The Week in Business: High-Profile Media Ousters

What’s Up? (April 23-29)

Pink Slips for Cable News Stars

In a matter of hours on Monday, cable news underwent a seismic shift. First, Fox News announced that it had ousted Tucker Carlson, its most popular prime-time host. The move came less than a week after the company paid $787.5 million to settle a defamation suit with Dominion Voting Systems. A focus of the case had been Mr. Carlson’s texts, showing him denigrating Donald J. Trump after…