With a $787.5 million settlement for its election lies, Fox News has avoided the legal and moral punishment of a court verdict.
Source: Fox News Settlement: Dominion Was Not Going to Save Democracy
A lawyer for Dominion celebrated the agreement, saying "Money is accountability."
Rubbish. The Fox Corporation has an estimated value around $17 billion. The settlement amounts to a cost of doing business for Fox.
The
settlement also means that Fox’s major figures — including Rupert
Murdoch, the chairman of Fox Corporation, and Fox hosts Tucker Carlson,
Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, and Maria Bartiromo — won’t have to
testify. (Robert Reich)
Right-wing network pays dearly to keep Murdoch and Tucker Carlson off the stand. But there’s more trouble ahead
Source: Fox News saves itself from grueling trial with last-minute $787.5M settlement | Salon.com
Source: Fox News Settles Dominion Defamation Lawsuit With No Admission Of Their Lies | Crooks and Liars
Proclaiming that it would never lie to its audience, Fox News has told viewers that Dominion Voting Systems has dropped its defamation case, issued an apology and agreed to pay the news network $787.5 million.
Source: Dominion agrees to pay Fox News $787 million, Fox News reports | The Shovel
It’s business as usual
If you pay for cable or satellite TV, you’re subsidizing Fox News, whether you watch it or not.
Meanwhile, Fox’s stock price took a brief three percent dip when the settlement was announced on Tuesday. Within 24 hours, it was back to where it had been beforehand and indeed was trading at almost exactly where it had been on Election Day 2020.
Source: Who’s Paying Fox’s $787.5 Million Settlement With Dominion?
Dominion is still going after Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, but their incompetence, as manifest as it is, appears more comical than dangerous. We may get to see them twist and sweat dark bullets down their foreheads, but they’ll both claim bankruptcy and neither of them has a reputation left to be destroyed. My hope now is that Smartmatic, which has the next defamation suit up, gets the empty suits of FOX News on the stand and we can get a better grasp of the horror show that is that network. If they take a big enough chunk of cash in a settlement from FOX, instead of pushing onto the courtroom at all costs, perhaps the double hits will do fatal harm to the network, or, even better, corporate advertisers will be embarrassed to be associated with determined liars.
Doesn’t seem like much to ask.
Source: Deport Murdoch – » The Australian Independent Media Network
On Tuesday night the council shot down an urgency motion to overturn the decision, which was met by calls of “shame” by some members of the public who were present.
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