"the podcaster and former Fox News host, once told a hostile conservative crowd that rightwing media needed to be more responsible. In a 2009 speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference, he argued that publications on the right should hold themselves to a higher standard. This is the hard truth, Carlson said. If you create a news organization whose primary objective is not to deliver accurate news, you will fail."
"Carlson's evolution from a clubbable conservative journalist who often criticized the kooks, extremists and blowhards of his own side, to a cautious Maga fellow-traveler, to an America first firebrand more radical than Donald Trump himself is the subject of a new book, Hated by All the Right People: Tucker Carlson and the Unraveling of the Conservative Mind. The reporter Jason Zengerle tries to answer a question that, he notes, haunts any room where political journalists today gather: What the hell happened to Tucker?"
Tucker Carlson told a hostile conservative crowd at CPAC in 2009 that rightwing media needed higher standards and warned that news organizations not prioritizing accuracy will fail. Conservatives complained about the New York Times while lacking their own comparable paper; the crowd jeered and booed. Carlson moved from a clubbable conservative critic of extremists to a cautious MAGA fellow-traveler and then to an America First firebrand more radical than Donald Trump. A recent critical biography seeks to explain that transformation, noting an earlier admiring 2023 biography and stressing that the newer account was produced without Carlson's cooperation.
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