As of this writing, this only has 71.2 million views in less than a day, which should give you an indication of who’s most likely to come out better from Tucker Carlson’s split with Fox News.

We’ve noted the likelihood that Carlson leaving FNC was very likely to have the effect of moving the public away from cable news altogether and into the podcast space. Frankly, that’s overdue – you’re already much more likely to partake of streaming entertainment you can watch whenever you want, as Amazon Prime or Netflix or Hulu offer, than you are being held to a rigid schedule of tuning in at 8:00 every Wednesday night to watch some show as though it was still 1986.

Why would you not make the same switch where it comes to news?

As somebody who regularly does a podcast (and a pretty damn good one in its own right, I should say; if you check out The Spectacle, you’ll surely agree), what I can say is this: it’s a far superior platform for the content creator than is the tightly-scripted television or the cramped radio format. There are no hard breaks, there are no time limits. If there’s a subject to be conversed about, we just converse about it. If it takes three minutes to cover it with intelligent remarks, great. If it takes 15 minutes to do so, that’s fine too.

And as a consumer of content in that medium, you also profit – because things not being compressed into tight segments means you’re no longer being trained to have a miniscule attention span and an inability to process things at a normal human speed. You can talk about complex things in a podcast and take your time to explain them, and as a consumer you can actually learn something.

Carlson becoming a podcaster is the best of all possible worlds, because he’ll change the public’s habits and move them away from cable news, a medium tightly controlled by a handful of media conglomerates who ought to be viewed with suspicion, and because he now has absolute freedom to say what he wants without some woke or semi-woke network suit playing Caesar on whether it’s allowed.

Because the latter is a real thing. We all know it.

And that’s the subject of Carlson’s first Tucker On Twitter episode, which is basically a monologue on the quality and veracity of modern American corporate media.

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— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) June 6, 2023