On Monday’s segment of his prime-time show, the Fox News host Tucker Carlson cast doubt on the reasons behind the worldwide unrest prompted by the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis last month.
“This may be a lot of things, this moment we are living through,” Mr. Carlson said. “But it is definitely not about black lives, and remember that when they come for you. And at this rate, they will.”
Since he made those statements and others, prominent companies including the Walt Disney Company, Papa John’s, Poshmark and T-Mobile have distanced themselves from “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” joining other businesses that have backed away from the show in recent years.
The flight of advertisers accelerated on Tuesday, when the watchdog group Sleeping Giants tagged T-Mobile in a Twitter post, saying that Fox News had aired what amounted to an “extremely racist segment scaremongering about the Black community.”
OwlbearAviary on June 12nd, 2020 at 18:25 UTC »
Until the NETWORK loses that ad money nothing will change on said network.
Calguy1 on June 12nd, 2020 at 17:37 UTC »
I don’t know how anyone can stand watching any tv news program without losing their sanity. Its nothing but talking heads blathering endlessly about their opinions and telling you how to think and feel. The level of brainwashing happening right now is comically horrific.
monodescarado on June 12nd, 2020 at 17:26 UTC »
None of this was surprising... other than the fact that Fox News gets $75 million dollars in ad revenue and more than a third of that comes from fucking MyPillow...