Of course, this makes sense.
FOX News celebrities like Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, and Bill O’Reilly never left FOX. They just moved to Redseat Ventures, the podcast entity backed by FOX.
This of course, means that the same people who run FOX and hate President Trump, the Australian Murdoch family, still fund Tucker, Megyn Kelly and Bill O’Reilly. It’s as if they never left.
The Conservative Treehouse pointed out this not-so-surprising connection.
Fox Media purchased Red Seat Ventures {Citation} and expanded the narrative control operations through “podcasting.” As a consequence, Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Piers Morgan, Bill O’Reilly and many more still work for Fox Corporation, just in different venues.
When Tucker Carlson is interviewing Megyn Kelly during a podcast, or when Piers Morgan is interviewing Bill O’Reilly during a podcast, it is no different than Megyn Kelly interviewing Piers Morgan on Fox News television. The platform changed, but the relationships -and more importantly the information content itself- is the same. The same control mechanisms apply; it is just a different distribution channel.
Instead of watching Fox News, you are essentially watching Fox News ‘podcasting’ division, via Red Seat Ventures.
♦ Red Seat Ventures (a Fox Corporation subsidiary) controls the advertising, distribution and financial payments to the same cast of characters that appeared on Fox News broadcast. The same leverage and pressure points apply, albeit with a plausible deniability in order to push a false claim of independence in order to manufacture the optics of credibility.