“Trump insisting on the election being stolen and convincing 25% of Americans was a huge disservice to the country. Pretty much a crime. Inevitable it blew up Jan 6th,” Murdoch continued. ‘Pretty Much a Crime’: Murdoch Blamed Trump Directly For Jan. 6 Riot in Newly Released Emails https://www.mediaite.com/news/prett...medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark
"Fox News" and "Brain Room" -- two phrases that should never be used in the same sentence. Here’s what Fox News was trying to hide in its Dominion lawsuit redactions https://www.aol.com/news/fox-news-aired-dominion-voting-183741557.html Ten days after the 2020 election, Fox News' so-called Brain Room looked into conspiracy theories that Dominion Voting Systems had rigged the presidential election against Donald Trump. The fact-checking and research division of the network came back with a clear decision: Those claims were false. But the misinformation went on the air anyway. Details of the Brain Room's fact-check were revealed Wednesday in newly released slides from a presentation by Dominion, which the company showed at last week's pretrial hearing in its $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News and its parent company, Fox Corp.The slides cite internal communications and testimony. Fox News had redacted the Brain Room findings, but the judge ordered Tuesday that they be made public. Testimony from Fox’s own executives underscored the importance of the Brain Room’s role in verifying information that goes on the air. “If the brain room had concluded that the charges were, in fact, false, they never should have been aired, correct?” a Dominion lawyer asked David Clark, Fox News’ senior vice president for weekend news and programming, in a deposition on Oct. 21. “Yes,” Clark replied. Dominion argues that it was severely damaged by claims put forward by Fox News hosts and guests suggesting the voting machine company tipped the 2020 presidential election in favor of Joe Biden. “These documents once again demonstrate Dominion’s continued reliance on cherry-picked quotes without context to generate headlines in order to distract from the facts of this case. The foundational right to a free press is at stake and we will continue to fiercely advocate for the First Amendment in protecting the role of news organizations to cover the news," a Fox spokesperson said in a statement. Here are more findings from the Dominion presentation: Rupert Murdoch said Trump's claims about the election were 'pretty much a crime' In an email to Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott on Jan. 20, 2021, Murdoch expressed his shock at Trump's insistence that the election was stolen from him. "Trump insisting on the election being stolen and convincing 25% of Americans was a huge disservice to the country. Pretty much a crime. Inevitable it blew up Jan 6th," he wrote. "Best we don't mention his name unless essential and certainly don't support him." Fox News CEO said fact-checks about election claims are 'bad for business' On Dec. 2, 2020, Scott sent an email to Meade Cooper, the executive vice president of prime-time programming, complaining about a fact-check on Trump’s voter fraud claims by Fox News anchor Eric Shawn. Scott said she was worried it would alienate viewers. “This has to stop now,” Scott wrote. “The audience is furious and we are just feeding them material. Bad for business.” The email was originally redacted by Fox News but released publicly Wednesday. A Fox News spokesperson said Wednesday that Scott was not opposing fact-checking itself. “ This is not about fact checking — the issue at hand is one host calling out another," the spokesperson said. 'None of that is true as far as we can tell' Another slide reveals a previously redacted text exchange between host Bret Baier and Fox News President Jay Wallace, in which Baier asks on Nov. 5, “How is that ok? None of that is true as far as we can tell.” “We need to fact check this crap. It would help us,” Wallace replied. 'We have to go to a full on war' The day before Fox News host Maria Bartiromo put Sidney Powell on the air in a lengthy interview centering on election conspiracy theories, Bartiromo wrote her producer a frenzied email. "We have to go to a full on war. They have used all systems to defraud," she wrote. "The country needs to survive. We have to keep this president. Noone thinks anyway that people voted for Biden." In fragmented claims, she said that the fraud was "sophisticated" and that Dominion voting machines "adds on thousands of votes." "Evidence- yes we have," she said, noting there were photos of a man sticking thumb drives in voting machines. "Nancy pelosi has an interest in it. It's also directed by Soros," she added.
Just to add to gwb's post, A whole thread on this including some goodies : November 20, 2020 email from Jeanine Pirro's executive producer to Fox executives saying that a pre-taped Pirro monologue "is rife w conspiracy theories and bs and is yet another example why this woman should never be on live television." Tucker Carlson's team discussing an upcoming interview with Mike Lindell -- "He's definitely crazy" but "has bailed us out loads of times when no one else would" with ads. --- --- That's why I call FOXNews: White News, White Now!
The Dominion situation just keeps getting worse for FOX and their commentators. Ex-Fox Producer: There Are Secret Rudy Giuliani Recordings About Dominion In an amended legal complaint, Abby Grossberg said that Fox News failed to provide Dominion with several audio recordings she made featuring Giuliani and other Trump allies. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ex-fo...ecret-rudy-giuliani-recordings-about-dominion
Fox shareholder sues Rupert Murdoch, other directors over 2020 election coverage https://www.reuters.com/legal/fox-s...ctors-over-2020-election-coverage-2023-04-12/ April 11 (Reuters) - A Fox Corp (FOXA.O) shareholder sued Chairman Rupert Murdoch and four other board members on Tuesday, saying they failed to stop Fox News from reporting falsehoods about the 2020 U.S. presidential election that damaged its credibility and prompted lawsuits. Shareholder Robert Schwarz alleged in the lawsuit filed in Delaware Chancery Court that the directors breached their duties to ensure that Fox followed its own ethical standards and avoided reputational risk, and instead sought to keep supporters of former U.S. President Donald Trump tuned in. "FOX knew – from the Board on down – that Fox News was reporting false and dangerous misinformation about the 2020 Presidential election, but FOX was more concerned about short-term ratings and market share than the long-term damages of its failure to tell the truth," he said in the lawsuit, which did not say how many shares he owned. A Fox representative did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The lawsuit seeks damages for the company from Rupert Murdoch, his son and Fox Chief Executive Lachlan Murdoch, and fellow directors Chase Carey, Roland Hernandez and Jacques Nasser. It also seeks unspecified corporate governance reforms. Schwarz said the board's failure to act on "red flags" subjected the network to defamation claims by two voting technology companies that Fox reported were involved in a conspiracy to steal the U.S. presidential election from Trump. Together, the two lawsuits by Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic USA seek damages totaling $4 billion. The trial in the Dominion case is scheduled to begin in Delaware Supreme Court with opening statements on Monday and is expected to last five weeks. Dominion alleges that Fox destroyed its business by knowingly airing false claims that its ballot counting machines were used to flip the results of the 2020 election. Fox has argued that election-rigging claims by Trump and his lawyers were inherently newsworthy and protected by legal doctrines concerning press freedom. In March, a trove of exhibits in the lawsuit became public, including emails and statements in which Rupert Murdoch and other top Fox executives said the claims made about Dominion on-air were false. The shareholder lawsuit cited filings in the Dominion lawsuit, which said Murdoch had acknowledged under questioning from Dominion lawyers that some Fox hosts had "endorsed" the idea that the election was stolen. Murdoch said in the deposition he believed Biden won fairly. The case is Schwarz v. Murdoch et al., No. 2023-0418, Delaware Chancery Court.
How are things going for Fox in the Dominion lawsuit? Fox attorney: "[Fox News'] hosts are going to make the argument that they didn't make the statements" Judge: "If you argue that, I will turn to the jury and say [you are] incorrect" Judge, Fox attorney clash over TV hosts' testimony in Dominion defamation case https://abcnews.go.com/US/judge-fox-attorney-clash-tv-hosts-testimony-dominion/story?id=98506661
Too bad the government is not interested in suing FOX for their promotion of the BIG LIE by Trump. The sad part, we have a lot of idiots that still believe in the BIG LIE including a dozen or so active ET members that still market the BIG LIE here at the forum although not as much lately. wrbtrader
It will be hard for Dominion to prove they have damages...I dont think they have lost any revenue or business