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Fox’s Primetime Hosts Completely Ignored the Dominion Settlement

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Publication Date:     20 april 23
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Stephan:  

As soon as I heard about the judgment against criminal Trump I immediately wondered how the Fox propaganda operation would treat the story and tuned into Fox. Except for a clip on an interview with Howard Kurtz who said a total of one sentence about Fox losing, there was not a word in the hour I watched while MSNBC, CNN, ABC, and BBC dedicated multiple segments to the case. If all someone watched was Fox and they didn’t happen to be looking at the Kurtz clip at the moment he said his single sentence they might not even know about the judgment or that Fox had lost. The largest settlement in American history and Fox hid it from their viewers. But the lies they tell, that led to the settlement, they spew out endlessly.


Fox propaganda personalities Bret Baier, Martha MacCallum, Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham, and Sean Hannity Credit: AFP

Fox  agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems $787.5 million in a last-minute settlement on Tuesday that spared the network the humiliation of a publicized defamation trial. If you get your news coverage from Fox’s prime-time stars, however, you’d have no idea it happened.

The outcome of the lawsuit was not mentioned once between the hours of 7 and 11 p.m. on Tuesday night — a block of time that includes network headliners Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham, and Sean Hannity, all figures who were implicated in Dominion’s case against Fox.

Over the course of pretrial discovery, internal Fox News communications released to the public revealed the extent to which anchors and executives knew that the conspiracies about Dominion’s role in carrying out fraud in the 2020 election were false.

In text exchanges obtained by Dominion, Carlson, Hannity, and Ingraham mocked the claims being shopped out by Trump lawyers Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani, and questioned […]

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