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Daily Caller Blogger Quits After Column Critical of Fox News Gets Pulled[W:117]

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Yep, can't have no criticism of FauxNews on a "conservative" website - might lose one of those cushy jobs


That is funny, Kaus complained about Fox not being strong enough on certain Republican talking-points and even that - criticism from the right - was seen as too negative to be read on Carlson's website. Wow!!
 
Imagine - the owner of a website determining what can and can't be posted on his site. That never happens anywhere else. Maybe he could post his column here on DP?
 
CanadaJohn said:
Imagine - the owner of a website determining what can and can't be posted on his site.
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Clearly he doesn't. It would appear that it's Roger Ailes calling the shots at the Daily Caller.
 
Andalublue said:
Clearly he doesn't. It would appear that it's Roger Ailes calling the shots at the Daily Caller.
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Who owns the Daily Caller? Who made the determination of what to post or not post?

Who's hiding under your bed?
 
CanadaJohn said:
Imagine - the owner of a website determining what can and can't be posted on his site. That never happens anywhere else. Maybe he could post his column here on DP?
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Yeah, instead of doing what he did, he should have called Michelle Obama a cast member of Planet of the Apes and kept his job. Weren't you outraged when Univision determined what could and couldn't be said on their channel?
 
Hatuey said:
Yeah, instead of doing what he did, he should have called Michelle Obama a cast member of Planet of the Apes and kept his job. Weren't you outraged when Univision determined what could and couldn't be said on their channel?
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Nice deflection. And weren't you the guy who said private stations get to determine who gets to say what on their stations?
 
CanadaJohn said:
Imagine - the owner of a website determining what can and can't be posted on his site. That never happens anywhere else. Maybe he could post his column here on DP?
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Yes, imagine that. And imagine Tucker Carlson not wishing to bite the hand that feeds him.
 

Kaus is no Conservative.
Kind of surprising Carlson even carried him at all.
 
Carlson is within his right to fire him, of course.

It does confirm what we've all known about Fox all along.

"Nevertheless, right or wrong it was a mortal sin for Kaus to take Fox to task and Carlson couldn’t permit it to stand. The article was removed, Kaus was admonished, and subsequent to his resignation, Kaus gave this statement to Politico:


“It’s a larger problem on the right: Everybody is scared of Fox,” he said. “Fox is their route to a high-profile public image and in some cases stardom. Just to be on a Fox show is a big deal. And I think that’s a problem on the right, Fox’s monopoly on star-making power.”
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On this Kaus could not be more correct. Fox News has become the single most important prerequisite for entry into the rightist Heaven. Every conservative must make the pilgrimage to Fox if they hope to be saved. And no one knows this better than Tucker Carlson.


Prior to his embrace by Fox News, Carlson’s career was a pitiful collection of failures. He had been canceled by PBS, CNN, and MSNBC. And if that wasn’t embarrassing enough, he was the first contestant voted off of Dancing with the Stars. He seemed to be a recidivist loser with no reasonable hope for redemption. He had even burned bridges with regard to Fox News when, after a childish prank (by both of them), he called Fox “a mean, sick group of people.”


[h=1]Fox’s Bitch: Tucker Carlson’s Daily Caller Axes Article Critical Of Fox News[/h]
 
CanadaJohn said:
Nice deflection. And weren't you the guy who said private stations get to determine who gets to say what on their stations?
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What deflection? I'm calling into question your passive acceptance of what happened here. Were you or were you not outraged when Univision took executive action against one of its employees? I don't care about what the Daily Caller did. They can fire whomever they want. I'm just laughing that you're now accepting of such measures if the politics are right.
 
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If I quit every time an editor spiked an item of mine I would have had a thousand jobs.....if I could get hired.

Interesting the left Fox haters are up in arms over this...wasn't it CNN's owner who forbade coverage of the Benghazi hearings?

That's a bit more problematic if you ask me
 
nota bene said:
Yes, imagine that. And imagine Tucker Carlson not wishing to bite the hand that feeds him.
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Kind of like NPR firing Juan Williams and threatening the lady (name escapes me now) for appearing on Fox News Sunday, afraid that Obama and Jarrett might not like how the government's funding of public broadcasting is being spent on fraternizers with the enemy.
 
Hatuey said:
Yeah, instead of doing what he did, he should have called Michelle Obama a cast member of Planet of the Apes and kept his job. Weren't you outraged when Univision determined what could and couldn't be said on their channel?
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Huh?

Try to stay with one story OK?

What was done happens every damn day in the news business, I know I have spiked a few stories myself, and reporters and columnists are ALWAYS outraged.

In the end, the comparison is not an off-the-cuff stupid remark, but CNN, where the OWNER banned coverage of the Benghazi hearings...you know, that "nothing there" that is still there...?
 

Carlson didn't fire the columnist - he quit. But be sure that the liberal talking points will have him fired and burned at the stake before the day is out.
 

Here's a profile of your source: News Corpse's Profile
 
CanadaJohn said:
Imagine - the owner of a website determining what can and can't be posted on his site. That never happens anywhere else. Maybe he could post his column here on DP?
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All that he has to do is sign up and start posting.
 

And again, the Daily Caller didn't fire the columnist - he quit. The Daily Caller pulled down a column he authored and posted that they felt didn't match their editorial agenda.

The two situations are totally different. Had the Daily Caller actually fired this columnist, I'd have the same concerns as in the Univison situation. I presume this column is in no way as objectionable as the Univision comments, but I haven't read the column so I don't know.

So, again, nice deflection but :bs
 


I have always understood clearly that the station that pays you is off limits. There is no point nor need to go there. He quit because his ego got the better of him, it happens a lot. It used to be part of the way the weak of heart get weeded out, egos that big are a danger to the profession, or were the "profession" doesn't exist in the US much anymore.

It has always been up to the owners what goes to air, they invested millions in the license. The good ones let the pro's decide what goes and what dies, and in this case a questionable opinion of worker about his employer was spiked.

So. What.

If people want to whine about where they work, go to a bar and find another job.
 
CanadaJohn said:
And again, the Daily Caller didn't fire the columnist - he quit. The Daily Caller pulled down a column he authored and posted that they felt didn't match their editorial agenda.
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Entirely within their right. Just as Univision was. Or does Univision not have the right to take executive action if it doesn't like what its employee is doing? C'man CJ. Be consistent.
 
Fearandloathing said:
What was done happens every damn day in the news business, I know I have spiked a few stories myself, and reporters and columnists are ALWAYS outraged.
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Maybe you need to explain what editors do for a living.
 



I don't believe that anyone asked you. But don't let that stop you.
 
Different medium, but musicians don't ever seem to ask the sound engineer to turn down their monitors.
 
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