Fox contractually threatens Tucker Carlson after his Twitter show
Fox News said former host Tucker Carlson violated his contract on Tuesday when he posted the first episode of his new show on Twitter, reports Axios.
“Tonight we became aware of Mr. Tucker Carlson's appearance on Twitter in a video lasting more than 10 minutes,” Fox News general counsel Bernard Gugar said in a letter to Carlson's attorneys.
"Under the terms of the agreement, 'Mr. Carlson's services will be completely exclusive to Fox,'" he continued, citing Carlson's contract.
Here is the twitter intervention of the well-known Anchorman USA, who spoke about Ukraine and other current issues by introducing his speech as "We are back", "We are back"
We're back. pic.twitter.com/sG5t9gr60O
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) May 9, 2023
Gugar also said Carlson was " prohibited from providing services of any kind, whether "over the Internet through streaming or similar distribution, or through any other digital distribution, either now or in the future ." Therefore, technically, it would even be forbidden for him to use Twitter or any other social media, precisely because these tools are also means of communication.
Carlson's legal team told Axios that any legal action by Fox would violate its First Amendment rights.
“Fox defends its very existence on the basis of free speech. Now they want to take away Tucker Carlson's right to speak freely because he used social media to share his thoughts on current affairs,” said Carlson's attorney Bryan Freedman.
Carlson's new show, 'Tucker on Twitter' has gotten around 80 million views as of 2pm Wednesday. A unique success for a social media that places it in direct competition with the large traditional mass media, also as an information tool.
In a roughly 10-minute video posted Tuesday and titled “Ep. 1,” the former Fox News anchor said Ukraine was responsible for destroying a massive dam in Russian-occupied territory, which resulted in massive flooding. A position that he could hardly have expressed on Foxnews, a conservative media, but on traditional positions.
The former host of US cable's most watched talk show said he hopes Twitter will become the "shortwave radio under the covers," with no "guardians."
Fox News Media and Carlson, its top anchor at the time, “agreed to part ways” in late April, less than a week after parent company Fox Corp. settled a $787.5 million defamation lawsuit. dollars.
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