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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Martin Pengelly

Fox News v Tucker Carlson: dispute rumbles on weeks after messy exit

Carlson was fired on 24 April, in the aftermath of Fox’s $787.5m settlement of Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation suit.
Carlson was fired on 24 April, in the aftermath of Fox’s $787.5m settlement of Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation suit. Photograph: Brendan McDermid/Reuters

How did it come to this? Fox News and its longtime prime-time star at loggerheads as Tucker Carlson broadcasts on Twitter from a barn in Maine while the network that fired him demands he cease and desist.

“We’re at the two-month mark since Carlson’s last show, which he didn’t know was his last show. It’s striking that there’s no resolution even close to being in sight,” said Brian Stelter, once host of CNN’s Reliable Sources, now writing a second book about Rupert Murdoch’s media giant, Network of Lies: The Epic Saga of Fox News, Donald Trump and the Battle for American Democracy.

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