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Chamath: Trump's early COVID-19 messaging degraded CDC, HHS, and media responses
“Trump had to draw a line in the sand, which is, I'm not going to threaten my presidency, and so he had to downplay it, and he had to sort of, you know puff up his chest a little bit, and that kind of rhetoric from the president of the United States, whether yo…”
Friedberg: Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC are losing their audiences rapidly
“Fox News is losing an audience. CNN is losing an audience. MSNBC is losing an audience. I mean, their audiences are gone. Like, they're just vaporizing right now.”
Fox News never gave Tucker Carlson an official reason for his firing
“I was never told I can only speculate.”
Carlson: Fox News executives never directly instructed him not to say something
“I personally never had a single person say to me, don't say this, That I recall, I haven't thought about it too much, but that certainly, I was there 14 years, and I didn't have that experience regularly, or at all, really, that I can remember”
Chamath: Fox settlement will embolden more defamation lawsuits against media companies
“This is going to embolden a lot of people to take matters into their own hands and sue some of these media companies if the lie is egregious enough, and it negatively impacts them enough.”
Sacks predicts Fox News will not be held liable in Dominion lawsuit
“I think this would be a better world if Fox were liable, but I don't think they're going to be because that's not the legal standard.”
Sacks: Fox News lacks the cultural power to destroy anyone's career
“They don't have the cultural power to destroy anyone.”
Sacks predicts Trump will launch a Fox News competitor and become GOP kingmaker
“I think he will become a kingmaker Republican politics. He will launch a competitor to Fox news, but it will also be Fox news hybridized with a grassroots movement like the tea party.”
Sacks predicts Fox News will lose viewership if liberal heirs take over
“Now if, you know, let's say the more liberal members of the family like James take over and change the content and the programming to serve their own political views, they're going to lose viewership. They're going to lose their audience.”
Sachs: Fox News ratings cratered after firing Tucker Carlson
“Their ratings really cratered in the wake of making this change.”
Tucker Carlson says he was not angry about Fox News firing
“I wasn't that mad about it, actually, because I know the rules of that particular business, which are really harsh, and I've been in it, you know, my whole life, and so I've seen a lot of people as talented or more talented than I meet bad ends, And in, you kn…”
Khanna faces staggering criticism from Democrats for appearing on All-In
“The amount of criticism that I have gotten for, like, going on Fox News, or even coming to the All In podcast. I mean, look, try inviting some of my Democratic colleagues. It is staggering.”
Calacanis: Fox News faces $2.7B lawsuit trial in 2025
“They're facing an even bigger lawsuit, a 2.7 billion dollar lawsuit With another election technology company that will happen in 20, 25.”