{"id":42605,"date":"2023-05-04T14:21:20","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T22:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=42605"},"modified":"2023-05-04T14:21:20","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T22:21:20","slug":"did-zelensky-tell-rupert-murdoch-to-fire-tucker-carlson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/04\/did-zelensky-tell-rupert-murdoch-to-fire-tucker-carlson\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Zelensky Tell Rupert Murdoch To Fire Tucker Carlson?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@thejimmydoreshow\">The Jimmy Dore Show<\/a> guest host Aaron Mat\u00e9 and Kurt Metzger discuss whether Zelensky had an impact on the Fox News network\u2019s decision to jettison Carlson.<\/p>\n<p>A few weeks before Tucker Carlson was fired, Rupert Murdoch reportedly spoke to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. It\u2019s not clear what Zelensky said, but it\u2019s been well established that the Ukrainian government objected to Carlson\u2019s opposition to U.S. support for Ukraine in the war with Russia.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j-W8vlqFynQ\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On The Jimmy Dore Show guest host Aaron Mat\u00e9 and Kurt Metzger discuss whether Zelensky had an impact on the Fox News network\u2019s decision to jettison Carlson. A few weeks before Tucker Carlson was fired, Rupert Murdoch reportedly spoke to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. It\u2019s not clear what Zelensky said, but it\u2019s been well established [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-42605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42605"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42609,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42605\/revisions\/42609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42605"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=42605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}