{"id":271042,"date":"2023-04-28T14:59:38","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T19:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=271042"},"modified":"2023-05-02T10:43:45","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T15:43:45","slug":"first-amendment-fails-to-save-tucker-carlsons-job-at-fox-news-unlv-prof-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/first-amendment-fails-to-save-tucker-carlsons-job-at-fox-news-unlv-prof-says\/","title":{"rendered":"First Amendment Fails to Save Tucker Carlson\u2019s Job at Fox News, UNLV Prof Says"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week\u2019s uproar over Tucker Carlson\u2019s<\/a> and Don Lemon\u2019s surprise departures from high-profile cable news jobs shows the limitations of First Amendment protections, according to legal experts.<\/p>\n

\"Tucker
A screenshot from Tucker Carlson on his former show Tucker Carlson Tonight, pictured above. The Fox News Channel<\/em> host was fired from his job this week. (Image: Fox News Channel<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The sacking of the media star provides a lesson for TV celebrities that freedom of speech and freedom of the media exists in the Constitution, but won\u2019t provide them job security.<\/p>\n

As far as the First Amendment goes, it’s just a reminder that media owners can fire anybody anytime, for good reasons, bad reasons, or no reasons,\u201d<\/strong> UNLV professor and attorney, Stephen Bates, told Casino.org<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Carlson \u201cseemingly got pushed out because of what he said and did at Fox<\/em>,\u201d Bates said.<\/p>\n

The First Amendment guarantees the right to speak, but does not insulate them from the consequences of that speech, Robert Jarvis<\/a>, a law professor at Florida\u2019s Nova Southeastern University\u2019s Shepard College of Law, told Casino.org.<\/em><\/p>\n

“Will the firings of Carlson and Lemon give some on-air personalities pause?\u00a0 Perhaps,\u201d he told Casino.org<\/em>. \u201cBut in the end, people tend to speak first and think later. On-air personalities are no different.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bates also noted that many people who cheered when hearing about Carlson’s ouster were upset when CBS<\/em> pushed anchor Dan Rather out of his job.<\/p>\n

Dominion Lawsuit<\/h2>\n

Jarvis linked Carlson\u2019s and Lemon\u2019s departures to Fox\u2019s<\/em> recent $787M settlement with Dominion Voting Systems over its defamation lawsuit against the network.<\/p>\n

I think they needed to send a clear message that a new day has dawned and that on-air personalities are going to be on a much shorter leash in the future,<\/strong>\u201d Jarvis told Casino.org.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

CNN<\/em> management also was rattled by the Dominion settlement. CNN<\/em> executives realized it sent \u201ca similar signal to its shareholders,\u201d Jarvis said.<\/p>\n

According to Jarvis, the ousters are part of a broader and continuing debate over how news gets generated and disseminated and what qualifies as news.<\/p>\n

Clearly, the public is very distrustful of all media right now. And when you factor in the recent court judgments against Alex Jones and InfoWars<\/em>, it is obvious that the system is breaking and a day of reckoning was going to come at some point. Of course, one could argue that the day of reckoning was already in motion,” Jarvis told Casino.org.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In recent years, CNN<\/em> also fired host Chris Cuomo and MSNBC<\/em> forced host Chris Matthews to leave.<\/p>\n

Still, from a First Amendment perspective, the reason for the turnover is \u201ca lot better than the blacklists of the 1950s, when people lost their jobs because of what they believed or did on their own time,\u201d Bates explained.<\/p>\n

Las Vegas Mass Shooter Conspiracy<\/h2>\n

Carlson was no stranger to controversy at Fox News Channel<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In 2017, he advocated conspiracy theories about the Las Vegas mass shooting, where Stephen Paddock<\/a> injured 546 concertgoers and the security guard, Jesus Campos, who confronted the shooter shortly before the massacre.<\/p>\n

Initially, 58 died from the shooting spree. Two additional victims later died from their wounds. An additional unnamed victim who passed away recently was added to the list of 60.<\/p>\n

During a segment on Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson suggested that Campos was involved in the shooting, pointing to Campos’s recent trip to Mexico as suspicious evidence.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“The whole segment … was rank of paranoia and further demonstrated Carlson’s ability to target a person of color in a story about the evils of old white men,” an article from Salon<\/em> wrote at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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