He’s as mad as hell, and he’s not going to take it anymore!
No, we’re not talking about ‘Network’s’ Howard Beale here, but ousted Fox News broadcaster Tucker Carlson, who is taking aim at the ‘corporate media’ days after launching his own streaming platform for exclusive content.
‘They’re doomed,’ Carlson told DailyMail.com in an exclusive interview yesterday.
‘And on some level, they know they’re doomed, which is why they’re hysterical. The era of dominance by a few big media companies, the era of total control over all information by you know, nine people, that’s done,’ Tucker said.
And to make sure the message is clear he organized mobile billboard trucks with his image on the sides, emblazoned with ‘corporate media is dead,’ parked outside of the HQs of MSNBC, CNN, The Washington Post and The New York Times in Washington and Manhattan.
Fans are being encouraged to can sign up on his site for $72-a-year to access the ‘exclusive content’ with a ‘limited time offer’ to ‘become a founding member.’
The former host of Tucker Carlson Tonight was sacked shortly after Fox settled a $1.6billion lawsuit with Dominion and the feisty broadcaster used his announcement to target several networks and news outlets – warning that they are ‘dying’.
Tucker, 54, told DailyMail.com: ‘It’s important. We’re not doing it not doing it out of cruelty and hope we’re not rubbing this in anyone’s face or making the people who still work there feel bad, but they’re doomed.’
In an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com, Tucker Carlson said that top news organizations are ‘dying’ and claimed ‘they know they’re doomed’
Carlson can be likened to ‘Network’s’ Howard Beale who is given his two weeks notice due to poor ratings and instead of going out quietly, rants against TV networks
The former Fox News host had trucks with signs saying ‘corporate media is dead’ posted outside of the HQs of big media companies on Thursday
Digital billboards are going around NYC to promote the TCN Network. One billboard was placed in front of The New York Times building in Manhattan
Before his time at Fox, Carlson offered his conservative opinions on CNN shows. His mobile billboard was seen outside of the CNN offices today
‘It’s done because they misused their monopoly. You need new institutions to fill that smoking crater left by lying news organizations.’
And by new institutions, he’s referring to his own subscription service called The Tucker Carlson Network.
It comes seven months after he was sacked from Fox News days after the network was forced to pay out $787million in the Dominion defamation lawsuit.
Since then, Carlson has been uploading his interviews with divisive figures like Andrew Tate and Viktor Orban on X – formerly known as Twitter.
Carlson went on to criticize the New York Times by saying the organization has ‘no moral authority remaining’ and believes that NBC News will be dead in ten years.
He said it ‘enrages’ him that the media have lied to the public and are ‘refusing to admit it’, adding: ‘I’ve gotten lots of things wrong in my life, but I try to admit it – it doesn’t diminish me to admit it.’
The ex-Fox staffer did praise the NYTimes however for apologizing in 2004 for some of their coverage on the Iraq war and Saddam Hussein.
But he believes that they are now ‘speaking to a tiny audience of narcissists who lack self-awareness.’
‘They all lied, and they got caught lying repeatedly, and they never apologize for it,’ he added. ‘And if you do that often enough, your audience doesn’t believe you.
‘All interesting conversation takes place in independent media. There hasn’t been an interesting or true thought expressed on the Today Show in a generation. And everybody knows that.
‘When they do die, and it’s coming soon, I won’t mourn their passing. They deserve every bit of what’s happening to them.’
Carlson, 54, announced this week he’ll be launching his own $72-a-year subscription streaming platform called The Tucker Carlson Network
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Fans are being encouraged to can sign up on his site for $72-a-year to access the ‘exclusive content’ with a ‘limited time offer’ to ‘become a founding member.’ The billboards are seen in front of the Washington Monument
The era of dominance by a few big media companies, the era of total control over all information by you know, nine people, that’s done,’ Tucker said. A billboard is pictured in fron the The Washington Post’s headquarters Thursday
Carlson was fired from Fox in the aftermath of the Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit which saw the company sue the broadcaster for $1.6billion for defamation.
Dominion claimed hosts like Carlson knew then-President Trump’s election fraud claims were untrue, but pushed them for ratings.
They settled for $787million at the 11th hour, narrowly avoiding an embarrassing and highly-publicized trial where Carlson and other hosts would likely have been called as witnesses.
Carlson was not told why he was being forced out at the time – but Fox CEO Suzanne Scott reportedly said the decision was made ‘from above.’
Various insiders have claimed it was News Corp boss Rupert Murdoch who made the decision, with Carlson opening up about his departure to DailyMail.com.
Speaking to DailyMail.com, he said: ‘Fox News did a lot for me and gave me a platform for 14 years.
‘They were kind to me, the Murdochs were kind to me every minute I worked there, and not one time did they tell me what to think or say. Not one time were they anything but elaborately polite to me.
‘I will always appreciate that. And I don’t care what happens next. There are people there I think mistreated me or I don’t respect or whatever, but I don’t want to whine about it.
‘In the end, I’m a lot happier and I’m just I’m grateful for the experience and I’m not gonna attack them. I’m glad that I’m doing this.’
Carlson joined Fox as a contributor in 2009. He was given his own show on the network in 2016 and quickly became its most watched host
Since being fired, Carlson has been hosting his shows on X, with recent episodes being viewed hundreds of millions of times.
His Fox show, Tucker Carlson Tonight, drew in 3.5million viewers every night – but in recent years it was dubbed the ‘most racist show on cable.’
Then a series of controversies including the Dominion claims and Carlson’s own comments about the January 6 riots led him into increasingly hot water.
He admitted that he knew his time there would not end with a ‘teary goodbye’ to his viewers with a final show, adding ‘the end comes swiftly and without warning.’
Carlson joined Fox as a contributor in 2009, having previously offered his conservative opinions on CNN shows.
He was given his own show on the network in 2016 and quickly became its most watched host, cementing his own fanbase and reputation for taking some of the most extreme, hard-right positions on cable news.