That's not true."Īnalysis 'Off the rails': New Tucker Carlson project for Fox embraces conspiracy theories "And that the federal government was going to be using the tools and tactics that it used to go after al-Qaida. government was coming after all patriots - half of the country, in the word of one of the protagonists in the piece," he says. "The trailer basically gave people the impression that the U.S. "I thought it was irresponsible to put that out into the public airwaves," Hayes says. Promotional videos for the series that aired on Fox News late the week before set off loud alarm bells throughout the network. "Not, you should understand, a metaphorical war, but an actual war, soldiers and paramilitary agencies hunting down American citizens." "They've begun to fight a new enemy in a new war on terror," Carlson warned his viewers in the first episode. "It was irresponsible to put that out into the public airwaves"Ĭarlson's series on the Capitol insurrection aired on Fox's paid streaming service, Fox Nation, in early November. All these moves tilted the channel to even more Trump-friendly content, even as its news programs gently tried to correct the record on the 2020 elections and the siege. The news anchor at 11 p.m., Shannon Bream, was pushed back to midnight in favor of Greg Gutfeld's opinion-driven comedy show. Goldberg says that he had been assured by Fox's news leaders that, as Trump left Washington, D.C., following his election defeat, the network would tamp down on incendiary commentary and claims.įox News also jettisoned the leaders of its political desk, laid off a bunch of researchers and installed a new opinion hour at 7 p.m., shifting news anchor Martha MacCallum from that time to a less visible midafternoon slot. A senior Fox News executive subsequently said the two contributors' contracts would not have been picked up after their scheduled expiration next year.
Murdoch did not return a request for comment through a spokesman. Through a senior spokeswoman, Scott and Wallace declined comment. Those objections rose to Lachlan Murdoch, the chairman and CEO of the network's parent company, Fox Corp. Veteran figures on Fox's news side, including political anchors Baier and Chris Wallace, shared their objections with Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott and its president of news, Jay Wallace. Senior Fox News journalists warned network executives Together, Hayes and Goldberg co-founded the conservative news site The Dispatch.Īccording to five people with direct knowledge, the resignations reflect larger tumult within Fox News over Carlson's series Patriot Purge and his increasingly strident stances, and over the network's willingness to let its opinion stars make false, paranoid claims against President Biden, his administration and his supporters. Hayes has been a close friend of Fox News political anchor Bret Baier since their college days at DePauw University both he and Goldberg were mainstays of Baier's Special Report after joining the network in 2009. That for me, and for Steve, was the last straw." "It traffics in all manner of innuendo and conspiracy theories that I think legitimately could lead to violence.
"It's basically saying that the Biden regime is coming after half the country and this is the War on Terror 2.0," Goldberg tells NPR. Capitol, which relied on fabrications and conspiracy theories to exonerate the Trump supporters who participated in the attack. In separate interviews with NPR, Stephen Hayes and Jonah Goldberg pointed to a breaking point this month: network star Tucker Carlson's three-part series on the Jan. Two longtime conservative Fox News commentators have resigned in protest of what they call a pattern of incendiary and fabricated claims by the network's opinion hosts in support of former President Donald Trump. Stephen Hayes and Jonah Goldberg have resigned. Capitol was the last straw for two network commentators. Fox News host Tucker Carlson's special on the Jan.
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