Footsteps Not Dominion Got Tucker Carlson Fired

Last week the reigning king of prime-time cable, Tucker Carlson, was abruptly fired with no forewarning to him or his millions of nightly viewers. Most observers of the abrupt and unanticipated firing point to the $787.5 million Dominion defamation lawsuit as the reason, which is fine with owner Rupert Murdoch whose pride and reputation prefer that no one know the true reason he acted so abruptly.

To be accurate the Dominion lawsuit was an indirect factor in Rupert Murdoch’s decision to fire Tucker Carlson, but in reality, there is a potential lawsuit far more frightening to Murdoch, that has nothing to do with the Fox Fake News channel’s standard operating procedure of lie-for-pay propaganda that defames anyone or any corporation. In addition to the potential lawsuit that Murdoch secretly fears, as of March 20, 2019, he is now less than half the powerful titan that he once was leaving him very vulnerable to all of those he has run roughshod over in the past.

Some of those Murdoch has run roughshod over in the past are cable and satellite providers such as Comcast, Spectrum, DirecTV, and Cox. According to Media Matters Murdoch has been able to raise prices and charge…