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Josh vs the News: The TODAY Show, Cancel Culture, and Karl's Free Speech
Australia's most famous TV host has just been cancelled… but has he really?
The "Matt Lauer of Down Under", Karl Stefanovic, hosted the TODAY Show for more than two decades. Suddenly, he was fired on Friday after a chummy interview on his new independent podcast with the British anti-Muslim activist Tommy Robinson. The podcast only launched four months ago.
Is this cancel culture? An attack on free speech? Or was Karl inviting his exit by modelling himself on Joe Rogan, Megyn Kelly and Tucker Carlson?
Josh has been inundated with requests for a hot take, as someone who was cancelled from his…
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