Three high-profile firings cast harsh light on US TV’s workplace culture

Tucker Carlson had recently mused that the media were ‘part of the control apparatus’ and that he had spent his ‘whole life being part of the problem’. Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

They say three makes a trend and US television was convulsed last week by a trio of scandals and sudden sackings that cast a harsh spotlight on a too often toxic workplace culture that floods the top echelons of TV land in America as surely as the fill-in lights of a broadcast studio.

It also helped cost the jobs of three of the biggest names in the media landscape as well as convulsing some of the most powerful media empires in America.