Newsmax has been aggressively covering the firing of Tucker Carlson by Fox News, in no small part because it would love to hire him for its own TV channel (and in fact has reportedly offered to give him total control over it), as well as giving it an excuse to tweak its much larger and more popular competition. That coverage has continued:
- Tucker Carlson Returns With Inaugural Twitter Broadcast
- Fox: Carlson Breached Contract With Twitter Show
- Tucker Carlson: ‘Don’t Know’ Why Fired by Fox
- Tucker Carlson’s Twitter Show Garners Nearly 80M Views (in fact those numbers are untrustworthy as an accurate metric)
- Tucker Carlson’s Lawyer to GOP Lawmakers: Boycott Fox
- Tucker Carlson: Fox Caved on ‘Wannabe Dictator’ Chyron
- Tucker Carlson Hires Fox News Chyron Castoff
- Fox Fires Tucker’s Staff as Replacement Named
- Tucker Carlson Interviewing GOP Candidates at Iowa Event
Also, it wouldn’t be Newsmax if it wasn’t trying to profit off Carlson’s firing — we’ve already noted how it was wrapped into a promotion for David Horowitz’s Newsmax-published book. It also issued an “urgent poll” for readers to weigh in on the issue that included questions like “What is your view of Fox News?” and “Should Tucker Carlson join Newsmax as a prime-time host?” It has also created a promotion around an upcoming Tucker bio in order to sell subscriptions to Newsmax magazine:
He was the most powerful conservative voice in America.
And then, in a moment, he was gone.
At least from his perch at Fox News.
Now bestselling author Chadwick Moore reveals what really happened to Tucker Carlson in his new book, TUCKER — set to be released on August 1.
Tucker Carlson has endorsed TUCKER — and Newsmax will be among the first to have copies — check out the FREE Offer Here Now.
[…]Your FREE copy of TUCKER comes with a one year introductory subscription to Newsmax Magazine (with both print and digital editions) for only $19.95 — a savings of $30 at a regular rate.
Even more surprising than a promotion for a book about a man who long so long ago it was trashing for taking Russia’s side in its invasion of Ukraine is that Newsmax isn’t even publishing the book; promotions like this typically involve books published by its book division, Humanix.