NY Times’ Jeremy Peters: Tucker Carlson “had no shortage of enemies at Fox” and “people were celebrating his firing inside the network”
Peters: “You would have to imagine that there are people who are trying to reveal things that Tucker Carlson doesn’t want revealed”
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From the May 2, 2023, edition of MSNBC's Katy Tur Reports
KATY TUR (HOST): But now we're also seeing, what I find interesting, leaks about Tucker Carlson about his time at Fox News, which is unusual to see from Fox. Does that point us to maybe something messier happening in the future between Tucker and Fox?
JEREMY PETERS (GUEST): Well, that's a big question, because we know that he had no shortage of enemies at Fox, and that people were celebrating his firing inside the network. So, you would have to imagine that there are people who are trying to reveal things that Tucker Carlson doesn't want revealed about his behavior while he was there.
Now, in the interest of keeping the peace and not having a fired Tucker Carlson out there attacking the network, which is what they don't want, because we saw this lawsuit was all about the network being under attack by Donald Trump and Trump supporters, and they've panicked because that led to a decrease in the ratings. Since Tucker's departure, we've already seen a decrease in the ratings at Fox. So I think the last thing that they really want is some messy public fight with their former host who has a pretty big following still.