Quick take: On the firing of Tucker Carlson (and other associated media news)

 Well, that was interesting.  Discovery during the Dominion lawsuit demonstrated that Tucker Carlson does not believe much of what he says.  How much of his schtick is pure schtick?  We will never know.  I doubt that he has a secret reading room in his house with the complete works of Karl Marx, Derrick Bell, Judith Butler, John Money, Alfred Kinsey, and all of his Bernie Sanders fan-fic short stories, written out by hand.  This strikes me as implausible.  Yet he detests Donald Trump, and has no compunction about lying to keep his audience.  Carlson was among the anchors creating the greatest legal and financial liability for Fox, despite knowing that he was full of shit, yet Carlson was not going rogue.  He was not brushing off directives from executives to keep it within the lines.  Quite the opposite.  He was among their cash cows, bringing in money precisely for spreading the lies and conspiracy theories that created the legal liability.  That business incentive remains, and hence this is a strange decision.  From a moral perspective, I cannot help but smile when someone like Tucker Carlson finally faces a consequence, yet from a business and strategic perspective, this makes little sense.  There will be no change in Fox's practices, so all this does is look like the direct admission of guilt that Fox tried so desperately to avoid in their public statements after the Dominion settlement.  The secret to successful liarism is as follows:  always double down.

I don't get it.

Secret provision of a deal?  Or am I the conspiracy theorist now?

There did seem to be a great deal of media news yesterday, all of which leads me to a truly important question:  Don, who?