Aftermath
A year later and CNN announced they were ending their relationship with Carlson and Crossfire was getting the ax. The CNN chief, Jonathan Klein, approached Carlson before releasing the statement so he could be informed of what was about to happen. However Carlson had already resigned months before, long before that heated debate with Jon Stewart in fact! Carlson told Patricia Duff, “I resigned from Crossfire in April, many months before Jon Stewart came on our show, because I didn’t like the partisanship, and I thought in some ways it was kind of a pointless conversation … each side coming out, you know, ‘Here’s my argument’, and no one listening to anyone else. [CNN] was a frustrating place to work.”
Aftermath
MSNBC’s Tucker
Shortly after parting ways with CNN, Turker Carlson began working on a new early evening show on MSNBC, Tucker. The show lasted for three seasons before its cancelation due to poor ratings. Brian Stelter, The New York Times reporter, said, “During Mr. Carlson’s tenure, MSNBC’s evening programming moved gradually to the left. His former time slots, 6 and 9 p.m., were then occupied by two liberals, Ed Schultz and Rachel Maddow.” It was time to move on.
MSNBCs-Tucker