Tucker Carlson is Lying to You

May 12, 2023

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by Matt Welch Reason.com

On Tuesday night, the man who was until last month the most popular cable news host in the country told a Twitter audience of 122 million viewers and counting that, “at the most basic level, the news you consume is a lie—a lie of the stealthiest and most insidious kind.”

Then Tucker Carlson told a revealing lie of his own: “The best you can hope for in the news business at this point is the freedom to tell the fullest truth that you can. But there are always limits. And you know that if you bump up against those limits often enough, you will be fired for it. That’s not a guess—it’s guaranteed. Every person who works in English language media understands that. The rule of what you can’t say defines everything. It’s filthy, really. And it’s utterly corrupting.”