First off, make no mistake: Carlson still gets the views....
The video, up for a day and a half, has over 100 million views. At the point Teh's column went up, it was it was at 11.2 million, already much more than he had on Fox News (around 2 million, which was about twice what Fox has without him).
But enough about numbers! Teh continues with her theory that Carlson is nothing without Fox News:
Yes, he did not choose — perhaps because he could not achieve — the bright lights and graphics typical of cable news.
There aren't any flashy chyrons or quick cuts.
What's the argument that he should have tried — that it wouldn't also have been "sad" to go independent and still strain after the "cable news" look?
And Carlson — stripped down, in his little wood-filled cabin — for once, looks vulnerable.
"It's wild to see what a fish out of water he is on the internet: no jump cuts, no background music, no catchy thumbnail or video title. Not sure how he's going to stack up against even an average streamer or youtuber," the journalist Taylor Lorenz tweeted....
Oh! It's Taylor Lorenz's opinion! She wouldn't like Tucker Carlson in any environment. But she's just "not sure" how he'll do without all the cable-news clutter flashing at the (presumably idiotic) viewer. Me, I don't watch cable news at all, because I can't tolerate the flashing lights and ever-changing chyronic natterings (though I do enjoy seeing this junk satirized on the TV show "Succession").
Teh sums up:
Carlson is the new kid on the streaming block.... His new competition includes Steve Bannon, ranting from his "War Room." The white supremacist and onetime Kanye West associate Nick Fuentes and his hateful, anti-Semitic rants. Dan Bongino, of "Unfiltered" fame. And, of course, Alex Jones, who screams about gay frogs while selling snake oil dietary supplements. And right now, Carlson's losing.
Is he? She pronounced him "losing" before his numbers shot up from 10 million to 100 million. We'll see what happens. Meantime, isn't cable TV losing? Its numbers weren't that high in the first place. 2 million. And now they're down a third.
As for me, I hope people prefer a naturally lit face in a home-like interior over the garishly overlit artificial environment that cable-news has been pushing at us for so many woeful years.
ADDED: An example of the chyrons in the background of the TV show "Succession": In the opening credits sequence for Season 2, we briefly see "'Gender fluid illegals may be entering the country 'twice'," "Supreme Court Justice wants to create a 'Supremer' Court" and "Is 'sweetcheeks' hate speech now?"
Posts
83 comments:
Written for people who did not watch, in an attempt to persuade them not to watch.
Talk about “sad” attempts.
Business Insider is a hack progressive rag founded by Henry Blodgett. Blodgett got banned from the securities industry for lying to customers during the 1999-21 tech bubble.
I, also, do not watch cable or network news. My only exposure to Tucker Carlson has been from clips posted to websites. And yet, I very much admired him! When he aired the January 6 footage that everyone else was trying to suppress, he seemed like the American media's last honest journalist. I eagerly tuned in to his pilot Twitter episode.
But I have to say, that show rapidly disappointed me, and knocked him a few rungs lower in my estimation, when he pushed that scurrilous false "quote" from Lindsay Graham ("Russians are dying, that’s the best money we’ve ever spent"). I kept waiting for Tucker to say something like "The only problem is, Graham never said that. This video was crudely edited by Russians to spread a fake quote..." until I got so annoyed that I stopped watching.
Are there accurate stats of actual views? I don't think we know comparable numbers yet.
(OT. I think "chyronic natterings" once opened for Talking Heads)
So Carleson garners over 100 millions views on his first ten minute twitter broadcast which is greater than the entire view or readership of Cheryl Teh's entire career. It is rich how utterly deluded the left are and especially the heads who force "journalists" like Teh to write this dribble.
The article is screaming with refusing to define the metrics to measure success.
I go to Rush Limbaugh, He was a failure according to media "experts". A National AM radio show during one of the most coveted AM radio time slots, over noon lunchtime, When all the local people are tuning in.....to catch the local news. Not some National talking head.
Or maybe you prefer to judge success by, Matt Drudge, Andrew Breitebart, Or Air America.
Maybe Joe Rogen, or Ann Althouse. The later an unknown conservative Constitutional Law Professor Emeritus, who blogs from one of those flyover states. phn
So until you have the guts to share you metric to measure success....its nothing but still more propaganda in service of advancing a phony narrative.
This is a war of retrenchment for an army (establishment media) that knows it will lose in the long run. They want just one more paycheck, one more election of a favorable puppet government, just one more win...
Consider the withdrawal of the German/Italian forces as the US moved up the Italian peninsula in WWII. Dig a trench. Fight until there's an invader breakthrough. Move back 10 miles to another trench. Fight until there's another invader breakthrough. Move back 10 miles. Repeat.
Carlson’s appeal was never the fancy graphics, it was his thoughtful commentary, so often at odds with the current narrative.
Reports of Tucker's death are premature.
They need cable to work for the propaganda to work so yes, this is one of soon to be many please don’t look stories.
"You are nothing with me. Nothing!" Cheryl screamed as she stepped towards Tucker. He could see a thin lick spittle line of Nielsen ratings fall out of the side of her mouth towards the carpet as she spoke.
"You can't make it on your own! Who kept you in flash chyrons and quick cuts? Who made sure you always had nice background music and pretty video titles?"
"Who -", she reached her finger out and flicked his neckwear, "who kept you well-stocked with your pretty little bow ties to wear?"
As Cheryl was now up in his grill, her could smell it on her. It was on her breath, all over her clothes. It was the smell of Teh Swamp.
"Go to that cheap little place run by that skeevy African American. It's not as nice as here. It's been a dump since he took over. You'll see!"
Tucker kept his calm through the tirade. He had already made his peace with the fact that it was over between them, even if she couldn't. He wordlessly picked up his things and went out the door.
I wish Tucker well, but yesterday I was reminded of Mark Steyn. Remember him? He was cancelled way before anyone else and never recovered. He tried a little show out of NH that failed. It was his own studio, his own broadcast. Without the big guys -- ugh -- he couldn't translate his genius into eyeballs.
“ The later an unknown conservative Constitutional Law Professor Emeritus, who blogs from one of those flyover states.”
I’ve been hanging around here a long time. So I can confidently say, “Nope.”
Who is Cheryl Teh? Oh, Cheryl is a reporter from Insiders Singapore office. Tucker is such a failure that news of his failure has to come from Singapore?
That must be why Fox wants to sue him for constitutionally protected private speech.on a platform they don't control.
The MSM is dead. Everyone's just waiting for a reichstag fire at this point. Bring marshmallows.
Rocco: Excellent and hilarious!
When there’s no price to pay for getting something wrong, there’s no incentive for getting it right.
It’s going to be interesting to see if Fox goes ahead and takes Tucker to court for “violating his contract”.
We will finally get to find out why they want to kill the goose that regularly laid golden eggs.
It was a successful launch, certainly in comparison to Bill O’Reilly, Fox News’s last fired leading show person to go to podcasting. But 100 million views would be about 4 times the previous most-watched video on Twitter. Should we be suspicious that a large percentage of those views were from Russian bot farms?
People who value their own judgment, know the importance of a contrarian view.
So, a lack of viewership is not necessarily the metric I look for when deciding what to pay attention to.
Kate--Steyn had a couple of heart attacks (I think) and hasn't been the same.
He was one of the best, but now he mostly recycles his own stuff on his pay-to-view site.
A shame.
Tucker, that name makes me think of Target. As in, Tucker, Tuck, tuck-friendly bathing suits.
It doesn't really. I'm just trying to create synergy (synergies?).
Tucker Carlson's Wikipedia page is interesting. For example, it states that after college (he went to Trinity in CT), Tucker applied to join the CIA but his application was rejected. I wonder why. Too many privileged white men had already applied that year?
That is some weak stuff. Perhaps she wasn't aware, but Tucker is rich. Obviously, he could have had all of those things if he wanted them. He chose not to. Maybe we need some time to settle out whether this was the correct choice, but her suggestion that he lost access to them is absurd.
This article almost could have been written (probably was written) weeks ago, with a few details plugged in at press time to make it seem timely. But sure, let's judge Carlson's twitter show a failure before it gets started. If she's lucky, she'll be right and can milk it for years. If she's not lucky, her audience won't care. What matters is that she betrayed her professional ethics for a good cause.
Sour grapes. And I can see the dribble emanating from her lips. (Full disclosure: Except for snippets on blogs and such, I have never watched a full Mr. Carlson episode. Might be my ADHD, might be my dislike of political shows that get my ire up. But I have never HEARD of that lady.)
MarcusB. THEOLDMAN
Kate said...I wish Tucker well, but yesterday I was reminded of Mark Steyn. Remember him?
When I think Mark Steyn, I think Never Trumper. He chose to make his audience more selective.
And perhaps ordinary viewers — the ones that elitist Cheryl Teh despises so much — didn’t much care about flashy chyrons? My wife stopped watching Fox News after Tucker’s abrupt departure. Her and 1 million other people who don’t like being lied to.
Teh truth is that teh writer is teh usual braying, partisan jackass.
How can you tell if a cable news outlet is lying?
Its chyron is moving.
1. Didn't even notice the background.
2. Fox New is nothing wihtout Tucker.
3. Some of Tucker's chyron's were pretty funny, too. Just one level below Succession. https://www.ebaumsworld.com/pictures/the-best-worst-tucker-carlson-chyrons-in-honor-of-him-being-fired-by-fox-news/87388856/
Rocco @ 6:12: Excellent. I could hear the soap opera soundtrack in the background!
How can I take seriously a columnist whose name keeps getting corrected to "the" by Spell Check every time I type it?
And Carlson — stripped down, in his little wood-filled cabin — for once, looks vulnerable.
Life during wartime.
The news business is changing radically. Tucker is meeting the audience where they went. Now that he’s pulling in Joe Rogan type numbers the DNC-Media complex is panicking. For one of them (whom I never heard of) to DEFEND Fox is stunning, but so revealing that it is happening after they’ve lost half their viewers. Foxnation (streaming) is a joke and the cable channel is dying off like CNN. The change of ownership that coincided with the Trump chemical reaction that broke so many former journalists has ruined Fox News Channel.
Tucker Carlson isn't Mark Steyn. Since being given the bum's rush out of his network chair, he's done precisely 3 short, public messages on Twitter, in about 1½ months.
#1: 86 million views
#2: 135 million views
#3: 102 million views, and still counting.
Three points ain't a lot, but it does seem to establish that the trajectory is not downward, especially if point zero is his last broadcast at Fox.
100 Million views? That's nothing, if you ain't got the chyrons. I mean Teh Chyrons.
Cheryl who?
Fox's lawyers:
"Pursuant to the terms of the Agreement, Mr. Carlson’s 'services shall be completely exclusive to Fox.'"
Carlson is "prohibited from rendering services of any type whatsoever, whether 'over the internet via streaming or similar distribution, or other digital distribution whether now known or hereafter devised.'"
Wow. Did he 'render services' if he's paying for a Twitter blue check mark, and then uses Twitter to document his opinions? What service did he render, and to whom?
Unfortunately, Fox can easily swamp him with lawfare, no matter how many millions Carlson brings to the table. I guess I'll watch for this next. The Tim Cast was pointing out that this new 'sidelining' technique has also recently been applied to James O'Keefe, from Veritas.
If I were Tucker, I would start organizing for a Twitter-based press team to follow him around and catch every word. If it goes to trial, Carlson can hold multiple daily Press Briefings, with a monologue for every single one.
Cheryl Teh? How can you trust a journalist whose name looks like a transliteration of "The"? The what? Cheryl The ????
Cheryl is lying to you. 100 million views! That is more than The View gets by a lot. Take that, Cheryl The!
I found Tucker's commentary inadequate. Did he really call Zelenskyy "sweaty" and "rat-like"? That was bad. He needs an editor to keep him from making mistakes like that.
But Tucker will be back and better than ever with bright lights and in-depth interviews. He is just getting started. Cheryl Teh will continue on, getting $150 per article from Business insider and working women's sportswear at Macy's during the day.
Tucker is cultivating an exile authenticity.
Pretty harsh commentary coming from a journalist whose last name is a typo.
This also reinforces what Althouse said yesterday about the news “flow” and paucity of things worth blogging. The “news” has been replaced by Pseudo Events that look and sound like news but are not. Most of the replacement has been substitution of opinion for factual reporting but then most “reports” now are just press releases rewritten as conflict: then the parade of talking heads opining on the press release. On most cable it’s a stacked panel of leftists ganging up on the centrist playing the role of token conservative. On Fox the formula was reversed but just as lame.
Everything is a pseudo debate about minutiae and all the energy is there. There’s no effort to dig up facts and break news or put historic changes in context. Even the NYT seems generally uninterested in finding facts to report. That’s why Althouse’s usual sources have not provided her interesting material. They have made news uninteresting because they are in the obscure and misdirect business now not the “news” business.
At least when Trump barrels into a butthurt seethe about someone, there's usually humor involved. Have these journalists ever heard about a spoonful of sugar helping the medicine go down?
Steyn is thriving despite recent health problems and losing the great Kathy Shaidle to cancer. His literary, music, and performance reviews do not distract from his vast political output. He's the most educated, suave, and courageous contrarian of our age, and he does this while fending off constant lawsuits from leftists and grifters like Glenn Beck, all from reader subscriptions and in a home theater.
Althouse has remained a productive and incisive blogger by focusing on ideas, not visual bells and whistles.
Drudge drove more traffic than any newspaper or news station for a decade using two employees and a barebones website.
CNN is tanking, as is Fox, and the prestige papers subsist on sleazy foreign and domestic donors like Carlos Slim and Amazon.
Public radio and television have paywalls, Maoist millionaire hosts, idiot DEI partisan ideologues, and otherwise get by on our tax dollars and donations from idiots who never look at their financials before donating. Turkmenistan is more transparent.
I admire those who learn to not trust big donors and go to small donor models and independent platforms -- Bari Weiss, Glenn Greenwald, Steyn, and Tucker Carlson.
Carlson is "prohibited from rendering services of any type whatsoever, whether 'over the internet via streaming or similar distribution, or other digital distribution whether now known or hereafter devised.'"
You cannot contract away your rights. There is a 'right to earn a living'. There is a large body of law concerning non competes. The ones used by companies I worked with, were very defined, and covered specifics of geography, entities, customers, employees. And TIME.
If your quote is the entire pertinent substance, it will never make past initial pre trial filings. A Non=compete so broad is less effective than no NDA at all. There is an issue of identity. Is the contract with Tucker, or his company. Tucker did not work for FOX. He owned and produced, Tucker Carlson Tonight. Fox bought the Show from Tucker company. This goes to who would be liable in a settlement. And if the Tucker Corp, has any money.
To me the wildly broad Non-compete, is Tuckers get out of jail free card.
fox is little but anyything without tucker,
You know, it really is time for a "Radio Free America". On AM radio. 24x7. Operated offshore and jam-resistant.
Kate: I do remember Mark Steyn. It seemed like he was cranking out at least two hilarious articles a week back in the 2000s. He should have stuck with writing. It was much better than his TV appearances.
Tucker's cabin monologue was no different from his regular monologues. I'm not sure what fast cuts she's talking about. I don't need to see a waving American flag in the background to pay attention.
At one point I got so annoyed at the clutter at the bottom of TV Cable shows, I would blank out the screen. Its not just obnoxious to have a scroll with words flashing on the screen, the scroll would often be biased or slanted. It was the TV producers editoralizing over a guest.
This is ONE of many reasons why I stopped watching cable TV, except for Tucker, and even him I only watched after the show hit youtube or the internet.
Its amazing to go back to an old MTP video from the 60s where the reporters would just ask a "Policy maker" questions, let him answer, and then maybe ask a followup up. Now, the News hosts feel the need to CONTROL what we hear from our own Goddamn represenatives.
So if a guest is Republican or some un-PC Democrat, we get "Debates", slanted background pieces, endless gotcha questions, loaded Press discussion panels, and interruptions. Not to mention the fact that certain topics and issues are verboten and cannot be discussed. If its a liberal/left Democrat its just softball questions. But still pushing the party line.
The whole thing has turned into some weird liberal/left propaganda machine, like something out of 1984. A press for a bannana republic. A Soviet bananna republic.
My one takeaway:
Taylor Lorenz is still employed?
I have seen this stream but the "cabin" description sounds like Tucker's home studio from which he recorded his 'Fox Nation' show. Always seemed a bit incongruent for him, but it was choices he made at his peak on Fox.
Cheryl Teh's story is trifling and silly. But... I went back and rewatched Tucker's debut, and it became more clear to me that it was full of hyperbolic insults and dubious claims stated as truth. The thing Tucker needs is a sounding board that he has the humility to respect. He needs a well informed editor. And a more genial attitude.
I want him to succeed, but not with garbage content.
He needs to look higher, the democrats became the party of war under Obama. He basically destroyed libya, syria, egypt and ran OUT of cruise missiles/drones.
Obama, the only nobel peace prize winner with more deaths on his hands than Arafat.
Blogger Kate said...
I wish Tucker well, but yesterday I was reminded of Mark Steyn. Remember him? He was cancelled way before anyone else and never recovered. He tried a little show out of NH that failed. It was his own studio, his own broadcast. Without the big guys -- ugh -- he couldn't translate his genius into eyeballs.
Mark didn't have Elon Musk wanting to expand twitter.
Thanks, everybody, for the Steyn updates. When he would sit in for Rush I would always listen. One of the fastest wits, on a par with Carson or Leno. I hadn't heard of his health problems.
Twitter is my go to source for breaking news. I haven't had cable for decades, never missed it. I did watch Tucker's monologues and other specials sometimes on the youtube. Would have watched it on rumble if they had their act together.
A press for a banana republic, a marxist, communist republic.
Tucker could not be more wrong about Ukraine, but OTH he is a hero for airing the January 6 tapes that got Buffalo Guy out of y he gulag.
However you feel about Carlson, this article has a Baghdad Bob quality to it.
Carlson's influence is much larger now, partly because of the effort taken to silence him. People like Teh appear to be writing wishful thinking.
However, she would have been correct had Musk never purchased Twitter- there really wasn't a platform from which Carlsen could have continued prior to that purchase. Twitter before Musk would never have allowed him to air that monologue the other day.
I watched the initial clip and. . . .I dunno, it went off the rails when he started in on the "whistleblower" saying we totally had alien spaceships and such. TuCa seemed to take him at his word even though this person is a "former intelligence officer". I mean. . . .huh?
This was written by someone who appears to have never watched Tucker Carlson.
And I seriously doubt that Teh even watched the Tucker video. One thing I have noticed over the years is that people on the left rarely if ever watch the speeches/videos of their political opponents.
@Kate & boatbuilder – correct; Mark Steyn had a couple of heart attacks in close succession; I do believe it was fully the result of getting a hot batch of the jab. New Hampshire, still more red than the other New England states, was likely a target. Add to that the stress of dealing with his long running lawsuit with the Hockey Stick climate “scientist” fraud.
@Tina Trent: Thank you for the update on Steyn. I am with you in your opinion of him. He produces a weekly 30 min program for an internet radio site called Serenade Radio where he delves into the back story of a specific song or composer and really fills in the blanks. If you're a music history nerd these are really amazing. They're mainly songs from the Great American Songbook or Tin Pan Alley.
As for Tucker, keep in mind he’s from a CIA family, and he likely knows a whole lot more than his minders will let him reveal. While he’s been a good thing for moving the Overton Window, he’s still one of Them.
Tucker wants Fox to keep paying him. He should end the relationship if he wants to work away from Fox.
Should we be suspicious that a large percentage of those views were from Russian bot farms?
Hilarious. Lefty, you never disappoint.
Rocco, that's fantastic.
It's interesting that the new TC gets criticized for not having enough corporate plastic flashiness. If that's not a self-own on the part of the writer, I've never seen one.
This Big Picture issue of the media changing the way it does "news" is rich with examples in current events. Just for fun I had both Fox and Newsmax (which has s surprisingly high number of former Fox employees on-air) this morning and both spent an inordinate (IMO) amount of time talking about Canadian smoke for the second day in a row. And as I heard droning soundbites from Schumer and saw tweets from AOC I realized one of the dogs that never bark is "Democrats pounce."
Of course "Republicans pounce" and its variants are a staple of headline writers everywhere. They are unable to report any Democrat boo-boos without employing a version of the pounce headline. And today would be a perfect day for D version of that meme if there were any symmetry anywhere in the "news" universe ever, but there isn't. So today look in vain for any stories about Democrats pouncing on the Canadian smoke simply to promote their Global Warming scam. Nope. Even Fox and Newsmax present those clowns as simply making statements and "tying" the air quality to the big all-purpose GW scam. Tying. Not pouncing or seizing or thrusting. Nope. It is the dog that doesn't bark and the cat that doesn't pounce.
One in a million data points tracking the news business descent into the infotainment business. Unfortunately for Art, the entertainment business also thought its mission was to morph into the infotainment business. Sad. Someone should pounce on that. We need a respite from politics. So we the public have un-seized Bud Light, de-pounced ourselves from Target, perhaps unthrusted ourselves from Dodger Stadium even. Its all we can do to fight back against the wokertainment industry that is threatening to supplant the infotainment mother ship.
Dave Begley said...
"Business Insider is a hack progressive rag founded by Henry Blodgett. Blodgett got banned from the securities industry for lying to customers during the 1999-21 tech bubble."
----------------
Since I live in Iowa, first in the nation caucus state, I receive a lot of junk political mailings. This week I received 2 campaign mailings from Make America Great Again PAC, saying only negative things about DeSantis and nothing positive about Trump. Every quote attacking DeSantis came from Business Insider.
We can only hope that his "best"days are behind him. His uninformed opinions are heinous. He, though he purports to be a man of the people, is just as entitled as the entitled he slams. Duality, thy name is Tuckums.
Vicki from Pasadena
As a Mark Steyn Club member (first day!), I'm with Tina Trent here. Steyn is writing very nearly as much as ever, heart attacks notwithstanding, and keeping up his humor, too. (Check out The Prisoner of Windsor, now available in book form--it was originally an audio-only serial--for an extended, hilarious instance.)
He does have a bit of a problem keeping positions, though. And being sued.
Steyn had a decent show on GBnews until he got "cancelled" for something recently.
I think his on camera is unique, interesting and often witty.
He had a couple heart attacks recently and has been struggling a bit.
Kate said...
"I wish Tucker well, but yesterday I was reminded of Mark Steyn. Remember him? He was cancelled way before anyone else and never recovered. He tried a little show out of NH that failed. It was his own studio, his own broadcast. Without the big guys -- ugh -- he couldn't translate his genius into eyeballs."
Steyn is still active, but in the UK where he has/had tV shows on various networks. The lefties over there are doing their best to deny him a platform, just as they did here.
He's also easily found at his Mark Steyn Club site on YouTube and the 'net.
https://www.youtube.com/@MarkSteynShow
Was his cancellation prompted by a democratic collusion and settlement of the lawsuit?
though he purports to be a man of the people
No Vicki that's a leftist theme without a citation. Do you examples of this famous claim from Tucker? And who in hell anywhere says "I'm a man of the people" anyway? That's just more lefty bubble talk. Ironically the very thing that drove him from Fox was lefty bubble talk! Now y'all made him stronger LOL. Five-thousand per cent increase in audience is a big deal. You lefties should be proud of making him a "man of the people" for us.
Teh is giving off a "nobody goes there, it's too crowded" vibe.
walter,
Yeah, the GBNews kerfuffle is one of the things I'm talking about. He was run off the air by Ofcom (the Office of Communication! Anyone reminded of, say, miniluv?), and has sued them with (I think) ample cause. But he's pugnacious whenever challenged, and he's been crowing over the viewership drop since he left GBNews in a display that struck me as a bit unseemly. Before that it was Cary Katz. Before that, I forget. But he may just be difficult to work with. Though it doesn't seem to have affected the people who do work with him--the late Kathy Shaidle, Laura Rosen Cohen, Tal Bachman, Andrew Lawton, Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney, &c.
The Ofcom mess had to do with his hosting other people who had suffered, or claimed to have suffered, harms from various COVID-19 vaccines. Despite the evidence being almost entirely from UK Government sources, it was declared officially un-airable on UK media. This is not cool. Nor is Michael Mann's vindictive lawsuit against him, which has so far taken up nearly a decade. One of his much-repeated lines is "The process is the punishment." With Mann, that is certainly true; when news broke of Steyn's first heart attack, Mann lost no time in demanding he appear in DC court immediately, whereas Steyn was in a hospital bed in France. Bleh.
I was reminded of Mark Steyn. Remember him?
Is his lawsuit with Michael Mann still going on?
Itz da little ol’ lady from Pasadena!
Blogger Readering -- what makes you think that Fox wants to stop paying TC. What they did, or tried to do (we'll see) is to silence him by keeping him on the payroll doing nothing for the viewing public.
MarcusB. THEOLDMAN
If he needs more production value, Tucker build a survival reality show around his monologue out there in the Maine woods called, Naked and Pissed Off.
Gahrie,
Oh, yes, it is. At least eight years now, and still languishing in the DC Circuit. Again, "the process is the punishment."
Episode Two is out today. I have seen both, and was very entertained by them. I never saw his show on Fox News, as we do not have cable TV. His commentary is stuff to ponder (as CDR Salamander would say). I am not sure I agree with all of it, but I AM tuning in.
Steyn started a business model long before Substack: all content free but subscribers get to comment and communicate more directly.
His books on musical theater, of all things, are magnificent. You can listen to hundreds of classics and discussions of classic novels, poems, songs, and entertainment history at his site. He's a one-man humanities department.
He is still being repeatedly sued by Michael Mann, and still winning. One deposition, which he published, is hilarious.
Sadly, there are people who claim to represent the MAGA movement but who are paid to distract (Article V craziness, eliminate the electoral system, don't vote...) and undermine it. That includes Mark Levin and Glenn Beck. Steyn entered a venture with them, figured it out, got out, and that led to litigation.
His own station is doing fine. He does have to spend a lot of time in court, and he pulled triple duty covering Rush Limbaugh's shows as Rush died. Canada and Britain's speech suppression laws forced him to relocate to the U.S. long ago. That's terrifying.
Episode #2 came out SEVENTEEN Hours ago, and has ONLY been watched: 40.4 MILLION times
What a LOSER!!!
Post a Comment