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That's the point of my proposal - during the most-watched time-slots, everyone is required to provide the boring news with no ads.

I see stories about Lemon here and there, he wasn't the figure Carlson was of course.  I'm sure Fox will find a replacement, as  they did for O'Reilly.  I also figure to do this sort of show every night takes a LOT of staff who likely will remain.  I'm sure they prepare their pitch a few days ahead of time, the guy we see on camera just reads the prompter, perhaps with a bit of editorial influence (or not). 

"OK, team, we're going to do a story lambasting the COVID vaccine, OK?  It will be popular with our viewers, so get cracking and cherry pick whatever you can find to hammer it and get the script going for Thursday."

I personally view Carlson as a schill who did whatever his staff put in front of him, and they knew what would play well with the viewers, else he would not get those ratings.  It's all about ratings in my view.  If they needed to misrepresent to get ratings, so be it.

Obviously, I have a very low opinion of the merits of that show.

I think it obvious that Carlson couldn't generate all this material on his own.  Now MAYBE he had full control and directed folks himself to prepare information for the stories.  I don't doubt he did some of this, they likely had staff meetings with him present in the AM.  They'd review the material for the night's show with him, and discuss what would be the next day etc.  They likely had 5-6 segments lined up ahead of time. 

It's also possible he had relatively little influence in all of this, that I can't know.  And likely whatever influence he had grew over time, if he wished to exert it.  My guess is a lot of this stuff was developed by the producer and a few others and basically handed to Carlson to parrot on TV. 

But to me, he is mostly a Figurehead who had a reading style a lot of folks liked.  (I could hardly stand to listen to him myself if someone posted a youtube of a segment.)

They'll find someone else about as good I think.  Fox management will likely give them stricter guidelines and editorial oversight.  The Smartmatic thing is still looming.