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The Fall of Tucker Carlson, and the Making of Candace Owens

2023/4/28
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Tucker Carlson's journey from a magazine journalist to a prominent right-wing TV host is discussed, highlighting his transformation and the evolution of his show's format and content.

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Once a Beltway neoconservative, Tucker Carlson came to embody the angry, forgotten white man—railing at “the élites” and propagating racist conspiracy theories and the lie of the stolen election. “Unlike a lot of his colleagues at Fox News, he made news, he set the agenda,” Kelefa Sanneh, who wrote about Carlson in 2017), says. “People were wondering, What is Tucker going to be saying tonight?” Sanneh joins Andrew Marantz) and David Remnick to discuss Carlson’s demise, and what comes next. And Clare Malone reports on Candace Owens), the powerful right-wing influencer and provocateur who’s set her sights on the future of right-wing media—and on a younger and more female audience than that of Fox News.