Tucker Carlson lashes out at big news companies and plants billboards at HQs of NYTimes, CNN, MSNBC and the Washington Post with ‘corporate media is dead’ emblazoned, as he launches his OWN streaming service
He's angry as hell, and he's not going to take it anymore!
No, we're not talking about “Network's” Howard Beale, but ousted Fox News broadcaster Tucker Carlson, who is heading into the “corporate media” days after launching his own streaming platform for exclusive content.
“They are doomed,” Carlson told DailyMail.com in an exclusive interview yesterday.
“And on some level they know they're doomed, and that's why they're hysterical. “The era of dominance by a few big media companies, the era of total control of all information by nine people, that's over,” Tucker said.
And to make sure the message was clear, he organized mobile billboard trucks with his likeness on the sides, emblazoned with the text “corporate media is dead,” parked outside the headquarters of MSNBC, CNN, The Washington Post and The New York Times in Washington and Manhattan.
Fans are encouraged to sign up on his site for $72 per year to access the “exclusive content” with a “limited time offer” to “become a founder.”
The former host of Tucker Carlson Tonight was fired shortly after Fox settled a $1.6 billion lawsuit with Dominion and the feisty broadcaster used his announcement to target several networks and news outlets — warning that they were “dying ' are.
Tucker, 54, told DailyMail.com: 'It's important. “We don't do it out of cruelty and we hope we don't rub this in anyone's face or make the people who still work there feel bad, but they are doomed.”
In an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com, Tucker Carlson said top news organizations are 'dying' and claimed 'they know they are doomed'
Carlson can be compared to “Network's” Howard Beale, who is given two weeks' notice due to poor ratings and instead of going out quietly, rails against TV networks
The former Fox News host had trucks with signs reading “corporate media is dead” hanging outside the headquarters of major media companies on Thursday
Digital billboards go around New York to promote the TCN network. One billboard was placed in front of The New York Times building in Manhattan
Before his time at Fox, Carlson expressed his conservative opinions on CNN shows. His mobile billboard was seen outside the CNN offices today
'It was done because they abused their monopoly. You need new institutions to fill the smoking crater of lying news organizations.”
And by new settings he is referring to his own subscription service called The Tucker Carlson Network.
It comes seven months after he was fired from Fox News, days after the network was forced to pay out $787 million in the Dominion defamation lawsuit.
Since then, Carlson has been uploading his interviews with divisive figures like Andrew Tate and Viktor Orban to X – formerly known as Twitter.
Carlson then criticized the New York Times, saying the organization “has no moral authority left” and believes NBC News will be dead in ten years.
He said it makes him “furious” that the media has lied to the public and “refuses to admit it,” adding: “I've done a lot of things wrong in my life, but I'm trying to admit it – that is not true. diminish me to admit it.'
However, the ex-Fox employee did praise the NYTimes for apologizing in 2004 for some of its reporting on the Iraq War and Saddam Hussein.
But he believes they are now “speaking to a small audience of narcissists who have no self-awareness.”
“They have all lied, and they have been caught lying repeatedly, and they never apologize for it,” he added. 'And if you do that often enough, your audience won't believe you.
'All interesting conversations take place in independent media. There hasn't been an interesting or true thought expressed on the Today Show in a generation. And everyone knows that.
“When they die, which will happen soon, I will not mourn their passing. They deserve everything that happens to them.'
Carlson, 54, announced this week that he will launch his own $72-a-year streaming platform called The Tucker Carlson Network.
Fans are encouraged to sign up on his site for $72 per year to access the “exclusive content” with a “limited time offer” to “become a founder.” The billboards can be seen in front of the Washington Monument
“The era of dominance by a few big media companies, the era of total control of all information by nine people, that's over,” Tucker said. A billboard was pictured in front of The Washington Post headquarters on Thursday
Carlson was fired from Fox in the wake of the Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit, in which the company sued the broadcaster for $1.6 billion for defamation.
Dominion claimed that hosts like Carlson knew then-President Trump's election fraud claims were untrue, but pressed them for ratings.
They settled at the eleventh hour for $787 million, narrowly avoiding an embarrassing and highly publicized trial in which Carlson and other presenters would likely have been called as witnesses.
Carlson was not told at the time why he was being forced out, but Fox CEO Suzanne Scott reportedly said the decision was made “from the top down.”
Several insiders have claimed it was News Corp boss Rupert Murdoch who made the decision, with Carlson opening up about his departure to DailyMail.com.
Speaking to DailyMail.com, he said: 'Fox News has done a lot for me and given me a platform for 14 years.
'They were kind to me, the Murdochs were kind to me every minute I worked there, and not once did they tell me what to think or say. Not once were they anything but polite to me.
'I will always appreciate that. And I don't care what happens next. There are people there that I think have treated me badly or that I don't respect or whatever, but I don't want to complain about it.
“At the end of the day I'm a lot happier and I'm just grateful for the experience and I'm not going to attack them. I'm glad I'm doing this.'
Carlson joined Fox in 2009 as a contributor. In 2016, he got his own show on the network and quickly became the most watched host.
Since his firing, Carlson has been hosting his shows on X, with recent episodes receiving hundreds of millions of views.
His Fox show, Tucker Carlson Tonight, drew 3.5 million viewers every night, but in recent years it has been called the “raciest show on cable.”
Then a series of controversies, including the Dominion's claims and Carlson's own comments about the January 6 riots, brought him increasingly into hot water.
He admitted that he knew his time there wouldn't end with a “tearful farewell” to his viewers with one final show, adding that “the end will come quickly and without warning.”
Carlson joined Fox as a contributor in 2009, after previously voicing his conservative opinions on CNN shows.
He got his own show on the network in 2016 and quickly became its most-watched host, cementing his own fan base and reputation for taking some of the most extreme, far-right positions on cable news.