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Fox News knew they were lying about election

novaphile said:
Didn't Fox news fight a court case to allow them to run lies as factual news?

There's no surprises left after that surely?
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I think you mean this case.

Snopes: Did Fox News Sue for the 'Right to Lie'?

David Mikkelson said:
The case at hand did not involve the national Fox News Channel; rather, it was a breach of contract lawsuit filed by two reporters against their former employer, Tampa Bay television station WTVT. (The situation was somewhat more complicated because WTVT was an affiliate of the Fox television network and was also owned by Fox, but the Fox television network and the Fox News Channel are two distinctly different entities.)
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The basis of the case was a contract dispute and retaliation. At no point was the question considered or adjudicated of whether any news agency, FOX or otherwise, had the legal right to publish falsehoods as news. It simply wasn't a part of the case.
 
gnome said:
I think you mean this case.

Snopes: Did Fox News Sue for the 'Right to Lie'?




The basis of the case was a contract dispute and retaliation. At no point was the question considered or adjudicated of whether any news agency, FOX or otherwise, had the legal right to publish falsehoods as news. It simply wasn't a part of the case.
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That is not the case at all.

Try this one.

https://www.findlaw.com/legalblogs/...y-believes-tucker-carlson-is-reporting-facts/

ETA: It was about Karen McDougal, another one of Trump's girlfriends that was paid off by the National Enquirer.
 
Fox New's game is well understood.

Their opinion shows make stuff up.
Their "News" shows then report on people talking about the stuff they made up.
 
Fox's method, pretty much forever, has been to have on a "guest" spouting some nonsense, e.g. "Obama is a Muslim who hates Amerika", toss a couple of softballs at him, then, when challenged say "What? No, not us. We didn't say that! Just getting both sides!"
 
Trebuchet said:
Fox's method, pretty much forever, has been to have on a "guest" spouting some nonsense, e.g. "Obama is a Muslim who hates Amerika", toss a couple of softballs at him, then, when challenged say "What? No, not us. We didn't say that! Just getting both sides!"
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All one needs to do is watch Sean Hannity's non-reaction when Trump tells him that the upcoming election is going to be rigged against him.

President of USA claims election will be rigged against him.
Hannity: "Wow cool"

Most journalists or interviewers would have jumped all over that claim. Not Hannity.

The fact that Rump was too stupid as President to stop a fraudulent election is just another reason he was never fit for the job. He's that ******* stoopid.

Fox is anti-American.

* I typed Rump accidentally but I'm leaving it.
 
slyjoe said:
That is not the case at all.

Try this one.

https://www.findlaw.com/legalblogs/...y-believes-tucker-carlson-is-reporting-facts/

ETA: It was about Karen McDougal, another one of Trump's girlfriends that was paid off by the National Enquirer.
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I don't think that fits the description either. The ruling was that the prosecution in this case failed to reach a sufficient burden of establishing defamation against a particular plaintiff. There was not a ruling on the overall issue of truthfulness in broadcast journalism. I think that's a common misinterpretation of some court decisions.
 
JoeMorgue said:
Fox New's game is well understood.

Their opinion shows make stuff up.
Their "News" shows then report on people talking about the stuff they made up.
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Then they spend lots of news time interviewing their own people who made stuff up.

Then the opinion shows spend all their time discussing the TV news reports of the interviews of their own people who made stuff up.

CCC - Closed Circle Of Crap
 
From the Yahoo news link:
Tucker Carlson also grew angry when a Fox News reporter fact-checked a Trump tweet accusing Dominion of election fraud. The reporter, Jacqui Heinrich, wrote in response to Trump's tweet that top election officials had determined "there is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised." Carlson dropped Heinrich's tweet into a group chat with Ingraham and Hannity, per the filing, and told Hannity: "Please get her fired."
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Make no mistake, I'm sure this revelation will not bother Carlson in the slightest. He's a propagandist, not a journalist.
 

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The most prominent stars and highest-ranking executives at Fox News privately ridiculed claims of election fraud in the 2020 election, despite the right-wing channel allowing lies about the presidential contest to be promoted on its air, damning messages contained in a court filing revealed. The messages, included in a legal filing as part of Dominion Voting System’s $1.6 billion lawsuit against Fox News, showed that Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, and Laura Ingraham brutally mocked lies being pushed by former President Donald Trump’s camp asserting that the election was rigged.
Damning messages reveal Fox News' executives mocking Trump's lies (CNN on YouTube, Feb 17, 2023 - 4:05)
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So it turns out that Fox News is nothing more than a right wing propaganda machine.

What a shocking revelation.
 
Knowing that their slander was lies, is the key to a libel civil suit. Fox is going down!!!

Traitors that they are.
 
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