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Lou Dobbs' last show was a surprise to him and his viewers
Why Fox News canceled Lou Dobbs
Nothing unusual happened when Lou Dobbs hosted his Fox Business show on Thursday evening. His hour was full of Fox's usual themes about "radical Dims" (Democrats) and Big Tech "abusing their power."
"Join us here tomorrow," he said at the end of the show. "See you then."
But that, it turned out, was his final broadcast. Fox pulled the plug on Friday in a cancellation so swift that it surprised even Dobb's detractors. A day later, TV insiders are still abuzz about why it happened and what the decision augurs about Fox.
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Why Fox News canceled Lou Dobbs
Fox News' official reason for canceling Lou Dobbs' show -- a post-election programing adjustment -- doesn't quite add up.
Dobbs was the highest-rated host on Fox Business. He often doubled his lead-in's ratings.
Although Fox isn't saying, the timing of Dobbs' cancellation Friday appears to be no coincidence: It took place 24 hours after Dobbs and Fox were named in a $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit filed by voting technology company Smartmatic.
Fox may see Dobbs as an acceptable sacrificial lamb.
NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik said on CNN's "Reliable Sources" Sunday that the network's decision to cancel Dobbs' show reminds him of the way Rupert Murdoch's news tabloids in London handled their phone-hacking scandals about a decade ago.
"They would throw somebody over the side and see if that was enough," he said. "This is an effort to cauterize the wound to distance Fox from this feverish conspiracy theory."
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