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FOX News Is Going to Have a Hard Time Overcoming the OVERWHELMING Evidence in the Dominion Lawsuit.
The bill is coming due for Fox News for having recklessly, repeatedly, and maliciously spread flagrant falsehoods to support Donald Trump's Big Lie over election fraud. Dominion Voting Systems has just announced that they are suing Fox for defamation to the tune of $1.6 billion.
The Associated Press is reporting that Dominion's case argues that "the cable news giant falsely claimed in an effort to boost faltering ratings that the voting company had rigged the 2020 election." The story goes on to note that...
"The lawsuit is part of a growing body of legal action filed by the voting company and other targets of misleading, false and bizarre claims spread by President Donald Trump and his allies in the aftermath of Trump’s election loss to Joe Biden.
Those claims helped spur on rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 in a violent siege that left five people dead, including a police officer. The siege led to Trump’s historic second impeachment."
This lawsuit against Fox News follows on to Dominion's previously announced suits against Trump attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell (who is adopting the Tucker Carlson Defense), as well as Mike Lindell, the infamous MyPillow Guy.
And Fox News has also been sued by Smartmatic, a voting software services company that alleges similar defamation in Fox's election reporting.
Fox News is going to have a hard time defending itself from these lawsuits. There is an abundance of evidence that supports the claims, and most of it consists of video from Fox News itself.
Their program hosts and guests relentlessly made baseless charges against Dominion on the air.Here are some the featured headings:
Dominion Was Used to Rig the Election for President Joe Biden and the Company Has Done This Before Dominion Is of Venezuelan Origin, Created at the Request of Hugo Chavez to Alter Election Results in Furtherance of an International Conspiracy
Dominion’s Scheme Was Run by a Deputy of George Soros
Kickbacks Were Paid to State Officials -- Including Those in Georgia - to Utilize Dominion Machines
Smartmatic Owns Dominion and Its Software Is Embedded in Dominion Machines
Dominion Machines Are Unreliable and Cannot Be Truly Audited
In addition to this lawsuit, Dominion's lawyers say that they are continuing to explore legal options that could include naming Fox News hosts such as Sean Hannity, Lou Dobbs, Jeanine Pirro, Maria Bartiromo, and more.
The list of defendants could even extend to include Trump. Which would only be fair. There must be consequences for knowingly disseminating slanderous lies. And that is what Fox News does every day. This lawsuit should just be the first of many more to come.
NOTE: Trump tried to peddle his Big Lie about election fraud again on Laura Ingraham's show Thursday night. But Ingraham cut him off.
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Fox News' slate of commercials targeting fat, bald, impotent men get the John Oliver treatment.
John Oliver did a collection of some of the commercials airing on Fox News in the middle of the night that the show noted tell you exactly who is watching their channel.
The first was for Urolift, which begins, "Men, over 35, do you have the frequent need to urinate?"
The next was for male sexual enhancement, purporting to "work the very first time."
As does some kind of "Force Score XXL."
There was also an ad telling men that they can "be the man you want to be."
Then it was followed by another over the counter medication that can help reduce the need to urinate as much. As an FYI for men, there's an actual prescription your doctor can give you for that.
"Guys! What happened to your roar?" another ad says showing a lion followed by an adorable kitten.
Then something about hair loss, another about frequent bathroom trips and "guys, it's that time, and nothing's happening."
In the end, Fox News makes it clear that the only people watching their network at that hour is likely fat, bald, impotent and has to pee constantly.
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Subject: Re: FOX Mon Apr 26, 2021 6:53 pm
4-26-2021
Fox gently acknowledges that its coverage about Biden supposedly trying to force Americans to eat less red meat wasn't accurate: "A graphic and a script incorrectly implied that it was part of Biden's plan for dealing with climate change. That is not the case."
This is the formula for Fox. It screams a lie on many of its shows, gets people to believe it, and then quietly admits it wasn't accurate while few people are listening.
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Subject: Re: FOX Thu Apr 29, 2021 7:32 pm
4-29-2021
Fox News hires Trump official with ‘absolutely no journalism experience’ as DC editor.
According to an announcement from Fox News, the network is hiring Kerri Kupec, who served as former Attorney General Williams Barr's spokesperson during the Trump administration, saying she will be involved with story selection and will work under the Vice President of DC news, Doug Rohrbeck.
"Ms. Kupec will participate in story selection under the oversight of Mr. Rohrbeck. She is the former director of public affairs and counselor to Attorney General William Barr where she served as chief spokesperson for the Department of Justice," the network said in an announcement.
But in a tweet this Thursday, the Daily Beast's Justin Baragona says Kupec has "absolutely no journalism experience" and shared a link to her Linkedin profile. .… https://t.co/Spx7gnweAD — Justin Baragona (@Justin Baragona)1619726706.0
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Subject: Re: FOX Mon May 10, 2021 12:54 am
5-8-2021
Beware the deadly new disease spreading across America: ‘Foxitis’.
Fighting Foxitis; For decades a debilitating disease has been spreading across America. Risk factors include being over 65, Republican and white. Symptoms include unhinged muttering, delusional thinking and an irresistible urge to storm the Capitol. The disease is called “Foxitis” and a lawyer called Joseph Hurley, who is representing alleged US Capitol rioter Anthony Antonio, wants us to believe his client is suffering from it.
Antonio lost his job at the beginning of the pandemic and spent the next six months sitting at home watching Fox, Hurley told a DC court on Thursday. “He became hooked with what I call ‘Foxitis’ or ‘Foxmania’ and … started believing what was being fed to him.”
According to Hurley, Fox brainwashed Antonio into believing Trump wanted him to march on Washington as part of a patriotic movement.” Now Antonio is facing five charges over his role in the January riot. That said, while it may not end up getting a judge’s seal of approval, “Foxitis” is no joke. Unlike affluenza, another disease-defense dreamed up by a lawyer, Foxitis is something we should all take very seriously indeed.
Fox may not be able to take over your brain and force you to do things in the same way that weird parasite that turns ants into suicidal zombies does, but it is hard to overstate the network’s outsize influence.
A number of studies suggest that Fox News’s coverage of the pandemic, which was characterized by racism and misinformation, may have caused its viewers to take the coronavirus less seriously, for example, with consequences to public health.
Now Tucker Carlson, who was one of the few Fox News hosts who actually took the pandemic seriously early on, is diversifying his usual racist rants with dangerous anti-vaxxer propaganda. Weirdly, he never seems to mention that his boss, Rupert Murdoch, was one of the first people in the world to get the vaccine. Murdoch got his jab in the UK in December 2020: the King of Misinformation got vaccinated three weeks before the Queen of England.
Fox isn’t just a danger to public health, it’s a danger to democracy. It spent months amplifying Donald Trump’s lies about the integrity of the 2020 election; Antonio and his fellow alleged rioters shouldn’t be the only ones on trial: Fox should be too.
And, to some degree they are, the network has been sued for $1.6bn by the North American voting machine company Dominion, which has accused the network of defamation. Media Matters has also started a campaign, unfoxmycablebox.com, urging people to ask cable carriers to drop Fox News from their packages.
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Subject: Re: FOX Sat May 29, 2021 11:10 pm
5-30-2021
FOX News Seeks to CRIMINALIZE Fact-Checking to Preserve Their 'Right' to Lie.
t's official! Fox News is declaring war on reality. They are so consumed with "alternative facts" and constructing phony scenarios to advance their ultra-rightist agenda that they have launched an all-out assault on {gasp} fact-checkers. Because the greatest threat to a dedicated purveyor of propaganda is the truth that is embedded in facts.
To a network like Fox News, facts are subversive agents of credible journalism. So in an effort to shield themselves from the embarrassment of being exposed to honesty, Fox has taken an aggressive stance against it.
An op-ed that was published on their website asserts that fact-checkers are dangerous because "they have the power to censor what journalism Americans see and consume unilaterally." Of course, a fact-check would reveal that that isn't true. Fact-checkers merely hold the media accountable for mistakes and/or deliberate lies. The primary argument made in the article is that...
"Nobody is checking the fact checkers, and it is time that changed. It’s time for government to regulate the fact checking industry. We cannot be slaves to orthodoxy if that means Americans are subject not only to lies, but also the censorship of the truth." Lying and censoring the truth are long-time components of the Fox News mission statement.
So naturally, the notoriously conservative pundits at Fox News, who abhor government regulations, are now advocating for "government to regulate the fact checking industry." Even worse, they are exempting fact-checkers from protection by the First Amendment. While generously conceding that the Constitution shields the press, the article claims that "third party independent fact checkers are another story entirely." Journalists would regard fact-checkers as members of the press.
Their political and ideological leader, Donald Trump, has been documented telling more than 40,000 lies during his term in office. The occurrence of presidential misstatements has declined 85% in the first 100 days of President Biden's term. Nevertheless, Fox News favors the sledgehammer of government regulation to pound down the fact-checkers. The article highlighted this solution to the imaginary problem:
Another fundamental absurdity in the article is the author's constraints on what constitutes a fact. If fact-checkers don't adhere to his definitions then "they are no longer fact checking and should not be allowed to claim the service they are selling is doing so."
Then can we also apply that logic to journalism, and if it doesn't adhere to the truth then they couldn't claim to be "news"? If so, Fox would have to drop "News" from their name (((a good idea in any case))). And to put a cherry on top of it, the article closed.
And all the while they are disseminating blatant lies about election fraud (particularly Trump's Big Lie), the Capitol Hill insurrection, and the COVID-19 "hoax.".
So it's no wonder that they are desperate to shut down the fact-checkers. They're tired of being held to standards of truthfulness that step on their "right" to deceive their dimwitted cult followers.
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Subject: Re: FOX Sun May 30, 2021 3:16 pm
5-30-2021
How Fox News falsely linked Black Lives Matter to the militant Hamas.
On May 17, some Black Lives Matter activists tweeted, "Black Lives Matter stands in solidarity with Palestinians" and voiced their support for "Palestinian liberation." That tweet made no mention of the militant Hamas, but that fact, according to Media Matters reporter Chloe Simon, didn't stop Fox News from acting as though it did.
The following day, on May 18, a Fox News article by Michael Ruiz ran with the headline, "Black Lives Matter says it stands with Hamas terrorists in Israeli conflict." Fox News later changed that headline to "Black Lives Matter 'stands in solidarity' with Palestinians, vows to fight for 'Palestinian liberation','
Simon explains, "Fox News' original headline, which relayed a wholly inaccurate portrayal of the tweet, was left up overnight.
Fox changed the headline the next day to correctly reflect BLM's tweet supporting the Palestinians, but by then, many of its affiliates had already posted the piece with the original headline.
It took even longer for Fox to add an editor's note at the bottom of the piece noting the headline change after Forbes and Reliable Sources reached out to the network.
Fox's false characterization of BLM's support prompted some prominent right-wing figures to promote a fake connection between the BLM movement and Hamas fundamentalists."
According to Simon, "Fox News contributor Joey Jones repeated the lie that 'Black Lives Matter now supports Hamas' without any pushback from co-anchors Dana Perino and Bill Hemmer." And Infowars' Owen Shroyer, she adds, used the original headline in a May 19 broadcast.
Republican attorney Jenna Ellis, who promoted former President Donald Trump's false and debunked claims of widespread voter fraud after the 2020 election, tweeted, "BLM Inc. is literally endorsing terrorism." Ellis' use of the word "terrorism" is ironic in light of her role in pushing the Big Lie, which led to the violent January 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol Building by far-right extremists.
Other far-right wingnuts who promoted Fox News' false claim that BLM had endorsed Hamas included Tomi Lahren, Newsmax's John Cardillo and Mercedes Schlapp (a former Trump campaign adviser).
Well of course BLM stands with Hamas-terror organizations stand by other terror organizations. Duh. — Tomi Lahren (@Tomi Lahren) 1621448079.0 At the bottom of Ruiz's article, Fox News added, ____"EDITOR'S NOTE: This report's headline was updated to more closely reflect the Black Lives Matter tweet."
READ THIS FOX SHIT-- WHAT THE FUK IS WRONG WITH THOSE FOX PEOPLE!
We get it, you are scared shitless of Fox News. Don't hide from the truth and facts.
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Subject: Re: FOX Wed Jun 02, 2021 11:07 pm
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We get it, you are scared shitless of Fox News. Don't hide from the truth and facts.
Fox is total conspiracies and propaganda-- It is State TV, we don't have that in a democracy. Fox is akin to Russian, Iran, No. Korea TV. That is the none journalist talk show commenters spreading propaganda.. It's mainly old senile people tuning in, their brains are diseased.
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Subject: Re: FOX Wed Jun 09, 2021 4:17 am
6-9-2021
Fox News refuses to run Capitol riot ad — but was it really political censorship. (((youtube below)))
Fox News has rejected an advertisement that features video clips of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, along with testimony from police officers who were attacked or injured while attempting to hold back fervent Trump supporters as they breached the doors of Congress. The ad was created by MeidasTouch, a liberal activist organization and PAC.
"We made a $184,854 TV buy with this ad on Fox News this week. Fox News just denied airing our ad," the liberal organization tweeted on Sunday.
Fox News is the most divisive, dishonest and damaging institution in the United States. It has poisoned our democracy with conspiracy theories and lies while stoking division and fear.
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Subject: Re: FOX Fri Jun 11, 2021 11:17 pm
6-11-2021
Charge Fox News executives with ‘crimes against humanity’ and ‘election interference’: Newsmax hosts.
On Newsmax Friday, longtime conservative internet talkers turned talk show hosts Lynnette Hardaway and Rochelle Richardson, better known by their stage names "Diamond and Silk," tore into Fox News during a segment about James Murdoch donating to left-wing causes, saying that their executives should be charged with "crimes against humanity" and "election interference."
"First of all, where's the FEC?" said Hardaway. "This is why what happened on election night in 2020 happened. It was the executives making the decision, in my humble opinion. Even when it comes down to this pandemic and allowing Fauci to spew lies and to give us misinformation, these executives went along with it."
"I think these executives should be charged with crimes against humanity, and also with election interference," continued Hardaway. Richardson agreed, suggesting that politics was also behind Fox News' decision to cancel their own program, since they were a "powerful voice" for Trump. In fact, Fox News fired them for pushing COVID-19 conspiracy theories including that the virus may have been "man-made" or delivered to people through 5G cell towers.
Trump and his allies have increasingly fallen out with Fox News as the right-wing network has slowly seen its viewership bleeding to newer, more right-wing upstarts including Newsmax. Fox News cut ties with "Diamond and Silk" in 2020 for pushing a conspiracy theory about the coronavirus death toll.
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Newsmax hosts (and former Fox hosts) says Fox News executives should be charged with "crimes against humanity" and… https://t.co/TlFwt88GjZ — Jason Campbell (@Jason Campbell) 1623448795.0
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Subject: Re: FOX Wed Jun 23, 2021 9:31 pm
6-23-2021
Fox News triggered after highest-ranking military officer calls out fake culture war: 'Go after their budget'.
Fox News hosts were triggered Wednesday night after Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) was owned by military leaders calling out the absurdity of the fake culture war conspiracy around "critical race theory."
A slate of school board and city council meetings have turned into shoutings matches in the past week after Fox News announced its latest culture war issue.
They've gone from being against masks to against vaccines to attacking Mr. Potato Head and Dr. Seuss, and now they've come up with a law school theory they've convinced viewers is being taught in Kindergarten.
Gen. Mark Milley, the 20th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, flattened Gaetz and conservatives who have waged war against intellectualism. They have passed local state laws that ban the teaching of things they can't even explain when the media asks them.
Milley put them in their place saying that reading something by a communist doesn't make him a communist.
Lashing out at Milley, Laura Ingraham told viewers of "The Ingraham Angle" that the military budget should be cut in retaliation.
Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL) appeared on the show and nodded along with Ingrahm as she advocated slashing the military budget. It's unclear if Waltz supports defunding the military, he hasn't released a statement on it.
Civil war at Fox News as host fires opening salvo against Tucker Carlson's gossiping.
A civil war within the Fox News ranks broke out on Thursday evening, with host Sean Hannity melting down on-camera over reports fellow primetime star Tucker Carlson has spent years dishing to other media outlets about internal goings-on at the network.
The drama started with a muckraking column from New York Times media columnist Ben Smith, outlining the ways Carlson has served as an important source for a wide variety of outlets that he's spent years railing against publicly.
"Tucker Carlson Calls Journalists 'Animals'" the article's headline reads. "He's Also Their Best Source."
Hannity apparently didn't take too kindly to the activity outlined in the report, and used his considerable bully pulpit to make his feelings known Thursday night by lashing out at everyone involved.
The longtime Fox host set aside a good chunk of his show to repeatedly blast the New York Times, and Smith himself, over their alleged failings in reporting on the campaign and presidency of former President Donald Trump.
The longtime Fox staple also made a point to mention a follow-up report from the long-running pop culture newsletter "Pop B****," which wrote that Tucker has been gossiping with reporters specifically about Hannity — with no love lost between the conservative cable network's marquee stars.
"Turns out one of Tucker's favourite topics to chuckle about with his MSM mates is how much of a cringing Trump sycophant Sean is," the outlet wrote. "Have fun in the green room together, chaps!"
Smith retweeted a screenshot of the newsletter, adding an emoji of two eyes — something Hannity mentioned in detail during his rant.
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Subject: Re: FOX Fri Jun 25, 2021 6:11 am
‘Coward’ Tucker Carlson Torched For Calling Top U.S. General ‘A Pig’ And ‘Stupid’
The Fox News host said Mark Milley was not brave or respected after the top military official defended teaching critical race theory.
Fox News host Tucker Carlson slung mud at Gen. Mark Milley, the nation’s highest-ranking military officer, calling him “a pig” and “stupid” after the Army general defended the teaching of critical race theory in the military a day earlier.
“Mark Milley is the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,” the conservative personality said on “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” “He didn’t get that job because he’s brilliant or because he’s brave, or because people who know him respect him. He is not, and they definitely don’t.
“Milley got the job because he is obsequious. He knows who to suck up to, and he’s more than happy to do it. Feed him a script and he will read it.”
After playing a clip of Milley’s comments at a House Armed Services Committee hearing Wednesday, Carlson commented that he found it “hard to believe that man wears a uniform, he’s that unimpressive.”
“He’s not just a pig, he’s stupid,” he added after a second clip.
Milley, who has been in the Army for more than 40 years, served in Iraq and Afghanistan and holds degrees from Princeton, Columbia and the Naval War College.
He said Wednesday that he thought it was important for members of the military to be open-minded and well-read, including on the subject of critical race theory.
It came in response to a suggestion from Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) that the U.S. military is becoming too “woke,” in part because it’s embraced teachings about the ways in which racism is embedded in societal structures.
“I’ve read Mao Tse-tung. I’ve read Karl Marx. I’ve read Lenin. That doesn’t make me a communist.'
So what is wrong with understanding? Having some situational understanding about the country for which we are here to defend?”
Though Fox News often claims a mantle of American patriotism, it’s not even the first time this year that Carlson has insulted service members. In March, he earned rebukes from top defense leaders after he showed a pregnant woman in uniform and called it a “mockery of the U.S. military.”
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Subject: Re: FOX Mon Jun 28, 2021 10:06 pm
6-28-2021
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Tucker Carlson makes shocking accusation: NSA is 'monitoring' me in plot to take Fox show 'off the air'.
On Fox News Monday, Tucker Carlson went completely off the rails with a claim that the National Security Agency is spying on his show as part of a plot to have him deplatformed.
"Yesterday, we heard from a whistleblower within the U.S. government who reached out to warn us that the NSA — the National Security Agency — is monitoring our electronic communications, and is planning to leak them in an effort to take this show off the air," said Carlson.
"Now, that's a shocking claim, and ordinarily we'd be skeptical because it is illegal for the NSA to spy on American citizens. It's a crime. It's not a third-world country. Things like that should not happen in America."
"But unfortunately, they do happen, and in this case they did happen," continued Carlson. "The whistleblower, who is in a position to know, repeated information back to us about a story that we are working on, that could have only come directly from my texts and emails.
There's no other possible source for that information. Period. The NSA captured that information without our knowledge, and did it for political reasons. The Biden administration is spying on us. We have confirmed that."
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Subject: Re: FOX Tue Jun 29, 2021 9:54 pm
6-29-2021
NSA schools Fox News host Tucker Carlson for his lie they're spying on him: It's not what we do.
Fox News host Tucker Carlson was flattened by the National Security Agency (NSA) in a statement Tuesday night, calling it a lie that he has been under investigation in some kind of government plot to end his show.
"On June 28, 2021, Tucker Carlson alleged that the National Security Agency has been 'monitoring our electronic communications and is planning to leak them in an attempt to take this show off the air.' This allegation is untrue.
Tucker Carlson has never been an intelligence target of the Agency and the NSA has never had any plants to try to take his program off the air," said the NSA in a statement.
"NSA has a foreign intelligence mission. We target foreign powers to generate insights on foreign activities that could harm the United States. With limited exceptions (e.g. emergency), NSA may not target a US Citizen without a court order that explicitly authorizes the targeting."
If Tucker Carlson was under investigation and his communications were being monitored, it would likely be the FBI doing it. While it might seem absurd, Carlson's name was invoked by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) during an interview. Gaetz recalled Carlson meeting a young woman and having dinner with her. It was the same woman that is alleged to be underage and that Gaetz is accused of paying for sex. Gaetz denies all of the accusations.
Other than that, under the umbrella of the Department of Justice, the FBI doesn't seek to bring down specific television shows that they don't enjoy.
Lawyers for Fox New have argued in the past that no person can reasonably believe anything Tucker Carlson says on his show.
See the full NSA statement below:
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Subject: Re: FOX Wed Jun 30, 2021 3:34 am
Fox News Agrees to $1 Million Fine for Violating Human Rights Law Lloyd Grove,The Daily Beast Tue, June 29, 2021, 11:00 AM·
Despite Fox News’ claims to have repaired the company’s toxic workplace culture since the firing of founder and chairman Roger Ailes in July 2016, Rupert Murdoch’s media empire has effectively admitted to ongoing misconduct that includes sexual harassment, discrimination, and retaliation against victimized employees, and has agreed to pay a million-dollar fine for what New York City’s Commission on Human Rights called “a pattern of violating of the NYC Human Rights Law.”
The settlement agreement, reached last week with the human rights commission, contains the largest-ever financial penalty assessed in the agency’s six-decade history, and also requires Fox News to remove mandatory confidential arbitration clauses from the contracts of on-air talent along with other employees and contributors for a period of four years when they file legal claims under the city’s human-rights law outside of the company’s internal process.
It “also demands immediate changes to policies surrounding reporting sexual harassment, retaliation, training, and compliance with the NYC Human Rights Law,” according to a statement from the commission, which added: “The Commission will monitor the network on a quarterly basis for a period of 2 years to ensure compliance.”
Among the policy changes required by the Commission, the network has agreed to provide all employees with a clear definition of “retaliation” and training for bystanders to intervene in incidents and to properly report any witnessed misconduct.
Labor lawyer Nancy Erika Smith, who represented former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson in the sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit that cost Ailes his job (and won Carlson a $20 million settlement from Fox News’ parent company 21st Century Fox), called the right-leaning cable channel’s settlement agreement, especially its admission of guilt, “monumental.”
Until now, “I’m not aware of any government agency requiring an employer to stop silencing victims of discrimination, harassment, and retaliation, and that’s what NDAs and arbitration do—they silence victims,” Smith told The Daily Beast. “So bravo! Finally! The government is seeing that silencing victims protects harassers.”
Smith, who expressed disappointment that the anti-mandatory arbitration provision lasts only for four years and not permanently, said Fox News’ settlement agreement belies the claim of Ailes protege Suzanne Scott, since May 2018 the chief executive of Fox News Media, that—as Scott told The Los Angeles Times in April 2019—she was working hard to change the corporate culture that treated secret 7-figure and 8-figure payouts to the harassment victims of not only Ailes but also of fired star anchor Bill O’Reilly as the cost of doing business.
“I felt devastated for the women who work here,” Scott told the Los Angeles Times. “I wanted to do everything I could to heal this place.”
“Suzanne Scott has always been instrumental since the beginning of Fox News in a culture founded on misogyny and enabling harassment, discrimination, and retaliation,” Smith said. “So anybody who thought she changed it in any way is extremely naive or uninformed.”
Noting that the claims considered by the commission predated Scott’s promotion to CEO after her decades as a Fox News executive, a different Fox executive fired back, “These are legacy matters and our cooperation and resolution reflects Suzanne’s commitment to a culture of compliance.”
Concerning the settlement agreement, a Fox News spokesperson emailed The Daily Beast: “We are pleased to reach an amicable resolution of this legacy matter. FOX News Media has already been in full compliance across the board, but cooperated with the New York City Commission on Human Rights to continue enacting extensive preventive measures against all forms of discrimination and harassment.”
The Commission said Fox News’ million-dollar civil penalty was based on the maximum fine of $250,000 for each of four violations cited in the settlement agreement—“a figure reserved for willful and wanton violations of the law.” The statement added, “The Commission ascertained that a pattern and practice of violations took place at Fox.”
The Commission said it began its investigation of Fox News in July 2016 amid the bombshell news accounts of Ailes’ workplace sexual misconduct with female employees in the aftermath of Carlson’s lawsuit. Ailes, who left the network with a $40-million severance package and briefly advised the presidential campaign of Donald Trump, died less than a year later, at age 77, in May 2017. The Commission ultimately filed its formal complaint against Fox in December 2018.
“FOX News Media has worked tirelessly to completely change the company culture over the last five years. Under the leadership of CEO Suzanne Scott, the network has implemented annual, mandatory in-person harassment prevention training, created an entirely new reporting structure, more than tripled the size of our HR footprint, started quarterly company meetings and mentoring events, as well as implemented a zero-tolerance policy regarding workplace misconduct for which we engage outside independent firms to handle investigations,” the network added in a statement. “No other company has implemented such a comprehensive and continuous overhaul, which, notably, earned FOX News Media recognition as a 'Great Place to Work' for the first time in its existence, a testament to the many cultural changes that Ms. Scott has instituted during her tenure as CEO.”
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Subject: Re: FOX Thu Jul 01, 2021 4:19 pm
7-1-2021
Giuliani’s emails with Fox News demanded in $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit by voting company:
Bloomberg News reported Thursday that in the lawsuit between Dominion Voting Systems and Rudy Giuliani, lawyers are seeking emails between the defendant and Fox News.
Dominion is suing Fox News, Rudy Giuliani, Mike Lindell and MyPillow and Sidney Powell after those individuals spread lies that the company's equipment stole the election as part of a plot involving a long-dead leader of Venezuela.
Those involved are alleged to have done lasting damage to the company's name with unfounded conspiracy theories prompting the $1.6 billion litigation.
"The former New York mayor and Donald Trump's personal lawyer was asked to hand over all documents stemming from his appearances on Fox starting in 2016 as well as all communications with the network related to the 2020 presidential election and Dominion, according to a June 28 filing in state court in Delaware," said the report.
The subpoena outlines any communications about the voting machines company while he was spreading the comments across Fox News and Fox Business in wake of the 2020 election.
All documents whether true or false, "whether formal or informal, compensated or uncompensated" are being sought, according to the subpoena.
Giuliani is working to dismiss the lawsuit he's facing as well as investigations from the Justice Department involving foreign work he did in Ukraine and Turkey.
Tucker Carlson erupted with 'spying' claims shortly after he tried using 'Kremlin intermediaries' to score Putin interview.
Fox News host Tucker Carlson's claims that the American government illegally spied on him reportedly came shortly after he reached out to "Kremlin intermediaries" living in the United States to help him score an interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Axios's Jonathan Swan reports that Carlson's attempts to interview Putin came under US officials' radar, although it's not clear how they found out about it.
"On Wednesday, Carlson told Maria Bartiromo on Fox Business that only his executive producer knew about the communications in question and that he didn't mention it to anybody else, including his wife," notes Swan. "But, of course, the recipients of Carlson's texts and emails also knew about their content. And we don't know how widely they shared this information."
Even though Carlson was working with Kremlin intermediaries, he insisted to Swan that he was illegally spied upon.
However, intelligence experts who spoke with Swan say that "a more plausible scenario is that one of the people Carlson was talking to as an intermediary to help him get the Putin interview was under surveillance as a foreign agent."
Tucker Carlson may get his own 'whistleblower' thrown in jail: Former FBI official,
Fox News host Tucker Carlson freaked out when he discovered that his communications with a Russian operative allegedly raised flags at the NSA. He claimed that a whistleblower came to him and said that he was being monitored by the NSA.
The NSA released a statement saying that he's not a target of any of their investigations, but didn't deny that his emails had been seen while talking to Russians.
Former FBI assistant director of counterintelligence, Frank Figliuzzi, and former top Robert Mueller prosecutor and Justice Department criminal fraud investigator Andrew Weissmann.
Figliuzzi said that he's "not convinced at all that this whistleblower exists," speaking of the person who told Carlson about the emails.
"What better way for Tucker Carlson to cover his rear end, because he's called a Russian intelligence officer or intermediary for the Kremlin?" he explained.
"He gets worried about it. He decides to go on the offensive and announce that 'the NSA is listening to me' and have them try and deny it. I think it's a good cover. There's something much larger going on here.
Another page in the playbook of folks like Tucker Carlson and the GOP who want to continue to erode the public's trust in their institutions. If you keep doing that enough the objective is you can't trust your institutions and the career professionals and then the only people you can trust are us. And you get to reshape the truth into your own version of reality. That's what's going on here."
Weissmann said that Carlson isn't the first person to have been allegedly spied on. It was revealed over the past month that reporters at the New York Times, CNN and Washington Post were all targeted by Donald Trump in 2017 as he attempted to find a leaker. Trump even had the FBI monitor Democrats in Congress, their staff, their family and even their children.
Weissmann said that Carlson should have gone to the Justice Department and talk to them about what was being done to ensure the First Amendment right to a free press was being followed. It's what the New York Times did when there was a suspicion of the Justice Department monitoring their calls.
"They could have gone to the attorney general and Tucker Carlson could have joined them to say what I'm concerned about here is not that there was incidental collection when I am calling a foreigner, including if you try to reach out to Vladimir Putin.
You can pretty much be sure you're going to be at high risk of being intercepted," said Weissmann. "He did, as you said and as Frank pointed out he wanted to use this for his own purposes and to sow distrust which is so anti-American.
Instead of raising a legitimate issue about safeguards in the system when you're dealing with journalists to make sure that this is not something that senior officials in the department are making sure this was done responsibly." One of Carlson's greatest problems is that he's not actually a journalist.
As Fox News explained in court, no reasonable person would believe anything Carlson says on his show. It's perhaps why Figliuzzi questions whether this so-called whistleblower exists.
Figliuzzi noted that he has concerns about even acknowledging that this could be real because it seems fishy to him.
"I don't know what the truth is when it comes to Tucker Carlson's assertions," he confessed. "But, yes, look, if he's talking to people who have a governmental function or act on behalf of foreign adversary government officials like Vladimir Putin, it is possible --
I don't want to get into the highly classified details, but it's possible that he was talking with targets in some way, shape or form. Whether they were here on U.S. soil or whether it was something that had to be approved by a FISA court or even perhaps U.S. persons who are representing Vladimir Putin or the Russian government is really not relevant to me as long as the rules were followed."
The missing piece for him is whether there was really a whistleblower or if it was something Carlson made up.
"Were there violations -- and, again, even as I say this I'm giving credence to someone who deserves no credence at all," Figliuzzi confessed.
"Were the rules followed in terms of mask being and unmasking? In my 25 years running counterintelligence for the FBI it is a major deal to get a U.S. person's name unmasked.
Very few people have access to that inside the NSA. The idea somebody saw Tucker's name being passed around or they had access to it and they leaked it to him, let me say this, if that person even exists, they're going to be arrested for passing top-secret information. But I'm not sure that person exists."
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Subject: Re: FOX Sun Jul 11, 2021 3:27 am
8-10-2021
Fox News paid to sponsor CPAC —
The Fox Corporation sponsored the second 2021 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) to an extent that the company received Fox Nation branding on the lanyards with convention credentials.
Despite the company paying to sponsor the conference, it is receiving backlash from Trump supporters still livid over the fact the network correctly declared Joe Biden winner of the 2020 presidential election.
Further right outlets like Newsmax, OAN, and RSBN have been gaining in strength after Fox lost the trust of some Republicans who believe Trump's "Big Lie" about election fraud.
"While interviewing RSBN's Brian Glenn, two families approached their CPAC booth and praised RSBN, adding that they had 'lost all faith in Fox [News]' and now only tune into RSBN."
"One common thread from CPAC Dallas: attendees are fed up with Fox News, despite Fox Nation being one of the gathering's largest sponsors. Four out of seven folks I asked about their feelings on Fox told me they will never watch the network ever again," Petrizzo added.
Some attendees don't even want to wear the Fox-branded lanyards.
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Subject: Re: FOX Sun Jul 11, 2021 3:32 am
Temple wrote:
8-10-2021
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Some attendees don't even want to wear the Fox-branded lanyards.
Great reporting Temple.
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