One current Fox source with knowledge of the matter described the Carlson-Briganti feud as an intra-network “death match.” In pleading his case, Carlson argued Briganti spent too much time badgering on-air talent and the channel’s personnel that she was generally incompetent and mean-spirited and that she regularly engaged in dirty tricks against him and other hosts and contributors, when her job was ostensibly to protect them. CEO Lachlan Murdoch, and even other Fox News personalities such as Sean Hannity. The sources say Carlson made his case to Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott, Fox’s chief legal officer Viet Dinh, Murdoch family heir and Fox Corp. Briganti, formerly a key lieutenant to the late, disgraced Fox News mastermind Roger Ailes, had been an influential figure in the cable-news industry for years, as an infamously aggressive enforcer within Fox’s public-relations apparatus.īut after years of mutual antipathy between the executive and the high-profile host, Carlson attempted to force her out.
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