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So it's settled then...
Author: BobR
Date: 04/19/2023 12:49:20
It was going to be the trial of the year (until TFG's case gets going in court). Dominion Voting Systems sued FOX "News" because of the relentless lies told by the network about hacked and inaccurate voting equipment. This was all in service to TFG's claim that the election was stolen. The lies were spewed by everyone on air, from the little-known hosts all the way up to the marquee "stars", as well as numerous guests. It was a cesspool of deliberate misinformation (AKA: lies), spewed by a purported news organization, because party is thicker than honesty and integrity (not that there was any of that previously at FOX "News").
Much to the chagrin of those of us who would have LOVED to see Hannity, Tuckums, and Ingraham have to testify, a settlement was reached where FOX had to pay Dominion $787 MILLION. That is a hefty sum. This isn't one of those "jury-award" cases where the dollar amount could be reduced on appeal. They agreed to pay that amount to stop the process. This means that:
Naturally, this has been all over the airwaves... except (of course) on FOX "News" itself:
So FOX is trying to use the "nothing to see here - move along, please" tactic to avoid acknowledging to their viewers that they lied to them consistently and knowingly. And yet - they still have the gall to use the word "News" in their name as if they still have any veracity left.
M-three-toes-TG had a hot take on all this that was - as always - poorly thought out and met with ridicule:
The responses were swift and brutal, such as this one by Bob Cesca: "Hey, ding dong, food critics aren't allowed to falsely claim the kitchen was filled with rats, auto critics can't falsely say a car exploded, conservatives can't falsely claim they found severed penises in their Bud Light cans. But whatever, keep embarrassing yourself, ding dong".
Yeah, that pretty much sums it ALL up.
Much to the chagrin of those of us who would have LOVED to see Hannity, Tuckums, and Ingraham have to testify, a settlement was reached where FOX had to pay Dominion $787 MILLION. That is a hefty sum. This isn't one of those "jury-award" cases where the dollar amount could be reduced on appeal. They agreed to pay that amount to stop the process. This means that:
- FOX knew it would lose the case
- They might have been afraid of having to pay more had it been a jury trial
- They didn't want their stars to have to testify under oath
Naturally, this has been all over the airwaves... except (of course) on FOX "News" itself:
Hosts Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity, who had been expected to testify in the Dominion trial, did not reference the settlement, the largest struck by an American media company, during their primetime broadcasts on Tuesday night.
[...]
Fox anchor Neil Cavuto broke into his headline news show "Your World" about 4:30 p.m. ET to report the settlement and read a statement by Fox in which it said it was pleased to have reached an agreement to avert a trial and acknowledged the judge's ruling that the claims about Dominion were false.
Howard Kurtz, the host of Fox News' MediaBuzz show, appeared on Cavuto's show and during "Special Report with Bret Baier." On "Special Report" Kurtz read the Fox statement, but did not include the dollar figure of the settlement.
In response to a Reuters request for comment about Fox's coverage of the settlement, a spokesperson shared the company's statement about the Dominion settlement that aired on Cavuto and Baier's shows.
So FOX is trying to use the "nothing to see here - move along, please" tactic to avoid acknowledging to their viewers that they lied to them consistently and knowingly. And yet - they still have the gall to use the word "News" in their name as if they still have any veracity left.
M-three-toes-TG had a hot take on all this that was - as always - poorly thought out and met with ridicule:
Greene, a strident Trump supporter and conspiracy theorist, tweeted this questionable take on the outcome:
“We have food critics that criticize restaurants, consumer reports that criticizes products, auto critics that criticize automobiles, and conservative Americans have just wrapped up a week of nuking a beer company, but you can’t criticize a voting machine company or you’ll get sued for millions and millions of dollars.”
The responses were swift and brutal, such as this one by Bob Cesca: "Hey, ding dong, food critics aren't allowed to falsely claim the kitchen was filled with rats, auto critics can't falsely say a car exploded, conservatives can't falsely claim they found severed penises in their Bud Light cans. But whatever, keep embarrassing yourself, ding dong".
Yeah, that pretty much sums it ALL up.
