Analysis: Fox News has been exposed as a dishonest organization terrified of its own audience

[Grant]

Fox News has been exposed like never before.
A trove of newly-released text messages and emails have laid bare how the right-wing media giant operated with little regard for fact in the weeks and months following the 2020 presidential election. The correspondence reveals that the network’s senior-most executives and highest-profile hosts chose not to disclose what they believed to be the truth of the election out of fear that that the facts would alienate Fox News’ audience and throw the highly profitable business into ruin.
The messages were contained in a stunning legal filing made public on Thursday as part of Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion lawsuit against Fox News, showing the network’s executives and talk hosts privately trashing lies pushed by former President Donald Trump’s camp and his supporters asserting the 2020 election was rigged.
But, despite privately acknowledging the realiity of the situation, the network allowed the lies to take hold on its air, in large part because executives and hosts were terrified that telling its sizable audience the truth would prompt them to tune out.
In a statement Thursday night, Fox News argued that the court filing contained cherry-picked quotes lacking context.

“There will be a lot of noise and confusion generated by Dominion and their opportunistic private equity owners, but the core of this case remains about freedom of the press and freedom of speech, which are fundamental rights afforded by the Constitution and protected by New York Times v. Sullivan,” the network said.

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/17/business/fox-news-dominion-lies/index.html

 

[ShaunSA]

"Journalists"

 

[theratman]

 

[KatieKim]

I'm sure this will convince many right wingers nutters to stop watching Fox and start watching the leftist propaganda tool called CNN.


This reminds me I need to see if Eskom is letting me record Fareed tomorrow.

 

[PsyWulf]

leftist propaganda tool called CNN.

 

[konfab]

Leftists: Fox News is dishonest and spreads misinformation

Also leftists:

A transgender man who gave birth with the help of fertility treatment lost his legal fight to be registered as the child’s father, rather than its mother, in the UK High Court on Wednesday.

Born female, Freddy McConnell transitioned to become a man and was legally recognized as male when he became pregnant in 2017, giving birth in 2018.

The 32-year-old took legal action after a registrar told him that UK law required people who give birth to be registered as mothers on birth certificates.



https://edition.cnn.com/2019/09/25/uk/transgender-man-high-court-gbr-intl/index.html

 

[Vorastra]

 

[LetsDance]

Coming from CNN? The irony is rich in this one. Those are the Israeli supporting/ bring on the immigrants crowd. The former point is hushed though even on Fox. Still pining for the days of slavery.

 

[6spdmanual]

Both CNN and Fox are a joke in my view.

 

[Tokolosk]

Both CNN and Fox are a joke in my view.

This. Everyone saying "leftist" this or "rightwing" that is being blind to the hypocrisy of their own camp. It's all about the views and the money, they need to stop thinking it's about them.

 

[Pak Fa Fui]

Fox created their audience now they are afraid of them

 

[Crowley]

Both CNN and Fox are a joke in my view.

Read both and go with the middle ground.

 

[Moosedrool]

CNN is just the opposite of fox. MSNBC is the opposite of breitbart.

It’s all stupidly selective on what they report and extremely loaded to make their audience feel smart.