Based on this revealing and somewhat shocking (but not totally shocking) is that Rupert Murdoch and his FOX/Media Corp. etc. just pack up and go back the Aussie land and well, well, just retire and enjoy life.
This
very revealing legal part of the story about FOX being sued for lying about the 2020
election for a long time is coming to a legal head for FOX News and Rupert Murdoch – that story is here from Business Insider here with this headline:
“Rupert Murdoch suggested FOX News hosts Carlson,
Hannity, and Ingraham go on air and say Joe Biden had won 2020 election, court
filing says”
· Rupert Murdoch suggested three FOX News hosts
could go on air and declare Biden the winner in 2020.
· Messages between FOX News top brass suggest they
knew Trump lost, but still aired conspiracy theories.
· The filing, part of Dominion's defamation
lawsuit, reveals the inner-workings of Fox post-election.
The complicated dynamics of billionaire media mogul Rupert
Murdoch's family have long been the subject of public intrigue.
The name Murdoch is synonymous with influence and media, and the
family empire includes FOX News, The Wall Street Journal, The Times of London,
and other news organizations around the globe.
The conversations between FOX News chiefs were revealed in a
200-page filing on February 16 by Dominion Voting Systems lawyers as part of
their defamation lawsuit against the network.
On January 5, 2021,
Murdoch emailed FOX News CEO Suzanne Scott saying: “It's been suggested our
prime time three should independently or together say something like 'the
election is over, and Joe Biden won. That would go a long way to stop the Trump
myth that the election was stolen.”
Scott then forwarded Murdoch's suggestion to Meade Cooper, the primetime programming SVP writing: “I told Rupert that privately they are all there — we need to be careful about using the shows and pissing off the viewers but they know how to navigate.”
The lengthy filing makes revelations about the inner workings of the FOX News network following the 2020 election.
Text messages and emails between FOX hosts and executives reveal that while they privately accepted that Donald Trump had lost the election, the network continued to air pro-Trump conspiracy theories about election fraud.
Murdoch himself privately described the election fraud claims as “damaging
and crazy,” according to the court filing.
When Trump became president, Murdoch, and his media outlets,
particularly FOX News, supported him in what was often described as a marriage
of convenience. However, the relationship fractured over the years, and in 2020
FOX News was the first network to call Arizona in favor of Biden, infuriating Trump.
The rift between Trump and the Murdoch has continued to widen, particularly following the Republican Party’s lackluster performance in the 2022 midterm elections, which was widely blamed on Trump.
Despite this,
many FOX News hosts have continued to express public deference towards Trump.
Dominion's defamation lawsuit seeks $1.6 billion in damages and
claims that FOX News pushed a conspiracy theory that the election-technology
company helped rig the 2020 presidential election for its own commercial gain.
Dominion claims that this led to their business and employees suffering.
FOX News has previously denied the charges and said that it reported fairly on the election and its aftermath. A FOX News spokesperson told Insider: “Dominion's motion for summary judgment takes an extreme and unsupported view of defamation law and rests on an accounting of the facts that has no basis in the record. Dominion has mischaracterized the record, cherry-picked quotes stripped of key context, and spilled considerable ink on facts that are irrelevant under black-letter principles of defamation law.”
(My insert: Of course that statement is utter BS).
My 2 Cents: As I said up front
Rupert Murdoch should pack up and go back to his homeland and free us from his
networks blatant propaganda and lies for surely it is and has been for decades,
but now as they say: The chickens have come home to roost.
Many readers will harshly criticize this lawsuit against FOX saying it’s an attack on their First Amendment free press right – it may seem that way for the loyalists who stick by them as they stick with Trump, but that does not even come close to exposing their hypocrisy and flip-flopping and now revealed in the words of Hannity, Carlson, Ingraham, and other FOX program hosts.
The fact is that if
someone likes FOX and their reporting the truth will not dissuade them to seeing or hearing what they want hear and see. They are as Trump once said: “I love the poorly educated.”
I hope FOX loses this
case for the full amount – they deserve and have earned that loss.
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