As radical conservative cable news talk show star Glenn Beck begins to lose his pull with audiences, Fox News is mulling the possibility of ending his contract as early as December, according to the New York Times' David Carr. 

Glenn Beck (Creative Commons)

Carr suggests in a column that Beck - whose viewership has shrunk by a third since his August rally in Washington - has marginalized himself and alienated audiences and his bosses with his sometimes outrageous comments:

How could a breakup between Mr. Beck and Fox News — a bond that seemed made in pre-Apocalyptic heaven — come to pass? They were never great friends to start with: Mr. Beck came to Fox with a huge radio show and had been on CNN Headline News, so he did not owe his entire career to Fox and frequently went off-message. The sniping between Fox News executives and Mr. Beck’s team began soon after he went on the air in 2009.

Many on the news side of Fox have wondered whether his chronic outrageousness — he suggested that the president has “a deep-seated hatred for white people” — have made it difficult for Fox to hang onto its credibility as a news network. Some 300 advertisers fled the show, leaving sponsorship to a slew of gold bullion marketers whose message dovetails nicely with Mr. Beck’s end-of-times gospel. Both parties go to some lengths to point out that that the discussion has nothing to do with persistent criticism from the left.

Read the rest at the New York Times.