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25-04-2023
WASHINGTON: Right-wing primetime host Tucker Carlson is leaving Fox News immediately, days after the Rupert Murdoch-owned cable network settled a historic defamation lawsuit for spreading election lies.
In a surprise statement on Monday morning (US time), the company announced that Fox and its highest-rating presenter “had agreed to part ways”.
“Carlson’s last program was Friday, April 21st. Fox News Tonight will air live at 8pm/ET starting this evening as an interim show helmed by rotating FOX News personalities until a new host is named.”
The news took the US media world by surprise and rocked the conservative movement, particularly as Carlson did not sign off from last Friday’s final Tucker Carlson Tonight show, which has aired since 2016.
Minutes later came another unexpected announcement involving veteran CNN anchor Don Lemon, who revealed on Twitter he had been fired.
Lemon did not provide a reason, other than to note “it is clear that there are some larger issues at play”. However, the termination came after Variety magazine published a story this month alleging the left-wing presenter had 
mistreated female colleagues during his career at the network. Earlier this year, he also came under fire for saying that Republican presidential nomination candidate Nikki Haley, who is 51, was not “in her prime”.
“I was informed by my agent this morning that I have been terminated by CNN,” Lemon tweeted. “I am stunned. After 17 years at CNN, I would have thought that someone in management would have had the decency to tell me directly.”
The reasons for Carlson’s departure have not yet been outlined by Fox or the 53-year-old presenter, who was the network’s most popular host, netting an average of more than 3 million viewers per night but he was also a deeply polarizing figure, who used his platform to push everything from anti-trans views to extreme claims about vaccines or conspiracy theories about migrants being brought into the US to “replace” white people. (Int’l Monitoring Desk)
