocracy caucus as well as mainstream Democrats. Along the way, his monologues became a nightly must-watch, including for the largest share of Democrats in the coveted twenty-five-to-fifty-four demographic.
read more at https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-courage-of-tucker-carlson/
