Series Review: Tucker Carlson Today on Fox Nation

Carlson’s Serious Broadcast Journalism’s the Reason to Stream Fox Nation

Tucker Carlson’s been around for decades. I remember watching him for the first time years ago on cable news when he was a bow-tied, conservative pundit. As I recall, he’s hosted his own program on all three major cable news stations, Microsoft’s channel with NBC News, MSNBC, Fox News Channel (FNC) and Cable News Network (CNN). This month, he started hosting a new show on FNC’s streaming app, FoxNation. It’s titled Tucker Carlson Today.

This is Carlson’s best work. The format, set and editorial standard is simple, direct and clear. The approach is the opposite of today’s dominant, dumbed-down, perceptual-based, audio-visual driven media; it’s entirely intellectual, not merely a disjointed cluster of fragments shoved into a package of pictures, noise—such as Fox News’s cranked up gong on its news alert—and blaring guitars in flashes, bursts and oppressive graphics. I’ve watched most of the episodes, which typically run for 50 minutes. Each episode is interesting, informative and distinc…