Big Head DC has just received word from Tucker Carlson himself that rumors floating around the blogosphere today (which were stirred up by an unnamed NBC exec in the NY Times yesterday) are false — MSNBC has not canceled his program behind his back. “We’re on the air as far as I know,” Carlson tells us. “I’m heading to the studio right now in fact.”
Could MSNBC have made a decision to drop him without telling him first? Or is it a possibility that someone within MSNBC who doesn’t like Carlson floated the inaccurate rumors, as we’ve heard from our own NBC sources? When we contacted Carlson about the alleged cancellation mentioned by the NBC exec yesterday, he seemed to confirm the latter line of thought, saying, “TV’s a dangerous business.”
