from charlotte, north carolina. the faa is investigating both incidents. that s it for us. the news continues, want to hand it over to cnn prime time with michael smerconish. anderson, thank you. tuckered out, i m michael smerconish from new york city tonight. it s been a chaotic day for the media. sources say former nbc universal chief jeff shell accused of sexual harassment by a cnbc anchor, don lemon and cnn parting ways, disney laying off more workers, but the most stunning headline today, tucker carlson is out at fox news. these stories, these networks are all very different situations, but in terms of fox, reports show the ouster could be for a variety of reasons. carlson disparaged network leadership in text messages. he s accused of a hostile and sexist work environment. he continued to down play january 6th and play up conspiracy theories about the attack, but while the network s official statement today explained very little, it s unlikely coincidental that the
departure comes so close to the record setting settlement with dominion voting systems. if so, that litigation did something that no boycott ever achieved, it removed from the most popular cable outlet its most watched talent. that means the civil justice system worked in a remediative way, just as it has to other products that posed harm to society. here, though, it wasn t flammable pajamas or lawn darts or atvs, but a false portrayal of the 2020 election, the texts, emails, sworn deposition testimony, everything that came into the public domain, we d be none the wiser without the litigation. while it s true that only one of the 20 allegedly defamatory comments in the dominion suit came from carlson s program, he knew the truth and he remained silent, and that s why he was scheduled to be one of the first witnesses called by dominion at trial.