Fox settles admitting they provided fake news about Dominion

[Lastamender]

Those here who argued that the agreement Fox made to hand 3/4 of a billion dollars to Dominion to settle Dominion’s suit that Fox and its anchors lied and defamed them was somehow a victory for Fox [!] look ever more moronic.


Tucker has now been fired, Fox’s stock value is falling rapidly, and it’s popularity with Trump cultists is collapsing.

Perhaps Lastamender and protectionist can find some comfort in the fact that today the lately remarkably lackluster Lemon was fired by CNN?

Have Dominion release their source codes for the 2020 election then I will believe there was no fraud. Until then the cover up will just continue when Dominion could put it all to rest by doing what I said. When is that going to happen?

 

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[Faun]

Have Dominion release their source codes for the 2020 election then I will believe there was no fraud. Until then the cover up will just continue when Dominion could put it all to rest by doing what I said. When is that going to happen?

You lie again, FruitLoops. The truth is... even had Dominion released all of their proprietary software, you would still be crying fraud with Dominion election equipment.

 

[Lastamender]

You lie again, FruitLoops. The truth is... even had Dominion released all of their proprietary software, you would still be crying fraud with Dominion election equipment.

No. Fraud would have been proven. There is only one way to prove differently and Dominion refuses to do anything about but threaten people.

 

[Faun]

No. Fraud would have been proven.

Slobbers you, citing your hallucinations.

 

[Lastamender]

Slobbers you, citing your hallucinations.

No one knows but Dominion. Is that fair to the American people? No, it is not.

 

[Calypso Jones]

hmmm. I wonder. Was Tucker Carlson being replaced at Fox part of the deal with Dominion.

 

[Tom Paine 1949]

hmmm. I wonder. Was Tucker Carlson being replaced at Fox part of the deal with Dominion.

My guess is it’s more likely that Fox is just trying to position itself better before the next suit (and possible settlement) they face … for defaming “Smartmatic.” Who knows? There may even be more firings in coming weeks.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

I think only NewsMax will hire Tucker. No one will hire Lemon.

 

[protectionist]

Trump doesn't even believe it, but he just lies because he can and it's what he does. However, with that said, he hired a team anyway to find any evidence of tampering to support his made up fantasies, and they came back with literally nothing. Just like they did the first time when he hired ppl to find evidence of illegal votes in his win against Hillary. I mean honestly, how gullible are you people??

Do you seriously not know that the reason why the Trump voter fraud commission didn't work out ? On May 11, 2017, Trump signed an executive order creating the “Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity.” Vice President Mike Pence was the chair, and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, was the vice chair.

The reason it didn't fly was because the elections are state functions, and the states simply declined to participate. Sure, why would they do that, only to have everyone take a good look at all the fraud they allowed to be seen by everyone ?

 

[protectionist]

Those here who argued that the agreement Fox made to hand 3/4 of a billion dollars to Dominion to settle Dominion’s suit that Fox and its anchors lied and defamed them was somehow a victory for Fox [!] look ever more moronic.

Tucker has now been fired, Fox’s stock value is falling rapidly, and it’s popularity with Trump cultists is collapsing.

Perhaps Lastamender and protectionist can find some comfort in the fact that today the lately remarkably lackluster CNN host Don Lemon was also fired?

• I don't recall ever suggesting that the Fox/Dominion settlement was a victory for Fox.
• Tucker was fired from Fox but he can write his own check at any one of a dozen different conservative media outlets.
• Nothing unusual about a media outlet's stock value diminishing after a departure of a popular person. These just as typically rise though, when a new personality appears in his place, and gains popularity, which is highly likely. Same thing happened when Bill O'Reilly left.
• As far as Fox popularity "collapsing", HA HA. that's a good one. Fox's # 1 most popular show *the Five", is still functioning with 5 popular personalities. Fox also retains popularity with other longtime popular show hosts such as Lou Dobbs, Judge Jeanine, Sean Hannity Laura Ingraham, Jesse Watters and Mark Levin.

 

[protectionist]

I think only NewsMax will hire Tucker. No one will hire Lemon.

There;s also the Blaze, the First, OAN, America's Voice, and many conservative radio stations.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

• I don't recall ever suggesting that the Fox/Dominion settlement was a victory for Fox.
• Tucker was fired from Fox but he can write his own check at any one of a dozen different conservative media outlets.
• Nothing unusual about a media outlet's stock value diminishing after a departure of a popular person. These just as typically rise though, when a new personality appears in his place, and gains popularity, which is highly likely. Same thing happened when Bill O'Reilly left.
• As far as Fox popularity "collapsing", HA HA. that's a good one. Fox's # 1 most popular show *the Five", is still functioning with 5 popular personalities. Fox also retains popularity with other longtime popular show hosts such as Lou Dobbs, Judge Jeanine, Sean Hannity Laura Ingraham, Jesse Watters and Mark Levin.

Time will tell.
Per Bill O'Reilly on News Nation tonight:

• a massive financial hit

• 30% layoff of personnel within two months​

• more "name" names to be fired​

 

[protectionist]

Time will tell.
Per Bill O'Reilly on News Nation tonight:

• a massive financial hit

• 30% layoff of personnel within two months​

• more "name" names to be fired​

Time will tell.

 

[billyerock123]

DOJ does their own investigations. Nothing in the J6 politically motivated, biased "investigation" will be entered into or used as evidence.

It's just that biased.

Jack Smith isn't an idiot.

if any party is insane that is the republican party ... they are a bunch of wack-os

 

[billyerock123]

750 million dollars of evidence ... do you honestly think Fox News is going to give them 750 million out of the kindness of their heart you are stupid ... here's your shred of evidence...

One of the year’s most hotly anticipated trials reached a stunning conclusion before it even began. Poised to face off in the courtroom this afternoon, with jury selection complete, Dominion Voting Systems and Fox News instead reached a settlement. The last-minute agreement makes clear just how sticky a situation Fox was headed for if the trial did occur.


Lawyers for Dominion announced that Fox News (and parent company Fox Corporation) had agreed to settle the case for $787.5 million — less than half of Dominion’s claim for $1.6 billion in damages but nevertheless a historic rebuke for the influential conservative media outlet.

The massive payout reflects the fact that Dominion had put together a strong case that Fox had acted with “actual malice,” a high bar under defamation law that has historically been difficult for plaintiffs suing media outlets to satisfy. Dominion’s considerable success in this case indicates that Fox acutely understood that there was a high risk that the jury would side with Dominion on this crucial legal point. The settlement also spares the network from weeks of embarrassing testimony that would have put the widespread internal dysfunction at Fox News on full public display.

Dominion had alleged that the network defamed the election technology company in the wake of the 2020 election, focusing on a series of segments in which Fox hosts allowed lawyers affiliated with Donald Trump to falsely claim that the company had rigged the election against the former president. After two years of pretrial litigation, the network found itself struggling to defend itself: A recent decision by presiding judge Eric M. Davis substantially bolstered Dominion’s position heading into trial by concluding that the evidence from pretrial discovery had already established that several key issues — including whether the claims at issue were actually false — were indisputable at trial. The ruling was a major win for Dominion and a major loss for Fox, which no doubt helps to explain today’s settlement.
Before the settlement was announced, there were some unexpected antics that appeared to provide even more reason to think that Fox was in for a very rough ride if the case had gone forward. Caley Cronin, a spokesperson for Fox News, was thrown out of the Wilmington, Del. courtroom after she violated a court order that prohibited taking photographs in the courtroom. It was just the latest embarrassing incident in which representatives for the network had antagonized the judge, who had otherwise drawn praise from observers for his steady hand and even temperament presiding over the case.

The trial was expected to focus on whether Fox News or Fox Corporation acted with “actual malice” in disseminating the false claims against Dominion. Under Supreme Court precedent, this would have required Dominion to show that individuals responsible for broadcasting the segments either knew that they were false or acted with “reckless disregard” as to the falsity of the claims.


This has traditionally been a very difficult standard for defamation plaintiffs to satisfy, since First Amendment law generally provides wide latitude to media organizations engaged in traditional newsgathering, but legal analysts broadly agreed that Dominion had put together an unusually compelling case on this point. In particular, the company’s lawyers amassed internal communications among Fox executives, hosts, and employees with editorial responsibilities in which they appeared to acknowledge in real time and to varying degrees that the claims aired against Dominion were false. Those communications involved some of the most prominent people at the network, including Rupert Murdoch himself and primetime hosts Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham. The prospect of these people taking the witness stand and having to explain them away could not have been appealing for Fox.


One reason that Dominion succeeded in getting this far while other defamation plaintiffs have not is that the underlying false claims made against the company were unusually ridiculous — like the assertion that former Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez had played a key role in creating the company, or that Dominion had a secret algorithm that allowed it to switch votes from Trump to Joe Biden. The company’s lawyers also appeared to have succeeded in casting a wide net in the course of discovery, which allowed them to obtain the internal communications that became central to the case. Murdoch, for instance, at one point watched the infamous press conference hosted by Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell in November 2020 in which they peddled similar falsehoods. The network’s owner wrote, “Really crazy stuff. And damaging.” There were plenty more of these colorful and embarrassing exchanges among the network’s boldface names.


In recent months, Fox had insisted that a victory for Dominion would pose a broader threat to media protections in this country, but it is not clear whether or to what extent this is correct. The reason is that, despite hundreds of pages of pretrial filings, Fox never managed to identify a single instance of legitimate newsgathering that would have been credibly endangered in the future if Dominion prevailed, as the company has now done. And, of course, the backdrop here is that Fox’s business model has for years drawn intense criticism from media analysts who have argued that the network routinely crosses the boundaries of responsible reporting by pandering to its mostly conservative audience and elevating dubious but politically convenient claims.


The settlement appears to have less to do with other media outlets than it does with the particularly outrageous facts and circumstances surrounding the conduct of Fox, its executives, and employees toward Dominion. This was a stunning case of media malpractice, and Fox is now paying for it.

lying, you bet ya ... ya just can't make it up then call it the truth and keep pushing it as being the truth ... in this day and age no mail-in ballot can be counted that isn't a real ballot... anyone with a brain knows this ... seems it has escaped the minds of our repiublican voters ... who in my opinion are dead between the ears ...

 

[krichton]

Do you seriously not know that the reason why the Trump voter fraud commission didn't work out ? On May 11, 2017, Trump signed an executive order creating the “Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity.” Vice President Mike Pence was the chair, and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, was the vice chair.

The reason it didn't fly was because the elections are state functions, and the states simply declined to participate. Sure, why would they do that, only to have everyone take a good look at all the fraud they allowed to be seen by everyone ?

Nope, those commissions actually concluded their investigations and found that dead people weren't voting in either Georgia or Michigan. Unsurprising since what are the odds that someone would find evidence to support a lie that you aka Trump made up on the spot because you were desperate to win?

 

[FA_Q2]

There;s also the Blaze, the First, OAN, America's Voice, and many conservative radio stations.

None of them will take on Tucker. If he had worked for any of those other outlets the lies he knowingly endorced would have outright killed them. No, I doubt Tucker will end up at another outlet.

He has the popularity and the captured audience that he will, IMHO, go the Crowder rout and create his own content directly. He will earn more in the long run that way anyway as his audience more than large enough.

They do not have much to offer him that he does not already have.

 

[Calypso Jones]