According to Chadwick Moore, Tucker Carlson’s biographer, Fox News employees reportedly are ditching the cable news network to join the former primetime host.
“My sources have now told me *NINE* former Tucker Carlson Tonight staffers have left Fox News to join Tucker on his next venture. There are others who are waiting to leave as soon as a role opens up for them with Tucker. Each of the 9 approached Tucker, not the other way around,” Moore tweeted.
My sources have now told me *NINE* former Tucker Carlson Tonight staffers have left Fox News to join Tucker on his next venture. There are others who are waiting to leave as soon as a role opens up for them with Tucker. Each of the 9 approached Tucker, not the other way around.
— Chadwick Moore (@Chadwick_Moore) June 17, 2023
In Tucker Carlson’s Twitter episode titled ‘Wannabe Dictator,’ the former Fox News host revealed that a longtime Fox News producer left the network after he was disciplined for placing the caption “Wannabe dictator speaks at the White House after having his political rival arrested” under Biden while he was giving a speech.
The incident occurred behind closed doors, but Carlson's coverage helped the story make national headlines.
AP reported:
A longtime producer for Tucker Carlson is out at Fox News after he was deemed responsible for the on-air headline that referred to President Joe Biden as a “wannabe dictator” because of the indictment of former President Donald Trump.
The producer, Alex McCaskill, confirmed his exit in an Instagram post. Fox News did not comment on Friday.
He had remained at Fox after Carlson, the network’s most popular personality, was fired on April 24. The reason for Carlson’s sudden ouster, less than a week after Fox agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems $787 million to end a defamation case, has never been publicly explained.
It was during the last minutes of Carlson’s former time slot on Tuesday when the message appeared under separate onscreen boxes that showed Biden and Trump talking. It read: “Wannabe dictator speaks at the White House after having his political rival arrested.”
Carlson, in a Twitter monologue posted Thursday, said “the women who run the network panicked” about the post and scolded the person responsible. Carlson didn’t name the producer, but said he was “considered one of the most capable persons in the building.”
The producer offered to resign with two weeks’ notice, but was told to clean out his desk and leave immediately, he said.
Alexander McCaskill, the former Fox producer who parted ways with the network for airing the "wannabe dictator" chyron, posted this photo of him leaving Fox offices. pic.twitter.com/epWyrHFULF
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) June 16, 2023
"Good, I hope he took the Chyron guy. He's my hero," a Twitter user responded to Chadwick Moore's tweet.
"He did," Moore replied.
He did
— Chadwick Moore (@Chadwick_Moore) June 18, 2023
"The Based Chyron Guy, Alex McCaskill, was a former Tucker Carlson Tonight producer who has now left Fox News after ten years, en route to joining Tucker’s new team. He is one of at least three former producers who have left Fox to join Tucker’s new venture," Moore wrote.
The Based Chyron Guy, Alex McCaskill, was a former Tucker Carlson Tonight producer who has now left Fox News after ten years, en route to joining Tucker’s new team. He is one of at least three former producers who have left Fox to join Tucker’s new venture. https://t.co/UioyIyk90L
— Chadwick Moore (@Chadwick_Moore) June 17, 2023
"Tucker Carlson’s team at Fox was extremely close. Most of them were there from the launch of the show until it’s end, and they’ve stood by their boss in the aftermath. I write about it in my book," Moore wrote.
"Also, quietly, many familiar faces from Tucker Carlson Tonight are refusing to appear on Fox News since Tucker was bizarrely pulled off the air—and not just the ones who got blacklisted for writing a book about him!" he added.
Also, quietly, many familiar faces from Tucker Carlson Tonight are refusing to appear on Fox News since Tucker was bizarrely pulled off the air—and not just the ones who got blacklisted for writing a book about him!
— Chadwick Moore (@Chadwick_Moore) June 17, 2023
The band’s getting back together. pic.twitter.com/K7qYzrXzb9
— Chadwick Moore (@Chadwick_Moore) June 17, 2023
From The New York Times:
Two top producers for Tucker Carlson's former show have left Fox News, in the latest fallout from the network's benching of Mr. Carlson.
Alexander McCaskill, a senior producer and formerly the managing editor of "Tucker Carlson Tonight," wrote on Instagram that his last day at the network was Thursday. Thomas Fox, who was a senior editorial producer on that show, also departed this week, according to two people with knowledge of the moves.
One of the people said Mr. McCaskill and Mr. Fox had been in discussions to leave the network before Tuesday, when a chyron that appeared on Fox News called President Biden a “wannabe dictator.”In a video posted to Twitter on Thursday, Mr. Carlson said the chyron had been posted by a producer at the network who had since left. While he did not identify Mr. McCaskill by name, Mr. Carlson listed facts about the person, such as his length of time at the network, that matched Mr. McCaskill.“Inside Fox, the women who run the network panicked” after the chyron was put up, Mr. Carlson said. “First they scolded the producer who put the banner on the screen. Less than 24 hours after that he resigned. He’d been at Fox for more than a decade."A Fox News spokeswoman declined to comment on Mr. McCaskill’s and Mr. Fox’s departures. In a statement on Wednesday, the company said that “the chyron was taken down immediately and was addressed.”
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