Fox News' abrupt firing of star Tucker Carlson has caused such an uproar over the past two weeks that it has obscured profound questions about its corporate board and its controlling owners, the Murdochs.
Fox Corp.'s executive chair and chief executive, Lachlan Murdoch, is set to address investors and Wall Street analysts on Tuesday. Murdoch is not expected to apologize for Fox's broadcasting of bogus claims that Dominion Voting Systems conspired to cheat then-President Donald Trump of victory in 2020.
Instead, according to two people with knowledge of his plans, Murdoch intends to say Fox is on strong legal, financial and professional footing, just three weeks after the company agreed to pay $787.5 million to settle Dominion's defamation suit.
Nor does the Fox boss intend to detail the thinking behind the firing of Carlson, Fox's top star, who has developed into one of the most influential figures in Republican politics and whose departure has sunk Fox's primetime ratings, at least for the moment.
Carlson, who was one of the stars targeted by Dominion, is also the focus of an ongoing lawsuit from one of his senior producers who alleges a workplace rife with bigotry and sexism. He tells NPR he knows nothing about her. Fox says her accusations are meritless. Major advertisers had already abandoned Carlson's show, which regularly embraced groundless conspiracy theories and made appeals broadly found to be racist, xenophobic and misogynistic.
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