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Q&A: What Tucker Carlson’s path reveals about where journalism is headed

Poynter · Pete Croatto · last updated

New Yorker staff writer Jason Zengerle, author of a biography on the former Fox News star, breaks down why Carlson may run for president

Tucker Carlson’s career is “a good cautionary tale,” says The New Yorker’s Jason Zengerle, author of “Hated By All the Right People: Tucker Carlson and the Unraveling of the Conservative Mind,” a riveting, sharp-eyed biography of the political pundit’s rise from acclaimed magazine writer to cable news mainstay to leading MAGA shriek.

His path also represents the crumbling of journalism and the growing, troubling influence of a man who increasingly lives in an echo chamber.

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