*Now that Tucker Carlson is out at Fox, the big question is WHO will replace him. The answer is Lawrence Jones. We should also note that as of now Jones is Carlson’s replacement for next week only.
For those not familiar, Jones, 30, anchors “Lawrence Jones Cross Country” on Fox News on Saturday nights. This coming Monday Jones will host in what used to be Carlson’s former 8pm slot. Over the next few weeks, Fox will try out a rotating line-up of anchors.
“Fox News is trying out a rotating list of anchors in Tucker’s spot — this week it has been ‘Fox & Friends” Brian Kilmeade — but it is significant that they have chosen Jones to step up so soon after Tucker’s departure,” is what a “media insider” told the NY Post about Fox’s plan.
Jones – who’s been at the network since December 2018 and pulls in 1 million viewers and 108,000 in the demo in his 10 p.m. Saturday slot is based in Dallas, but is in New York on Fridays and Saturdays for his show.
He works much of the week as an enterprise reporter for “Fox & Friends,” where he is the program’s national correspondent.
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“I never thought I would be doing this job. I think my classmates will tell you and my parents would say that I always had an opinion. I was always advocating for someone involved with politics in some form or fashion,” Jones recently told the Dallas Morning News.
Jones also told the newspaper it was Sean Hannity who first offered him a correspondent role on Fox.
“I told him no, I didn’t think it was a good idea, ‘Because I’m a libertarian, and we’re going to disagree a lot,’” Jones said. “And he said, ‘Oh, that’s OK. Just be you.’ And I said, ‘No, we’re really going to disagree.’ He goes, ‘Just give it a shot.’ And that turned from two months, into a year. And he said, ‘Listen, LJ, if you just be you, you’ll have your own show.’”
He added, “I may have a godparent of every single race. And so, people often ask me: How am I able to report on a story in the south side of Chicago and then go to Iowa to do (something) for ‘Fox & Friends?’ And it’s because I grew up around all these different types of people. It has allowed me to really go within any different crowd and understand their grievances and understand the things that matter to them the most.”
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