Billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch acknowledged in a deposition that several Fox News anchors “endorsed” former President Donald Trump’s baseless claims of fraud in the 2020 presidential election...
Murdoch said in the deposition—which took place last month, but snippets of which became public in a Delaware court filing by Dominion Voting Systems Monday—that he believes Fox executives should have taken a bigger role in toning down the claims frequently presented on prime-time Fox News programs following the 2020 election, saying: “I would have liked us to be stronger in denouncing it in hindsight.”
At one point, Murdoch explained the decision to let Lindell run ads for his company, MyPillow, as a strictly financial—rather than political—move, saying: “It is not red or blue—it is green,” according to Monday’s court filing.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasre ... ud-claims/A separate Dominion court filing earlier this month included text messages from Hannity, Ingraham and Carlson and other anchors apparently acknowledging they knew the election fraud claims were not true. “No serious lawyer could believe what they were saying,” Ingraham said of Giuliani and Powell’s appearances, calling Giuliani “such an idiot” and Powell a “complete nut.”
I just listened to a Smerconish podcast that had even more details - like how Fox News execs sent Lindell a gift when he started whining about Fox being complicit in voting fraud, and how they invited him on the network to spread his BS basically because he was a big advertiser. And how Paul Ryan, a board member on Fox, was trying to push executives to take a more active role in quashing this nonsense, but that the on-air personalities were afraid if they did so they would lose their audience.
These news outlets make money by telling you what you want to hear. It's at least as prevalent on the right as it is on the left. I don't really want to hear about "mainstream media bias" until you're willing to acknowledge right-wing media bias, which in the above case included blatant misrepresentation.
Based on what I'm reading in this Dominion case, I suspect Fox is in for a rough time at the courthouse in the coming days. Btw, has there ever been a left wing media scandal as egregious as this? I can't think of one.