We're pretty busy with COP28 right now (don't download the official app!) so check out this reporting from the Daily Beast's Roger Sollenberger about the Daily Caller: "Former Fox News star turned social media vlogger Tucker Carlson was quietly removed from the board of the media organization he co-founded in 2011—The Daily Caller—where he’d held a chair position for more than a decade, according to a previously unreported tax filing."
When Sollenberger reached out to him, "Carlson didn’t comment about being taken off the board and instead tried to belittle The Daily Beast and this reporter," who then proceeded to demonstrate the wisdom of the old adage ‘never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel.’ Case in point: Sollenberger writes, "'You’re still working for The Daily Beast? How old are you?' asked the 54-year-old Carlson, who recently appeared on the Nelk Boys podcast to discuss his zeal for nicotine-salt pouches ahead of a mixed martial arts fight."
Supposedly, according to the Caller's co-founder Neil Patel, "Carlson was too 'busy' for his five-hour-a-week board position and had termed out, without further explanation," which "sounds a lot like Carlson’s self-professed status with the organization nearly three years ago, when Carlson first announced that he would be leaving The Daily Caller and selling his stake in the website."
"At the time, Carlson claimed he was 'too absorbed' in his Fox program to juggle his responsibilities with the Caller. But as The Daily Beast reported last year, the foundation still listed Carlson as its chairman that year, as well as the next, while putting in the same hours as he had all the previous years—a grueling five per week."
Sollenberger also broke the news that while the Daily Caller is still just conservative billionaire-backed propaganda, it is no longer funded mostly by the Koch network any more. "Its registration statement this year revealed financial support from six nonprofits over the course of 2022—something the group did not receive last year,” Sollenberger explains. “Those nonprofits—which all lean conservative or libertarian—were the Searle Freedom Trust, the Sarah Scaife Foundation, the Triad Foundation, the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, the Randolph Foundation, the Armstrong Foundation, and the Arthur N. Rupe Foundation."
Go check out the story for more hard-hitting revelations and delightfully subtle snark!