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Tucker Carlson

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Dylan Byers • July 19, 2024

Remembrance of R.N.C.s Past

News and notes on the conservative media scene, and its metaphorical resonance, in Milwaukee and beyond.
Tara Palmeri • June 20, 2024
Dial M for Murdoch
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Inside the game of telephone surrounding Donald Trump, on the precipice of locking in his vice presidential pick, as everyone from Sean Hannity to Fox émigré Tucker Carlson to Rupert Murdoch, himself, attempts to put their finger on the scale.
Tina Nguyen • May 1, 2024
A Far Right Exodus on Israel
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Yes, the majority of the party is still fervently aligned with Netanyahu and his war in Gaza. But a growing number of House lawmakers, bolstered by the isolationist (and occasionally antisemitic) far right, are beginning to view Israel more as a bargaining chip than a sacred cow.
I wasn’t on the Tucker love/hate spectrum, myself, but as someone who’d worked for him and then moved on to more “mainstream” political reporting jobs at Vanity Fair, Politico and then Puck, I was fascinated with his metamorphosis.
Tina Nguyen • January 4, 2024
Tucker in the Rye
On the evolution of Tucker Carlson, from his startup origins to Fox News exile and his decision to go solo. Adapted from the forthcoming book ‘The MAGA Diaries.’
Peter Hamby • December 26, 2023
God and Man and MAGA
In conversation with Tina Nguyen, author of ‘The MAGA Diaries,’ about the evolution of the modern conservative media machine, from Milton and Mises to Tucker and Trump.
Most media executives see an obvious ceiling to Tucker’s ambitions, with Beck, Megyn, and O’Reilly providing ample evidence of the limits to going it alone in the subscription-based creator economy.
Dylan Byers • December 13, 2023
The Tucker Rule
TCN, Tucker’s new $9-a-month streaming service, may portend the limits of the direct-to-consumer media economy—and suggest whether there is, indeed, life after cable stardom.
The Rockbridge Network was co-founded by J.D. Vance and Chris Buskirk, the publisher of the pro-Trump journal American Greatness, in 2019.
Theodore Schleifer • October 17, 2023
Rockbridge Over Troubled Waters
The secretive, Trump-friendly, Silicon Valley-inflected donor alliance is less interested in the Republican primary than in redpilling techies into MAGA populism, hyping Tucker’s new mediaco, and moving millions to the G.O.P. grassroots—the latest effort to replace the Koch-era coalition with something younger and edgier.
Matt Gaetz promised to start “every single day in Congress with the prayer, the pledge and the motion to vacate,” unless Kevin McCarthy meets his alleged commitments.
Tina Nguyen • September 13, 2023
Tucker’s World Tour & Gaetzgate
News and notes on Vivek’s primary conundrum, Carlson’s journey to the Middle East, and McCarthy’s barbarians at the gates.
Eriq Gardner • July 31, 2023
Trump Has Subpoenaed Fox News for Tucker’s Unaired Jan. 6 Interview
The former president is demanding the network turn over footage and communications that he could use to defend himself against a civil lawsuit from police officers who blame him for the Capitol riot.
Dylan Byers • June 28, 2023
Tucker’s New Mediaco
Life inside the Fox News bunker, the Watters-Hannity-Gutfeld Cerberus, and news on Tucker Carlson’s new media ambitions.