Aftermath
January 2005 rolled around and CNN announced they were terminating their relationship with Carlson and that his show Crossfire was canceled as well. Shortly after, Carlson was told by CNN’s chief Jonathan Klein that the network was not to renew his contract. However Carlson admits that before Klein approached him, he had already resigned long before. When speaking with Patricia Duff, Carlson said, “I resigned from Crossfire in April, many months before Jon Stewart came on our show, because I didn’t like the partisanship, and I thought in some ways it was kind of a pointless conversation … each side coming out, you know, ‘Here’s my argument’, and no one listening to anyone else. [CNN] was a frustrating place to work.”
Aftermath
MSNBC’s Tucker
Not long after Carlson left CNN, he signed a new contract with MSNBC. Thus his new early evening show, Tucker, kicked off! Despite all of Carlson’s best work, the show was eventually canceled after three seasons due to meager ratings. Brian Stelter, a reporter with the The New York Times explained that “during Mr. Carlson’s tenure, MSNBC’s evening programming moved gradually to the left. His former time slots, 6 and 9 p.m., were then occupied by two liberals, Ed Schultz and Rachel Maddow.”
MSNBC’s Tucker
