Rupert Murdoch testified under oath that Fox News promoted election lies on air, despite a raft of evidence revealing that many hosts privately knew the claims made by then-President Donald Trump and his surrogates to be false. Stunning new details emerged in more court documents released Monday afternoon in Dominion Voting System’s defamation lawsuit against Fox News. As chairman of Fox News parent company Fox Corporation, Murdoch is a central figure in the $1.6 billion damages claim against the cable news ratings giant. According to a copy of the filing obtained by Mediaite, Murdoch admitted in a deposition last month that false election claims were promoted by top hosts at the cable news network. “They endorsed,” Murdoch said. “I would have liked us to be stronger in denouncing it in hindsight.” Murdoch said “I think so” when asked if host Jeanine Pirro endorsed the claims. He said Lou Dobbs endorsed the claims “a lot,” and Sean Hannity did so “a bit.” When asked if he could have told Fox to stop inviting Trump lawyers Sydney Powell and Rudy Giuliani on the air, Murdoch replied: “I could have. But I didn’t.” Also revealed? Murdoch helped the Trump campaign by providing Biden television ads to Jared Kushner before they were run on Fox News: But after things started to go south with traditional Fox News viewers unhappy with its coverage, Murdoch met with Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott and Lachlan Murdoch about how to win back viewers. No longer booking Democrats was allegedly part of the strategy: Fox News released a statement roughly the same time these documents were released that reads: Dominion’s lawsuit has always been more about what will generate headlines than what can withstand legal and factual scrutiny, as illustrated by them now being forced to slash their fanciful damages demand by more than half a billion dollars after their own expert debunked its implausible claims. Their summary judgment motion took an extreme, unsupported view of defamation law that would prevent journalists from basic reporting and their efforts to publicly smear FOX for covering and commenting on allegations by a sitting President of the United States should be recognized for what it is: a blatant violation of the First Amendment.” https://www.mediaite.com/tv/breakin...r-oath-fox-news-hosts-promoted-election-lies/
Fox chief Rupert Murdoch said network aired 2020 election conspiracies for the money: court documents In one excerpt from Rupert Murdoch's deposition, "Rupert confirmed that he could tell FNN to stop running Lindell's advertisements, 'But I'm not about to.' ... and when asked why Fox continues to give a platform to Lindell — who continues to this day to spout lies about Dominion — Murdoch agreed that 'It is not red or blue, it is green." ... Lindell brought—and brings— Fox a lot of green.
Right.... So all the GOP cultists were conned!!!??? Who woulda thought that....NEVER! Can't believe it for one second! They were conned! Bugger me. All these ET'ers conned???
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/28/media/fox-news-dominion-damages/index.html Fox faces an ‘existential threat’ from its multibillion-dollar defamation cases
Legal experts say Fox News on shaky legal ground in Dominion lawsuit https://thehill.com/homenews/media/...ws-on-shaky-legal-ground-in-dominion-lawsuit/
We the jury find the defendant guilty of shaky election claims and award the plaintiff a bowl of jello.
Let's take a look at a fine example of a FOX employee. Busted: Fox News producer behind network’s crime fearmongering has criminal past https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/b...e-fearmongering-has-criminal-past/ar-AA18ragT A Fox News producer who has had a hand in promoting the right-wing network’s crime wave narrative himself has a criminal past, The Daily Beast reports. Tom Lowell had a role in a 1986 South Florida liquor store burglary that concluded in a drug bust, according to documents obtained by the news outlet. Although police described the burglary as “extensive,” Lowell, got a “slap on the wrist,” the report said. A Fox News spokesperson told The Daily Beast that incidents occurred decades ago and that Lowell has since turned his life around. “This incident took place nearly 40 years ago and is nothing more than a cheap shot at Tom, a stellar journalist, who has worked incredibly hard on his recovery and rebuilt his life after overcoming addiction,” the spokesperson said in a statement. Lowell was 26 at the time of the liquor store burglary, which occurred Jan. 7, 1986 in West Palm Beach, the report said. He is now 62. According to police records obtained by The Daily Beast, Lowell was driving a 1977 Plymouth Volare he’d borrowed from his girlfriend’s father with his friend David M. Frey, with a stolen sawed-off shotgun they in the trunk, the report said. They targeted a liquor store that shared a wall with a hardware store. The liquor store’s alarm company captured an audio recording of the burglary in which the two men are heard instructing each other about what they should and shouldn’t take from the business, indicating that Lowell was no bystander, the report said. “They started out in the hardware store then broke into the liquor store. They came in through the roof,” Walter Morris Jr., the son of the couple that owned Moore’s Liquors, told the news outlet. The two men used a steel rod from the hardware store to break into the liquor store, and a large chisel and a hammer to break into the cash register, the report said. They stole a snub-nosed Smith & Wesson revolver that Walter Morris Sr. kept beneath the counter for protection, the report said. “My dad’s been missing his .38 forever,” Morris Jr. said, according to the report. “He never got it back,”