A few days ago, Peter Baker of the New York Times authored a piece called “Inside the Panic at Fox News After the 2020 Election,” leading with the following quote from Fox News Chief Executive Suzanne Scott: “If we hadn’t called Arizona, our ratings would have been bigger.”
“What if lying was your job?” is the story about how telling the truth—just this one albeit pretty important time—triggered an avalanche of lies that almost completely crippled an innocent company and might cost the Fox empire … well I wonder how many pretty pennies make a billion.
Sadly, I majored at City College in American Literature, not pre-Law, and never had a cousin Vinny, so I’ve been catching up by reading the many hundreds of pages of the Dominion voting machine company’s lawsuit that was filed against Fox News on March 26, 2021 in Delaware Superior Court. After reading their brief, it is no surprise to me that Dominion turned to the court to demand justice for all the pain they experienced as a result of Fox’s willingness to broadcast and, by extension, to amplify the disingenuous and deceitful claims of people like Rudy Guiliani, Sidney Powell, Mike Lindell, and Donald Trump himself.
I envy the exhaustive nature of the research Dominion did and the compelling way they organized the material. They reveal exactly what Fox’s guests said on these broadcasts, and quite importantly show how Fox hosts so often conducted their interviews more as sympathizers than independent fact-finders and...
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