The insertion of the caption “wannabe dictator” in a speech by US President Joe Biden caused a storm of outrage towards Fox News in the United States. The broadcaster has now found the alleged culprit for the fade-in: the former producer of Tucker Carlson.
After the insertion of a caption titled “wannabe dictator” under US President Joe Biden’s speech, the Fox News broadcaster took the first steps and parted ways with an employee. Alex McCaskill, the former producer of the controversial show about star presenter Tucker Carlson, who was fired in April, is said to be responsible for the display, according to several US media. McCaskill also confirmed the separation, but did not go into the background. “Today was my last day at Fox. It’s been a wild ten years but the best place I’ve ever worked because of the people I met there,” McCaskill wrote on his now-deleted Instagram profile.
The insertion on Tuesday evening had caused a lot of controversy. It was only in the afternoon that ex-President Donald Trump, who was accused of the secret documents affair, pleaded not guilty to a court in Miami and appeared in front of his supporters and the cameras in Bedminster in the evening, while Biden appeared in front of the cameras at the same time. Although the display was only visible for a few seconds, it was probably too sensitive even for those responsible at the conservative broadcaster. “The caption was immediately removed and addressed internally,” said a spokeswoman for the broadcaster. While the media and Internet users condemned the overlay as “terrifying choice of words” or “incomprehensible”, the White House reacted scathingly. “There’s probably about 787 million things I can say about it,” Biden spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre said. An allusion to the sum that Fox News has to pay to the voting machine manufacturer Dominion because of allegations of defamation.
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The controversial presenter Tucker Carlson, who was sacked by Fox in April, was incensed on his Twitter show about McCaskill’s dismissal. “The women who run the station have panicked,” Carlson ranted. First they insulted the producers and released them less than 24 hours later, according to the ex-moderator. The producer, whose name Carlson did not name, was one of the “best and most capable” producers on the network – before Carlson picked up Trump’s narrative that the charges against the ex-president were politically motivated.
Carlson was released in April. The separation came less than a week after the historic comparison between Fox News and the voting machine company Dominion in the dispute over false allegations of voter fraud after the 2020 presidential election. Carlson then announced that he wanted to continue his show on Twitter, but Fox News is trying to do so with one To prevent an injunction because Carlson is still tied to the broadcaster by an exclusive contract until 2025.
McCaskill wasn’t without controversy at Fox. His name also appears in a discrimination lawsuit filed by former producer Abby Grossberg earlier this year. In this report, Grossberg, who also worked on the Tucker Carlson show, accused McCaskill and other producers at the station of creating a toxic and misogynistic image at the station. Furthermore, the producers would have regularly insulted women and made anti-Semitic comments in the editorial environment. Although Fox News denied the allegations, according to a CNN report, the broadcaster is about to reach an out-of-court settlement with the ex-employee.
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