First of all, a couple of career obituaries that were perhaps the top new items of today:
Today's first career obituary is Tucker Carlson, 53, whose career at Fox News ended today, just days after the massive settlement the network made with Dominion Voting Systems. He had been with Fox News for years, increasingly becoming a lightning rod for criticism although he gave feminists some air time regarding the "gender identity" nonsense. Before this, he was a regular on CNN's old Crossfire show.
Gory details:
Fox said Carlson's last day hosting his show was Friday, April 21. Suzanne Scott and Lachlan Murdoch, the chief executives of Fox News and its parent company Fox Corp. respectively, had decided Carlson's fate on Friday, a source with knowledge told NPR.
Yet even after Fox released its statement on Monday morning, the network was still promoting an interview between Carlson and presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy that was to have aired later that night.
Carlson had signed off of Friday's show by wishing viewers the "best weekend" and telling them he'd be back on Monday. He did not respond to a request for comment from NPR.
It also didn't help he was the target of a sexual harassment lawsuit.
And then, of course, there was the firing of longtime CNN correspondent/host Don Lemon, who also has been accused of sexism. Lemon, who I am surprised is 57 years old, three years older than Carlson, got the boot from his
network. He had been with CNN since 2006. During 2014, he seemed to be on television 24/7 covering the missing flight of MH 370.
Gory details:
He was widely criticized for sexist comments he made on “CNN This Morning” in February. During an on-air discussion about Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley’s proposal that older politicians take competency tests, Lemon argued that the 51-year-old Haley “isn’t in her prime.”
Lemon said a woman is only “considered to be in their prime in 20s and 30s and maybe 40s.” Co-anchors Harlow and Collins pushed back, but Lemon doubled down on his point.
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Being black and gay didn't shield him from the axe.
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Real obits:
Herb Douglas, 101, the oldest living Olympic medalist, died
Saturday. He won the bronze medal in the 1948 Olympic games.
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Ken Potts, 102, one of the last known survivors of the USS Arizona, passed away this past
Friday. He spent his career following the service as a car salesman.
There is one known remaining survivor of the sinking, and he is 101.
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UK comedian Barry Humphreys, 89, known for his characters like Dame Edna Everage, died from complications from hip
surgery.
Snip:
Humphries took his Dame Edna act from comedy clubs to television, the big screen, and a recording career. He made frequent appearances on talk shows, as well as hosted his own – “The Dame Edna Experience” was a British TV hit of the 1980s, and he took the character to the U.S. for “Dame Edna’s Hollywood” in the 1990s. Humphries often brought on celebrity guests to appear alongside Dame Edna, giving each a name tag, for example giving Charlton Heston (1923–2008) one labeled “Chuck.” As Dame Edna, Humphries also appeared in “Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie,” penned an advice column for Vanity Fair (which was discontinued after a culturally insensitive response advising a reader not to learn Spanish), and he wrote books including the memoir “My Gorgeous Life.” He portrayed Dame Edna for more than 60 years before her last appearance in 2019.
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