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Originally Posted by pip08456
Could this be the reason?
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Pretty much guaranteed. The text messages Dominion got hold of ahead of the hearing pretty much prove Carlson was more interested in Fox ratings and stock price and was prepared to say anything on air in pursuit of them - including things that were opposite to his belief (apparently he actually hates Donald Trump) and things he knew were untrue (The election wasn’t stolen; Dominion voting machines weren’t fraudulent or faulty).
He may not have been personally responsible for the entire mess but he’s senior enough and influential enough to have been highly complicit and to be able to act as the sacrificial lamb. I don’t know how high up the decision to sack him was taken but it does have a whiff of the News of the World about it, and it was the man himself who decided that needed to close in order to protect the empire.
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Specctator U.S. gossip column is now saying as much:
https://thespectator.com/topic/tucke...upert-murdoch/