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Belafon9/16/2018 9:31:13 am PDT

What happened to Tucker Carlson? This journalist set out to find the answer.

Years ago, Tucker Carlson was a well-regarded conservative writer with award-nominated articles and praise from journalism’s top editors. Now, he shouts about immigrants, cries that big tech is stifling conservative voices, and poses questions like “How, precisely, is diversity our strength?” on his nightly Fox News show.
Carlson’s journey has puzzled media critics for years. “What happened to Tucker Carlson?” they want to know. Now, Lyz Lenz, a writer with the Columbia Journalism Review, may have found the answer: Nothing.

The answer to “What happened to Tucker Carlson?” has actually existed for years, Lenz said.

“We want to think that, oh, this is a whole new shtick for him,” Lenz told Stelter. “But actually, I think it’s just part of who he’s always been. If you look at a lot of his early writings… there has always been kind of a latent racism.”