Al Mayadeen English

  • Ar
  • Es
  • x
Al Mayadeen English

Slogan

  • News
    • Politics
    • Economy
    • Sports
    • Arts&Culture
    • Health
    • Miscellaneous
    • Technology
    • Environment
  • Articles
    • Opinion
    • Analysis
    • Blog
    • Features
  • Videos
    • NewsFeed
    • Video Features
    • Explainers
    • TV
    • Digital Series
  • Infographs
  • In Pictures
  • • LIVE
News
  • Politics
  • Economy
  • Sports
  • Arts&Culture
  • Health
  • Miscellaneous
  • Technology
  • Environment
Articles
  • Opinion
  • Analysis
  • Blog
  • Features
Videos
  • NewsFeed
  • Video Features
  • Explainers
  • TV
  • Digital Series
Infographs
In Pictures
  • Africa
  • Asia
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Europe
  • Latin America
  • MENA
  • Palestine
  • US & Canada
BREAKING
Israeli media: The settlers wrote the word “revenge” in the site and uprooted dozens of olive trees
Israeli media: Settlers set ablaze a farm in the town of Deir Dibwan in the West Bank
Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) claims responsibility for Ankara attack
British Defense Minister Grant Shapps: We are deploying RAF Typhoons to Poland
British Defense Minister Grant Shapps announces a 4 billion pound ($4.9 billion) deal to build attack submarines
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan: We have waited 60 years at the doorstep of the European Union. We are no longer waiting.
Al Mayadeen correspondent: One civilian martyred, another injured by Saudi Arabia's armed forces in Saada, Yemen.
The Turkish authorities have banned media from broadcasting at the scene of an attempted terrorist attack that hit the capital near Parliament earlier.
An explosion and gunfire heard in Turkey’s capital Ankara near the parliament and the ministries.
US House 45-day stopgap funding bill with no aid for Ukraine gets enough votes.

Fox New fires staff for on-air chyron calling Biden 'Wannabe dictator'

  • By Al Mayadeen English
  • Source: News websites
  • 17 Jun 2023 14:22
  • x

Fox News let a news producer go after he aired a message describing Biden as a 'Wannabe dictator' during live coverage of Trump's indictment.

  • Fox fires producer for on-air banner calling Biden 'Wannabe dictator'
    A chyron that refers to US President Joe Biden as a “wannabe dictator” during a Fox News broadcast covering former US President Donald Trump's indictment on Tuesday, June 13, 2023 (Screengrab)

A Fox News producer was let go earlier this week after he was held responsible by the outlet's management for airing a message describing US President Joe Biden as a "wannabe dictator" after the indictment of former President Donald Trump last week.

Alex McCaskill, Tucker Carlson's former producer, confirmed the news on his Instagram account, stating that, after 10 years of working for the American broadcaster, "The time has come. I asked them to let me go, and they finally did.”

Addressing McCaskill's dismissal, his former superior Carlson said that the decision was linked to the briefly displayed on-air banner “Wannabe dictator speaks at the White House after having his political rival arrested.”

Without mentioning the former Fox producer, Carlson said in his Twitter show that “those words were up for less than 30 seconds, but the effect was immediate,” adding that the message “panicked” the agency's executives. 

Related News

Leading hardline Republican says will move to oust McCarthy

After aid drop, albeit temporary, Kiev seeks Washington to ensure flow

McCaskill was "scolded" before being fired, Carlson said. Despite offering to stay for the “customary two weeks," the producer was asked to “clear out his desk and leave immediately,” Carlson stated during his latest Twitter episode.

In a statement, the news channel confirmed ousting the producer, saying that the chyron was “taken down immediately” and that the incident “was addressed,” without explaining how.

The "wannabe dictator" screen banner appeared on Tuesday during Fox's coverage of Trump's indictment.

Asked about the caption by reporters, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said, “There are probably about 787 million things that I could say about [the chyron] that was wrong… but I don’t think I’m going to get into it."

On April 25, Fox News announced that the network and its star primetime host Tucker Carlson have "agreed to part ways." Carlson worked for Fox News for over a decade and never got the chance to sign off to his viewers as his last show aired on Friday, April 21.

According to Fox News, the network had reached the decision to part ways with Carlson a few days after the network reached what was dubbed by Axios a "historic 11th-hour settlement with Dominion Voting Systems for over $787 million."

  • United States
  • Fox News
  • US
  • Tucker Carlson
  • Joe Biden
  • Donald Trump

Most Read

BBC from the front lines in Ukraine: It's bad, counteroffensive failed

BBC from the front lines in Ukraine: It's bad, counteroffensive failed

  • Europe
  • 28 Sep 2023
Zelensky joins Canadian Parliament’s ovation to WWII Nazi soldier

Zelensky joins Canadian Parliament’s ovation to WWII Nazi soldier

  • US & Canada
  • 25 Sep 2023
Who Would Ally with the West: ‘It’s Boring – The Real Excitement is in Asia’

Who Would Ally with the West: ‘It’s Boring – The Real Excitement is in Asia’

  • Analysis
  • 30 Sep 2023
How Hezbollah Burnt the Naqab Forest, The Abbassiye Landing Operation

Al Mayadeen documentary: How Hezbollah burnt the IOF's Naqab Forest

  • MENA
  • 24 Sep 2023

Coverage

All
Morocco & Libya Disasters

Read Next

All
sd
MENA

Islamic unity vital to counter US, Israeli plots, aggression: Raisi

DPRK flag
Asia

DPRK assimilates NATO, US alliance with Japan, South Korea to cancer

President Joe Biden signs H.J.Res.100, a bill that aims to avert a freight rail strike, in the Roosevelt Room at the White House, Friday, Dec. 2, 2022, in Washington. (AP)
US & Canada

Biden signs 45-day spending bill averting government shutdown

European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell speaks with the media as he arrives for an EU summit at the European Council building in Brussels, Thursday, June 29, 2023. (AP)n Ukrainian Port
Europe

Borrell sheds crocodile tears over Odessa after slew of drone attacks

Al Mayadeen English

Al Mayadeen is an Arab Independent Media Satellite Channel.

All Rights Reserved

  • x
  • Privacy Policy
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Authors
Android
iOS