MEDIAWATCH: Fox News is a Network of falsehood profiting from a carnival of malice that celebrates ignorance
After $787.5m Dominion settlement, what’s next for Fox?
A last-minute $787.5m (£634m) deal allowed Fox News to avoid a lengthy and potentially embarrassing defamation trial with US voting machine company Dominion.
In its $1.6bn lawsuit, Dominion alleged that Fox had damaged its business by spreading false claims that its machines had helped rig the 2020 election in Joe Biden’s favour.
While Fox swiftly declared the settlement a victory, the media empire was also forced to acknowledge that “certain claims” it made about Dominion were false, potentially putting it at odds with former President Donald Trump and vast swathes of its audience ahead of the upcoming 2024 election.
The network, controlled by 92-year-old billionaire mogul Rupert Murdoch, must also still contend with a second, similar lawsuit from another voting technology firm, Smartmatic, seeking an even larger sum of $2.7bn.
The appalling hypocrisy exposed by Fox News Hosts between what they privately knew regarding Trump’s lies and what they publicly said to their audience is a venality of journalism that degrades the entire industry.
Journalists knowingly peddling falsehoods that undermine the very fabric of Democratic norms and fuels an insurrection are not journalists.
They are criminal co-conspirators.
The appalling malicious toxicity their ‘journalism’ has caused within America and global democracy is war crime level damage.
They knew Trump’s claim of a stolen election was false, yet they peddled it and enflamed a riot.
Fox News is culpable for the damaged debate in America that has warped politics into an existential threat against each other.
Our global democracy is made worse by the existence of Fox News.
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It really is amazing that a country with the disinformation capabilities of the CIA and NSA and God knows what else, allows Fox to run its crazy making propaganda that undermines democracy. Almost as if those agencies are not interested in the integrity of American democracy at all.
The CIA and NSA look after unfettered capitalism before the idea of democracy.
Agree, dangerous lies to be spreading when a key “news” outlet destabilizes democracy like that.
They are of course not alone : CNN who went completely down the woke rabbit hole were caught out constructing a false narrative over Kyle Rittenhouse- the white dude who shot some people in self defense during the BLM riots. The riots and many people killed were downplayed and some say encouraged.
“Mostly peaceful” protest became a sick joke.
At least in Foxes case it’s going to hurt them badly financially.
In CNNs case their numbers went off a cliff. Be interesting to see if they do for Fox.
Well summarised in respect to Faux Spews, but…
“Our global democracy” ? ?
Why are you surprised shocked?
ALL major media companies do it. Lie & cheat
Including such bastions as the BBC and TVNZ.
oh and CNN,MSBC et al
Im as left leaning as the next thinking person ( not that left/right seem to mean anything in the present paradigm) but I find some of Carlson’s reporting informative much to my own surprise , particularly around the Biden crime family and their sordid connections in Ukraine .