Fox News reached a last-minute settlement with Dominion Voting Systems, which accused Fox News of pushing conspiracies that harmed the company. What really made Dominion v Fox extraordinary were its revelations ahead of the trial. The lawsuit laid bare—through the release of emails, texts and depositions of Fox staff and management—the extent to which America’s most popular cable network’s coverage is shaped by a desire to tell its audience what it wants to hear. The case shed light on Fox’s delirious relationship with the politician loved by many of its viewers, Donald Trump.
The settlement was for 787.5 million dollars, the network can pay the settlement, which is about a quarter of what analysts estimate that Fox News earned in revenue last year, otherwise the impact is negligible.
Fox News’s settlement with Dominion Voting Systems on Tuesday earned extensive coverage on every television news network but one: Fox News. The $787.5 million settlement was covered only three times by Fox News in about four hours after the settlement became public, amounting to about six minutes of coverage. I ride an exercise bike every morning at the gym and was curious to see if anyone on Fox spoke on this topic all week, crickets are all I heard, truly amazing coming from a network who bloviates all day long but didn’t want to talk about dishonest journalism.
Fox news had Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis and a gaggle of republican representatives and senators on a continuous loop from election day to January 6, spreading false and misleading information to its viewers and they ate it up, like bees to honey, sometimes you just can’t fix stupid!
I always like to see how certain people react to these stories; one caught my eye the other day, see below. Patrick Bet-David was asking since this lawsuit dropped, why hasn’t Trump sued CNN or MSNBC over the Russia investigation. Now, the thing I find humorous about this is how they act like Donald Trump didn’t do anything wrong. A total of thirty-four individuals and three companies were indicted by Mueller’s investigators. Eight have pleaded guilty to or been convicted of felonies, including five Trump associates and campaign officials. The real question here is, like Patrick stated, why isn’t Trump suing, these folks, seems like the perfect time? I’m betting Trump doesn’t want to raise his right hand in court, but we will see.
My favorite reaction from the week came from Marjorie Taylor Greene the congresswoman from Georgia who stated: “We have food critics that criticize restaurants, consumer reports that criticizes products, auto critics that criticize automobiles, and conservative Americans have just wrapped up a week of nuking a beer company, but you can’t criticize a voting machine company, or you’ll get sued for millions and millions of dollars.”
Wow! I can’t believe this is a sitting member of congress and she doesn’t know the difference between criticism and a lie. Here Marge, let me help you.
CRITICISM: Marjorie Taylor Greene is an awful member of Congress because she isn’t focused on problem solving for constituents, just performative outrage.
LIE: Marjorie Taylor Greene is very intelligent.
There, see the difference!
On a personal note, I hope Smartmatic who is also suing Fox News for billions wins and make Fox admit their lie on national TV, NOW THAT WOULD BE FAIR AND BALANCED!