On Tuesday, Tucker Carlson announced that he is “back”. Carlson shared a video on Twitter in which he talked about the current situation of the news media, “the rule of what you can’t say defines everything”. He then shared that he believes Twitter is the last big platform that allows free speech. Carlson is ready to re-launch his show on that platform.
Carlson is also reportedly going after Fox News for breach of contract. Megyn Kelly shared the Axios report on the issue adding “PREACH.”
According to Axios, Carlson’s lawyers have sent a letter to Fox News accusing the network of fraud as well as breach of contract. The letter also included demands that could precede legal action.
The letter was sent to Fox News Chief Legal and policy officer Viet Dinh as well as Fox News PR Chief Irena Briganti.
Axios reported in part:
The lawyers accuse Fox executives — which two sources say are Dinh and Murdoch — of making “material representations,” or promises, to Carlson that were intentionally broken, constituting fraud.
Notably, the letter alleges Fox broke an agreement with Carlson not to leak his private communications to the media and not to use Carlson’s private messages “to take any adverse employment action against him.”
Multiple outlets have reported on Carlson’s redacted communications from pre-trial discovery documents and have suggested that they led to his ousting.
According to a source familiar with Carlson’s position, his lawyers believe that the misrepresentations alleged by Carlson amount to a breach of contract because they created additional terms of Carlson’s employment that were then broken by the company.
“These actions not only breached the covenant of good faith and fair dealing in the Agreement, but give rise to claims for breach of contract, and intentional and negligent misrepresentation,” the letter says.
It is also reported, just as Kelly speculated, that Briganiti has attempted to “undermine, embarrass, and interfere” with Carlson’s future business projects. The letter states intent to subpoena Briganti’s cell phone records as well as related documents and communications with her and all media.
The letter also instructs Fox News to “preserve all existing documents and data” relevant to Fox’s relationship with Carlson, including correspondence between top executives and several media outlets.
Kelly talked more about what she believes is going on behind the scene with Fox News and Carlson on her Sirius XM show, see the clip below. She made it clear she thinks Fox News is trying to keep Carlson off the air while they try to fix their ratings problem. They were hoping that Carlson would sit back and cash their checks until his contract was up in January 2025.
Carlson is clearly not interested in doing that, he wants to bring forth more “honest” news source. Many are looking forward to see what Carlson will do with his new show.
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