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@suzianne saidFox probably figured that if they didn't make a good offer and the trial went ahead, the jury would have awarded significantly more than 787 mio. to Dominion. Fox lost face significantly, and there's no way they can spin this into any kind of victory for freedom of speech or responsible journalism.
Wasn't the original suit for $1.6 billion?
Seems they got off easy.
@shavixmir saidThe silence of the political right-wing speaks volumes.
Yuuuuhoooooo... Republicans...
Let's hear you're grovelling apologies.
On yer knees and admit that you were duped. Come on.
Show us you're real men.
@moonbus saidFox could have tied up any jury award for years with appeals.
Fox probably figured that if they didn't make a good offer and the trial went ahead, the jury would have awarded significantly more than 787 mio. to Dominion. Fox lost face significantly, and there's no way they can spin this into any kind of victory for freedom of speech or responsible journalism.
It's more likely they didn't want Murdoch, Carlson and the rest giving public testimony under oath given the internal documents already made public. That would have been a PR disaster especially because they would have undoubtedly had to have disavowed the election conspiracy claims that the bulk of their audience clings to.
@no1marauder
In other words, Fox avoided the dilemma of reality check vs. perjury. I can’t wait for Trump to face the same.
@moonbus saidThere's an excellent article in the Atlantic explaining why Fox News decided to swing so hard to election denialism even though hardly anybody there believed it:
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In other words, Fox avoided the dilemma of reality check vs. perjury. I can’t wait for Trump to face the same.
"Before it settled, Dominion did the public a service by revealing so much about Fox’s inner workings through the lawsuit. We learned, for example, that the MAGA star Tucker Carlson “hate[d Donald Trump] passionately” and knew that the Trump lawyer Sidney Powell was “lying.” We learned that Murdoch deemed Trump’s lies about the election being stolen “crazy stuff.” Altogether, the evidence appeared to show that Fox knew well that it was broadcasting false and malicious material.
The discovery materials also explained why Fox did so: The company was terrified of losing its audience to smaller rivals such as One America News Network and Newsmax. In the immediate aftermath of the 2020 election, Fox was in the vanguard of reporting reality. It was the first network to call Arizona for Joe Biden, and thus to assert that he would defeat Trump. The network’s reporters, who tend to stick closer to the news than its talk-show hosts, debunked lies about fraud.
The result was an exodus of the viewers who had made Fox into the most powerful news organization in America and by far the leading cable outlet by ratings. For years, some liberals had believed that if Fox simply told the truth, its viewers would change their minds. Instead, they changed the channel.
Fox personalities and executives panicked as ratings fell. When one reporter fact-checked a Trump tweet about Dominion, Carlson called for her head. “Please get her fired,” he wrote in a text chat with Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham. “It needs to stop immediately, like tonight. It’s measurably hurting the company. The stock price is down. Not a joke.” Murdoch pushed journalists involved in calling the election for Biden out of Fox.
In their panicked state, Fox’s leaders may not have realized how costly these decisions could be—either to its own finances or to the country, as the January 6 insurrection demonstrated—but they must have understood that they were taking a risk. Fox executives calculated that they could afford to lose anything but their viewers, including a defamation case, and they seem to have been right."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/news/fox-news-lost-the-lawsuit-but-won-the-war/ar-AA1a1KO4
The truth isn't what people like Average Joe, Mott, JJ and many others want to hear.
@no1marauder
It ain't over either. There is another suit in the pipeline, another voting machine company, and they are demanding over 2 billion in damages. What we didn't learn about Fox's inner workings from the Dominion suit, we may yet learn from the next one.
@no1marauder saidOops, mistyped a TD on my tiny smart phone screen. Meant to hit TU. Thanks for citing the article.
There's an excellent article in the Atlantic explaining why Fox News decided to swing so hard to election denialism even though hardly anybody there believed it:
"Before it settled, Dominion did the public a service by revealing so much about Fox’s inner workings through the lawsuit. We learned, for example, that the MAGA star Tucker Carlson “hate[d Donald Trump] passi ...[text shortened]... /ar-AA1a1KO4
The truth isn't what people like Average Joe, Mott, JJ and many others want to hear.
@shavixmir saidDenial runs deep. Especially denial denial.
Hey!
Where are our right-wingers?
Surely they have something to say on this matter?
And just listen to Trump, he’s like a broken record.
@shavixmir saidMaybe we should sue them. The payment being they have to preface everything they say with, "sorry we fell for Fox's lies" and then make their post.
More importantly, really, is the question:
Are the conservatives who posted thread after thread about a stolen election and dominion going to stand up and apologise to us? Or are they gonna double down and stick to their guns, even though they know it’s all lies?