![]() We just don't know what, and so there's a lot of questions about that one. It has to have something to do with the $787 million settlement with Dominion. I mean, I think the Don Lemon story, not a lot of shock across the industry, because there was the news that you iterated, but Tucker Carlson, this came out of the blue. Yeah, certainly a massive, massive two shakeups there. So he clearly is this force at Fox, and I'm curious how that will impact their viewership numbers with two really big heads talent at this company just out. The program averaged 4.2 million viewers during the week of March 27th to finish the week as the most watched cable news program. It's unclear whether Carlson's firing was related to the lawsuit, but it is clear that his show brings a heck of a lot of viewers to the network, according to Nielsen. But the news comes less than a week after Fox settled a defamation lawsuit brought on by Dominion Voting Systems for nearly $800 million. As you were mentioning, Dave, shares of Fox fell as much as 5%. That obviously caused a bit of a storm there, after he said those words.Īnd remember, CNN is in the middle of a very intense rebrand right now, so I wouldn't be surprised if that factored into the decision, but it wasn't the only major bombshell network announcement that we got. He said on his show that a woman is only considered to be in their prime, in their 20s, 30s, maybe '40s. ![]() Now for some context here, Lemon has had some controversy recently, the most notable being his comments about women. Now CNN did respond in a statement of its own saying, Lemon's recount of the events is inaccurate, writing, quote, he was offered an opportunity to meet with management, but instead released a statement on Twitter. ![]() But he did publish a statement on Twitter saying he's stunned that management did not have, quote, the decency to tell him directly about the firing. There was no explanation to why he was fired. First, Don Lemon out at CNN after 17 years. Let's start with the latest and work backwards because there has been so much that's happened.
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