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Let's not underplay the hostile workplace action being taken by Abby Grossberg against Fox in general and specifically against Carlson.
From what I've read, it appears that Murdock is familiar enough with attacks and legal actions on the content presented on his various media businesses. But what scares Murdock is the possibility of growning negative press about "hostile workplace" and sexual harrasment complaints and charges. They got rid of O'Reilly quickly, and surprisingly without much of the nonsense complaining from idiots like Megyn Kelly that we are seeing right now. But the word out is that Murdock fears a media empire reputation of ignoring sexual harrasment.
No doubt Murdock is pissed off that the FOX team couldn't put together any sort of effective defense against the Dominion defamation suit (and defamation is a historically difficult charge to win), but this sexual harrasment suite on top of it was more than he was going to tolerate. And Murdock faces another suit from Smarmatic for over $2 billion. Dumping Carlson is a message to the management at FOX that they need to extract their heads from out of their collective ass.
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