Fox News is FAILING post-Tucker Carlson



Cutting Tucker Carlson has not been good for Fox News’ business.

MSNBC has just beaten Fox in total viewers and in the 25-to-54 age demographic, which never happened when Tucker was there.

MSNBC scored 1.46 million total day viewers and 179,000 viewers within the age demographic, while Fox News came in second with 1.28 million total day viewers and 136,00 within the age demographic.

“Are you kidding me, for Fox News? This is really bad,” Pat Gray of "Pat Gray Unleashed" comments.

Fox News has claimed that Tucker Carlson’s new Twitter show has violated his contract, but Keith Malinak and Gray believe Tucker probably hasn’t actually done anything wrong.

“That’s social media, you’re telling me what I can and can’t do on my own personal social media?” Malinak says.

“I think that’s why he’s defying him,” Gray responds, “and saying ‘Screw you, I’m gonna keep doing it.’”

Tucker’s lawyer, Harmeet Dhillon, has also said that Tucker will not be silenced by the far left or Fox News.

“Fox News has been doing this crap for a long time,” Gray says.

Gray and Malinak believe that unlike Tucker, Fox News has never actually been interested in bringing its viewers the truth.

“When’s the last time you saw a news report critical of the vaccine? Oh that’s right, there hasn’t been one,” Malinak adds, “because they bankroll that network.”

According to Gray, the Saudis owned a 10% interest in Fox and had serious influence on the network.

“That wasn’t that long ago,” he says.


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Report: Twitter is set to accept Elon Musk's $43 billion offer to buy the platform



It looks like Elon Musk will finally own Twitter.

Reuters reported that Twitter is poised to agree to sell to Musk for what the Tesla and SpaceX CEO called his “best and final” offer of $43 billion.

Musk’s offer includes purchasing outstanding shares of Twitter stock for $54.20. Twitter is expected to announce an agreement to the deal on Monday, once its board has met to formally recommend the transaction to the company’s shareholders.

However, it does remain possible that the deal could collapse at the last minute.

Musk is reportedly negotiating to buy Twitter in a personal capacity. None of the other companies under his control are involved in the deal.

Twitter has been unable to secure a “go-shop” provision under its agreement with Musk that would allow the company to solicit other bids once the deal with Musk is signed, but Twitter would still be allowed to accept offers from other parties by paying Musk a break-up fee for breaking the agreement.

Twitter shares were up 4.5% in pre-market trading, selling for $51.15 a share, in New York on Monday.

Musk has expressed his interest in buying Twitter and taking the company private to grow it so that it may become a platform that truly embraces the principles of free speech.

Previously, Musk has been highly critical of the platform’s commitment to free speech principles.

Free speech is essential to a functioning democracy.\n\nDo you believe Twitter rigorously adheres to this principle?
— Elon Musk (@Elon Musk) 1648193692

He has also expressed concern over the lack of content and engagement generated by high-profile Twitter accounts, voicing concern that the platform is “dying.”

Most of these \u201ctop\u201d accounts tweet rarely and post very little content. \n\nIs Twitter dying?https://twitter.com/stats_feed/status/1512729717085929475\u00a0\u2026
— Elon Musk (@Elon Musk) 1649511151

This new deal would come just four days after Musk unveiled how he would finance the acquisition, which caused Twitter’s board to take his offer more seriously. Many shareholders reportedly asked the board not to let the deal offered to them to slip away.

In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Musk revealed that he had received commitments for $46.5 billion to help finance his purchase of Twitter from a group of banks led by Morgan Stanley.

According to Reuters, if Twitter and Musk finalize this deal, it would “represent an admission by Twitter that its new chief executive Parag Agrawal” is not proving successful in his attempts to make the company more profitable.

As recently as this past November, Twitter stocks were trading for higher than Musk’s offer price. The tech mogul’s negotiating tactics — of making one offer and sticking firmly with it — allegedly resemble the tactics of Warren Buffett and how he negotiates acquisitions.

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