Column: Meet the new Tucker Carlson, worse than the old Tucker Carlson?
LA TimesJesse Watters didn’t eat the pizza Tuesday night. Was Watters, the 44-year-old lightweight named a day earlier to replace Tucker Carlson at the helm of Fox News’ flagship prime-time program, recalling that Carlson’s last on-air act at the network was eating a slice of pizza? Whether or not Watters was seeing pizza as a bad omen, he merely held up a limp slice during “Jesse Watters Primetime,” which moves to Carlson’s 8 p.m. time slot July 17. Not long after one such episode — featuring Watters’ man-on-the-street encounters in New York’s Chinatown, for former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly’s show in late 2016 — the network rewarded Watters with a weekly show and a chair at the popular daytime round table “The Five.” The nightly “Jesse Watters Primetime” first aired in 2022. In short, by promoting Watters to its most coveted seat, Fox News has telegraphed that it learned nothing positive, and regrets nothing, after its humiliating $787.5-million settlement in April of Dominion Voting Systems’ lawsuit.
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