Whatever rabbit hole Carlson chooses to explore, Fox and his viewers will follow. YOUNG: He is basically going to mobilize his audience to do who knows what to Fox News.įOLKENFLIK: For now, Young says, Carlson has made himself the defining figure of the network. He's going to get on his show and complain about his network and how that's censorship.įOLKENFLIK: Young says Carlson would turn his audience against Fox. So they tell Tucker that he's not allowed to engage in certain behaviors. YOUNG: Now I feel like things are completely off the rails. Young says Fox, once in the iron grip of the late chairman Roger Ailes, now lacks clear editorial leadership. Fox's CEO Suzanne Scott did not respond to my questions about Carlson's series. How is it precarious? They have created a monster.įOLKENFLIK: University of Delaware Professor Dannagal Young studies political communications and extremism.
It's like, no, they're super-powerful here. And here's Fox once more, giving major time to unfounded conspiracy theories about a national crisis.ĭANNAGAL YOUNG: Fox is in a very precarious spot. At the same time, Fox is facing multibillion-dollar defamation lawsuits from election tech companies for promoting Trump's lies that the 2020 election was rigged. Many viewers swore they wouldn't forgive Fox for being the first to call Arizona for Joe Biden. Fox has the largest audience in cable news, but its core remains loyal to Trump. HOLT: In a way, you don't need conspiracy theorists like Alex Jones to even exist if Tucker Carlson's going to do the job of the conspiracy theorist for them.įOLKENFLIK: Fox, always conservative in inclination, is facing a dilemma. He believes Carlson is poisoning the well to discredit journalistic and law enforcement findings and to warp Republican politics. JARED HOLT: These kind of conspiracy theories about January 6 used to be relegated to weird blogs and, you know, known conspiracy theorists like Alex Jones out in the ether.įOLKENFLIK: Jared Holt monitors extremism on social media for the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab. In "Patriot Purge," Carlson warns viewers just who is being targeted.ĬARLSON: It is a purge aimed at legacy Americans.įOLKENFLIK: Legacy Americans - part of language the Anti-Defamation League calls a dog whistle for white supremacy. And in the documentary, he relies on a rogues' gallery of conspiracy theorists. He disputes headlines from NPR and others to discredit all mainstream reporting.
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Carlson tells me the series proves news organizations were lying about the riot and its participants. But it's being promoted on Fox News, including on Carlson's top-rated prime-time show. TUCKER CARLSON: They've begun to fight a new enemy in a new war on terror - not, you should understand, a metaphorical war but an actual war, soldiers and paramilitary law enforcement guided by the world's most powerful intelligence agencies hunting down American citizens.įOLKENFLIK: The series is running on Fox News' right-wing, subscriber-only streaming service Fox Nation. NPR's David Folkenflik reports that the season comes at a perilous moment for the network.ĭAVID FOLKENFLIK, BYLINE: Tucker Carlson strongly suggests without any real evidence that the January 6 takeover of the halls of Congress was not orchestrated by Trump supporters but by his opponents in Antifa or even the FBI. Capitol by supporters of former President Donald Trump. The series promotes unproven and even disproved conspiracy theories about the January 6 siege of the U.S. Tucker Carlson of Fox News is unveiling a three-part series he's calling "Patriot Purge." The third installment will be released tomorrow.
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