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Nick Confessore @nickconfessore
RT @Jan_Ransom: Who Gets Abortions in America? https://t.co/A3ol8cXfaY — PolitiTweet.org
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RT @NewsHour: A new analysis from the New York Times explores how Tucker Carlson has grown his ratings by weaponizing “fears and grievances… — PolitiTweet.org
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RT @DeadlineWH: "These [white nationalist] sites watch [Tucker Carlson's] show and praise it and say he is the best messenger they've ever… — PolitiTweet.org
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RT @ryanjreilly: This extremely thorough reporting from @nickconfessore on Tucker notes how he accused the wife of a Jan. 6 defendant of be… — PolitiTweet.org
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And if you're not a subscriber, you can read the story here. https://t.co/qOV4Rme1cM — PolitiTweet.org
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Carlson was soon back on the air to accuse liberals and big tech of trying to silence everyone else. There’s more in Part 2. You can read it here. https://t.co/oprfQ2Jpvo — PolitiTweet.org
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When a low-ranking Fox producer tweeted that “white supremacy is real, as evidenced by fact” — after Carlson called it a “hoax” — she got a call from an unlisted number. It was Carlson, who screamed at her to “shut your mouth.” He later denied it was him on the phone. https://t.co/5wHbqSh3K0 — PolitiTweet.org
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When a Fox reporter complained to HR -- the new, post-Ailes HR -- that Carlson’s offensive rhetoric about Muslims and Iraqis had created a threatening work environment for colleagues, his complaint somehow leaked to Carlson, who confronted the reporter in Los Angeles. https://t.co/xVWBGRGDvo — PolitiTweet.org
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When Carlson claimed South Africa’s white farmers were “being targeted in a wave of barbaric and horrifying murders," the head of Fox Business told executives that Carlson had ripped his story from sites like the neo-Nazi Daily Stormer. He was overruled. Carlson kept going. — PolitiTweet.org
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Fact checkers in the Fox “Brain Room” would sometimes warn Carlson’s staff that stories they were being sent had originated on a racist site like Stormfront. Carlson’s staff soon stopped asking for their help. — PolitiTweet.org
Nick Confessore @nickconfessore
As Carlson rose, Fox leadership was repeatedly made aware that Carlson was parroting ideas from noxious and racist sources. Not just by outside critics — by employees at Fox itself. They were ignored or shouted down, sometimes literally -- by Carlson himself, we report. — PolitiTweet.org
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In Part 3, we show how Carlson’s nightly monologues have gotten longer, and dissenting guests more rare. That’s in part intentional. The monologues rate highly, and the audience doesn’t like seeing liberals. It's a glitch. https://t.co/A7X8KucT5j — PolitiTweet.org
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Sharing an outrageous video clip from “Tucker Carlson Tonight” – even to dunk on him – advances what the show is trying to do. They cry “cancel,” parlaying the dunks into brand loyalty and new content. — PolitiTweet.org
Nick Confessore @nickconfessore
Clips of his show travel especially well online, Fox learned. Courting backlash is part of Carlson’s programming strategy. Calls to cancel the show boost the audience’s loyalty to Fox, while giving Carlson potent content for the next night. Attack, then play victim. — PolitiTweet.org
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And “Tucker Carlson Tonight” prints money: Despite boycotts and the loss of premium advertising, every year since 2018 Carlson has bought in more estimated annual ad revenue to Fox than any other show. — PolitiTweet.org
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There is little chance of Carlson being “canceled.” The inflammatory content on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” is not an aberration. It’s the point. It’s what works. Fox is a high-tech ratings machine. “Every second that goes on that network now gets scrutinized,” one ex-Foxer told us. — PolitiTweet.org
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On his show Thursday, Carlson claimed — as he often does when criticized — that our story is an effort to make him “shut up.” We wanted to hear more from Carlson, not shut him up. He declined to be interviewed for this story. — PolitiTweet.org
Nick Confessore @nickconfessore
There’s more in Part 3, an interactive dive into more than 1,000 episodes of “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” We show exactly how he appropriated the rhetorical tropes & exotic fixations of white nationalists, weaving it all into something uniquely his own. https://t.co/A7X8KucT5j — PolitiTweet.org
Nick Confessore @nickconfessore
There’s more in Part 3 of our story, an interactive analysis of more than 1,000 episodes of “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” We show exactly how Carlson has appropriated the rhetorical tropes & exotic fixations of white nationalists, weaving it all into something uniquely his own. — PolitiTweet.org
Nick Confessore @nickconfessore
But it wasn’t the only time. Or the first! In more than 400 episodes, he has amplified the idea that D politicians and others want to force demographic & political change through immigration. “Replacement” content has steadily increased since Carlson got the 8 p.m. timeslot. — PolitiTweet.org
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Remember the furor over his immigration “replacement” comments last April? When Mr. Carlson ran a clip of the comments on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” a few days later, the segment got 14 percent more viewers in the advertiser-sweet “demo” than Mr. Carlson’s average for the year. — PolitiTweet.org
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As he honed his programming edge, the show drew more & more from the arcana of the far right, especially the conspiracy theory that an elite cabal bent on destroying Western civilization uses immigration and feminist ideas to disempower and replace the native-born. — PolitiTweet.org
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Carlson’s innovation was “Trumpism without Trump.” Stories that would grab the Trump audience while keeping a certain distance from the undisciplined president. They were sometimes weird — “Gypsies” pooping on the street? — but spoke to fears of a trampled-on American culture. — PolitiTweet.org
Nick Confessore @nickconfessore
Carlson’s embrace of far-right themes is not random. Nor is Fox’s defense of him chiefly about “free speech.” From the beginning, our investigation shows, his provocations have been part of a painstaking, data-driven campaign to build and hold Fox’s audience. — PolitiTweet.org
Nick Confessore @nickconfessore
Today, you can read Part 2 of our new @nytimes series “American Nationalist.” This installment takes you inside how “Tucker Carlson Tonight” was built, how Carlson shaped and reshaped the show -- and how he made war on critics & rivals at Fox. https://t.co/oprfQ2Jpvo — PolitiTweet.org
Nick Confessore @nickconfessore
If you're not yet a Times subscriber, you can read Part 1 with this link. https://t.co/sCgGeMexL5 — PolitiTweet.org
Nick Confessore @nickconfessore
Our story is based on interviews with dozens of current and former Fox employees, Carlson’s friends and former colleagues, and an array of public records. But I had many more questions for Carlson. He declined to be interviewed. — PolitiTweet.org
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“He is going to double down on the white nationalism because the minute-by-minutes show that the audience eats it up,” said a former Fox employee who worked frequently with Carlson. — PolitiTweet.org
Nick Confessore @nickconfessore
But Carlson is a skilled cable edgelord. The closer he gets to the line, the more he lights up his audience. He knows that because he studies his ratings as closely as anyone. He’s failed twice before in cable, and he’s determined not to fail again. — PolitiTweet.org
Nick Confessore @nickconfessore
Today, “Tucker Carlson Tonight” is both a sincere expression of his views and a lucrative theater. As Kurt Vonnegut wrote, “We are what we pretend to be.” All the more true, Vonnegut might have added, if what you pretend to be makes you wildly rich. — PolitiTweet.org
