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During the George W. Bush and Barack Obama years, conservative journalist Gretchen Carlson was a prominent figure on Fox News — co-hosting the morning show "Fox & Friends" for eight years before her own show, "The Real Story with Gretchen Carlson," debuted in 2013. But Carlson became persona non grata at Fox News after filing a sexual harassment lawsuit against chairman/CEO Roger Ailes (who died in 2017).
A decade after her departure from Fox News, Carlson, now 60, discusses her battle with the right-wing cable news channel in an interview with The Guardian's Victoria Bekiempis.
Carlson said of her lawsuit, filed in July 2016, "I have absolutely no regrets. I had no idea what was going to happen to me when I actually filed it 10 years ago. I thought I might be crying my eyes out for the rest of my life. Immediately, I found purpose."
Carlson alleged that she was fired from Fox News because she resisted Ailes' advances. And she isn't the only Fox News host who alleged sexual harassment; others include Megyn Kelly, now with SiriusXM, and Andrea Tantaros.
Since leaving Fox News, Carlson has been outspoken about sexual harassment in the workplace — co-founding the group Lift Our Voices with ally Julie Roginsky in 2019.
Carlson said of Lift Our Voices, "Our main mission is to eradicate silencing mechanisms in the workplace. It's that simple."
The Guardian's Victoria Bekiempis explains, "Lift Our Voices has pushed for legislation to end nondisclosure agreements and forced arbitration in relation to these issues. They have already seen successes: then-President Joe Biden, in 2022, signed into law the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act. The legislation gives all sexual assault and harassment survivors the right to sue in court against their abusers, instead of being forced into secretive private arbitration."
Carlson told The Guardian, "We, as Americans, have no idea what the mental health impact has been on people facing these kinds of experiences in their life, and on top of that, being silenced about it. We know it can't be good…. I always say that I may never own my own story, because I'm still under a very stringent NDA, which is why I can't talk about the details of my case. But the work that I do every day is helping millions of people. It gives me great happiness to know that all of these other people have the possibility of getting justice. It's work I never thought I'd be doing, but it gives me great, great satisfaction."
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Gretchen Carlson praises Kamala Harris' Ellipse speech, calls it “the antithesis of division”
10/29/24 mma
https://www.alternet.org/2018/07/why-does-fox-news-steve-doocy-still-have-job-after-gretchen-carlson-lawsuit/ ?
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Watch: Former Fox News anchor explains how network's viewers have been brainwashed into believing conspiracy theories
Meaghan Ellis January 28, 2022
Former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson offered a damning assessment of the network as she explained just how bad its spread of conspiracy theories and misinformation has become.
During an appearance on the CNN segment, "Democracy in Peril," Carlson discussed many aspects of Fox News' critical role in the spread of misinformation and falsehoods. Since former President Donald Trump took office, conspiracy theories have been on the rise and Fox News has become a driving force for it.
Conservative primetime news anchor Tucker Carlson has been at the center of misinformation and the power of his opinion has begun to influence Republican members of Congress.
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“This is the result of fake news,” Carlson said. “You know, we're seeing not only the fallout from fake news during the Trump era, but what happened with the insurrection on January 6th. Now it's moving into other areas. Not just news, now it’s hitting science with vaccines, and now it’s into Cold War politics.”
Carlson also touched on another significant topic as she shed light on the actions of herformer Fox News colleagues, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham. While they reportedly sent pleas to the White House for the violence to stop on Jan. 6, they still put up a united front on-air and circulated a completely different narrative about the series of events that unfolded.
“I think the bigger story coming out of that is how disingenuous it was to be sending those texts of warning while then going on the air to the American people and doing a complete injustice and disservice by saying something completely opposite,” Carlson said, “and ginning up this whole reaction that it was just fine and patriotic for people to be there on January 6th.”
She went on to express concern about the journalistic state of her former network since the rise of Trump. Carlson also noted how conspiracy theories have become a fallacious replacement for opinion.
“Slowly but surely, this has morphed into eradicating any other point of view since the Trump era that is not just opinion,” Carlson said. “It's gone from an opinion, which was fine, to completely devolving into non-fact-based conspiracy theories and outright dangerous rhetoric, in my mind, and I think it’s a complete disservice to our country.”
Noting the dangers of biased journalism, Carlson explained how dangerous it is to only get information from one news source. She also stressed how imperative it is for Republican leaders and lawmakers to use their platforms to offer clarity regarding some of the dangerous false narratives perpetuated by Fox News.
“For the safety of the Republican Party and for our democracy, I wish more would, because this is not going to end well, in my mind,” Carlson said. “It's really hard to change people's opinions because they're only watching what they want to hear, you know? And that's the other problem that we have in society with the media right now, is that we're so siloed into only watching what we agree with. And so every day that thought process just gets reinforced time after time.”
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Carlson also conceded that conservative media has changed considerably over the last five years as there is no longer a clear line between opinion and conspiracy theory. “Conservative television news is certainly not the conservative news that was out there even just five years ago,” Carlson said, later adding, “There’s a big difference between having a conservative opinion and having one that supports conspiracy theories.”
https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/why-does-fox-news-steve-doocy-still-have-job-after-gretchen-carlson-lawsuit
Two years ago today, Fox News host Gretchen Carlson filed a civil lawsuit against then-Fox News chairman and CEO Roger Ailes, detailing serial sexual harassment and retaliation by Ailes and persistent gender-based harassment from her former co-host Steve Doocy. Two years later, the toxic culture for women at Fox has been exposed and Ailes and his deputy have both left the network in disgrace, but Doocy continues to co-host “the most powerful TV show in America.”
Carlson held several on-air roles at Fox News from 2005 to the day she was fired from the network in 2016, about two weeks before she filed the lawsuit against Ailes. Her suit detailed pervasive harassment by Ailes and retaliation when she rejected his propositions. This included repeated sexual comments about Carlson’s body and several instances in which Ailes told Carlson that she should engage in a sexual relationship with him in order to improve her job standing.
Carlson’s lawsuit further detailed allegations of harassment by her former Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy, also dismissed by Ailes:
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9. Gretchen Carlson, Rand Paul Agree: “It’s Almost Like They’ll Put You In Prison For Challenging … Climate Change On Campus”
On the November 12 edition of Fox News’ The Real Story, host Gretchen Carlson agreed with Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) when he asserted: “Only certain opinions are acceptable on college campus. So I think we need more robust debate and there really shouldn’t be this monolithic—I mean, if you challenge climate change, you know, it’s almost like they’ll put you prison for challenging the religious dogma of climate change on campus.”
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Carlson Complains SpongeBobEpisode "Did Not Tell Kids" Climate Change Is "A Disputed Fact"
Video››› August 3, 2011 7:30 AM EDT ››› MEDIA MATTERS STAFF
From the August 3 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends: dept of ed no balance "oops"
http://mediamatters.org/video/2011/08/03/carlson-complains-spongebob-episode-did-not-tel/183853
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2011/08/02/spoiler-alert-glenn-becks-website-ruins-science/183808
RAND PAUL: [W]e've become overly sensitive where people can't tell a joke, people can't have an opinion.
GRETCHEN CARLSON: Yep.
PAUL: Only certain opinions are acceptable on college campus. So I think we need more robust debate and there really shouldn't be this monolithic - I mean, if you challenge climate change, you know, it's almost like they'll put you prison for challenging the religious dogma--
CARLSON: Right.
PAUL: --of climate change on campus. And that's crazy.
CARSON: Alright. Senator Rand Paul. Great to see you again.
Previously:
Carlson Complains SpongeBob Episode "Did Not Tell Kids" Climate Change Is "A Disputed Fact"
Fox's Dana Perino Thinks Bacon-Cancer Link Is Part Of A "Conspiracy" About Climate Change
Fox's Greta Van Susteren Ignores Scientific Findings That Prove Climate Change Is Happening
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