"Bye-bye Tucker Carlson!" T-Mobile CEO says as advertisers drop Fox News show
Source: CBS News
Companies including T-Mobile and Papa John's Pizza are distancing themselves from Tucker Carlson's television show on Fox News after the conservative host's dismissive comments about the Black Lives Matters movement.
The backlash intensified after Carlson on Monday offered an inflammatory take on the nationwide anti-racism demonstrations that have followed the death of George Floyd at the hands of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.
"This may be a lot of things, this moment we're living through, but it is definitely not about black lives, and remember that when they come for you, and at this rate, they will," Carlson told viewers on June 8, the first day of Floyd's memorial in his adopted hometown of Houston.
Asked by a Twitter user the next day if Carlson's message was one T-Mobile supported, CEO Mike Sievert tweeted back, "It definitely is not. Bye-bye Tucker Carlson! #BlackLivesMatter."
Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tucker-carlson-advertisers-leave-fox-news-show/
Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)Would love to be wrong.
FakeNoose
(32,639 posts)(Not nice, I know)
cstanleytech
(26,291 posts)as they charge the cable companies about 2 to 3 dollars for every cable customer to allow the cable company to carry Fox News where as most other stations like CNN only charge a dollar or so.
So everyone contact Comcast, DirecTV and other providers and make them aware of this and put them pressure on them to tell Fox that if Tucker stays that Fox News goes.
brewens
(13,586 posts)I expected that to be on there, though I would only check it out occasionally to see what the half-wits were being taught to make believe. I had always had it before with even a rock bottom cable package. Just like drug dealers. Get them hooked and then they pay!
ProfessorGAC
(65,042 posts)At the same time, Comcast pays CNN 28¢. And, they own MSNBC, so that carriage fee is just taking money from one pocket to another.
I've sent complaints to Comcast about my bill since they're paying $2.70 for Faux, passing that cost to me and I've got it locked on the entire X1 system. It won't come in on any TV in the house. Yet, we pay nearly $3 per month for it.
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relayerbob
(6,544 posts)SCantiGOP
(13,870 posts)keep FOX alive by himself?
Fla Dem
(23,668 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,806 posts)As long as it makes money for him, he will advertise wherever.
That's normal business.
If he has to kiss Trump's backside for the bucks, he will.
Grokenstein
(5,723 posts)donkeypoofed
(2,187 posts)Grokenstein
(5,723 posts)They invited him on Crossfire. He looked Tuckles right in the eyes and told him off--and Tuckles flinched.
Lock him up.
(6,929 posts)Lock him up (in a padded cell).