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Subject: Re: FOX Mon Nov 22, 2021 4:52 am

I get AP and BBC for "real" news.

Al Jazeera gets it right as much as MSNBC and CNN does.

Did I say, "right"???

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12-3-2021

'Beyond reckless':
Ex-Fox News employee torches the network for enabling Tucker Carlson's dangerous rhetoric.

A former Fox News political analyst is slamming
the network for its prolonged failure to censor
host Tucker Carlson as he continues to circulate
misinformation and dangerous rhetoric.

On Friday, December 3, Chris Stirewalt appeared on WV Metro News where he shared his perspective on the Fox News, the departure of Stephen Hayes and Jonah Goldberg
as contributors, and the network's unwavering support of Carlson.

Both Goldberg and Hayes recently opted to part ways with Fox News citing their opposition toward Carlson's controversial, conspiracy-driven documentary about
the Jan. 6 insurrection.

"What Steve and Jonah did in giving up compensation and a high visibility post was to put their money literally where their mouth is," Stirewalt said, adding
“What Fox allowed in Tucker Carlson’s documentary, which said that January 6 was potentially a false flag operation undertaken by the federal government and that Americans were being put in Guantanomo over pictures of waterboarding, was beyond reckless and is another mile-marker down the road to the kind of Alex Jones-ian, Infowars-ian garbage that makes it impossible to have any kind of conversation."

He added: "If you can say stuff and not support it — except for with conspiracy theorizing gobbledygook — then that's no good."

He went on to note that Hayes and Goldberg's concerns were focused on Fox News' dismissal of Carlson's actions and lack of journalistic integrity. Stirewalt's remarks come weeks after Carlson's dangerous documentary aired.
The primetime conservative news host faced sharp criticism for the disturbing claims he perpetuated in his segment.

Subject: Re: FOX Fri Dec 03, 2021 3:37 pm

Carlson currently has the top rated cable news show, Temple.

Read the first two paragraphs:

https://ootikof.forumotion.com/t3310-fox-news-tops-november-ratings-but-viewership-decline-continues-across-all-news-networks

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12-8-2021

Fox News under investigation after former host blows the whistle on alleged gender pay discrimination.

Fox News is now under investigation by the New York State Department of Labor after former host Melissa Francis blew the whistle on the network for allegedly systematically underpaying female employees.

The Daily Beast reports that Fox pulled Francis
off the air at a time when she was engaged in a gender-based pay discrimination dispute.

In fact, Francis's dispute with Fox was in arbitration at the time of her removal from the airwaves, which has led her to add a claim of illegal retaliation to her complaint about systematic gender discrimination.

“Ms. Francis filed a charge with the New York State Department of Labor because Fox News has not changed and continues to discriminate and retaliate against women, including those who seek equal pay for equal work,” Francis’ attorney, Kevin Mintzer, explained to The Daily Beast.

Neither Fox News nor the New York Department of Labor would confirm or deny the investigation to The Daily Beast.

Fox has a well established reputation as a hostile work environment for women.

Late Fox News founder Roger Ailes resigned in 2016 after he was buried in an avalanche of sexual harassment allegations filed against him by multiple Fox News employees, including Gretchen Carlson and Megyn Kelly.

The network also had to pay out a massive $32 million to settle harassment claims leveled against former host Bill O'Reilly.

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The Wise And Powerful wrote:: Carlson currently has the top rated cable news show, Temple.

Carlson is a commentator its opinion show-
not a news show.
Carlson is presenting his own narrative, not even one extrapolating from known facts.

The Fox team's legal briefs compared Carlson's show to radio talk-show programs hosted by Don Imus.
And-
The court ruled that "the complained of statements would not have been taken by reasonable listeners as factual pronouncements but simply as instances in which the defendant radio hosts had expressed their views over the air in the crude and hyperbolic manner that has, over the years, become their verbal stock in trade."

''You Literally Can't Believe The Facts Tucker Carlson Tells You.''
So Say Fox's Lawyers.

Fox News was pushing that Carlson is, first and foremost, not a provider of “the news” as we know it, or “facts” as we commonly understand them, and his audience knows this.

They’re apparently in on the gag. Fox News doesn’t label Carlson’s speech parody because that’s embarrassing for a company with the word news
in its name to admit;
it’s not factual journalism because that implies some responsibility for the credibility of the information that you spew.
Instead, Fox News lawyers claim, Carlson is not “stating actual facts” but simply engaging in “
non-literal commentary.

In other words, “any reasonable viewer” doesn’t actually believe what Tucker Carlson is saying to be true. It is therefore unreasonable to take what Tucker Carlson says as truth.
Good note, judge.

''Carlson is a nonjournalist's "
His show is Not news---

Subject: Re: FOX Thu Dec 09, 2021 8:48 am

Man Held As Fox News' Giant Christmas Tree Goes Up In Flames
Lee Moran
Wed, December 8, 2021, 1:52 PM·2 min read

A man is in custody after a 50-foot Christmas tree outside the News Corp. Building in New York, which houses Fox News, went up in flames early Wednesday.

Fox News security spotted the 49-year-old suspect climbing what the conservative network has dubbed its “All-American Christmas Tree” in Fox Square on the Avenue of the Americas at around 12:14 a.m., the New York Police Department told HuffPost in a statement.

“Upon arrival, officers observed the male running from the location and he was taken into custody,” police said. “The investigation remains ongoing.”

Fire crews brought the blaze under control without injuries.

Fox News anchor Shannon Bream covered the fire live on air.

“It appears that our giant Christmas tree there just a couple of minutes ago was completely engulfed in flames,” Bream said.

The tree’s reported 100,000 lights were switched on Sunday for the holiday season.

“We will not let this deliberate and brazen act of cowardice deter us,” a Fox News spokeswoman said in a statement. “We are in the process of rebuilding and installing a new tree as a message that there can be peace, light and joy even in a dark moment like this.”

A live shot of the destroyed tree continued to stream on the Fox News website, set to the sound of festive music, hours after the fire.

Subject: Re: FOX Thu Dec 09, 2021 4:07 pm

The perp:

Subject: Re: FOX Thu Dec 16, 2021 10:36 am

Fox News tops yearly ratings rankings
Wed, December 15, 2021, 1:30 PM

Fox News was the most watched cable news channel in America for the sixth consecutive year in 2021.

Fox averaged 1.3 million in total day viewers this year, compared to 919,000 at MSNBC and 787,000 watching CNN. In prime time, Fox averaged 2.3 million viewers, including an average of 374,000 within the industry's coveted 25- to 54-year-old demographic.

Nielsen data shows that Fox held 44 percent of the cable news audience in total day viewership and 47 percent of audience share in total viewers in prime time in 2021, an increase from last year.

Fox's top-rated program, "Tucker Carlson Tonight," averaged 3.1 million viewers a night this year. Sean Hannity's program, the network's second highest-rated, averaged 2.8 million.

"As we embark on our 20th year as the leader in cable news, the last six of which as number one in all of cable, I am incredibly proud of the unrivaled success we've had at FOX News Channel," Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott said in a statement on Wednesday.

"Not only were we the only network to grow our audience share, but we did so while changing our lineup and transforming the entire late-night television landscape in the process, ensuring our continued momentum for many years to come," she said.

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12-16-2021

There is a ‘direct line’ from Fox News lies to
Trump supporters trying to overturn elections

Fox News has played a critical role in undermining democracy in America by spreading lies about the election that incite violence.

"What did Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham say about the Jan. 6 rioting at the United States Capitol — and when did they say it?
Were they suitably censorious of the violence?
At the time, did their public remarks match their private horror?"
columnist Frank Bruni asked.

"Those questions have been heatedly and extensively hashed out over the days since a House committee released text messages from Jan. 6 in which Hannity and Ingraham, the popular hosts of prime-time shows on Fox News, separately implored President Donald Trump’s chief of staff to get Trump to say and do something to disperse the protesters and quell the violence.

Hannity and Ingraham knew that he had stirred those protesters and could sway them, more so than they ever acknowledged on-air, according to their critics."

The network has received a great deal of scorn for its hypocrisy after Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) read the texts messages into the public record.

"You can delve into the weeds of this or you can pull back and survey the whole ugly yard.
And what you see when you do that —
what matters most in the end — is that Fox News has helped to sell the fiction that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump,
and there’s a direct line from that lie to the rioting.

There’s a direct line from that lie to various Republicans’ attempts to develop mechanisms to overturn vote counts should they dislike the results," Bruni explained.
"That lie is the root of the terrible danger that we’re in, with Trump supporters being encouraged to distrust and undermine the democratic process.
And that lie has often found a welcome mat at Fox News."

Comments by Fox News personality Jeanine Pirro and Fox Business hosts Maria Bartiromo and Lou Dobbs.
"And their evidence?
It was fugitive then, and no one has tracked it down since.
That’s because it doesn’t exist.
It’s a conspiracy-minded, ratings-driven hallucination.
And they’re being motivated and cheered,
both directly and obliquely, by what they see and hear
on Fox News.

I care less about Hannity’s and Ingraham’s precise words on Jan. 6 than about what they and their colleagues on Fox News said before and after, and what they’re saying now. It’s reckless.
It’s subversive. And it’s scary."

Subject: Re: FOX Thu Dec 16, 2021 12:52 pm

Temple wrote:: I care less about Hannity’s and Ingraham’s precise words on Jan. 6 than about what they and their colleagues on Fox News said before and after, and what they’re saying now. It’s reckless.
It’s subversive. And it’s scary."

What he actually said:

Frank Bruni
@FrankBruni
I care less about Sean Hannity’s and Laura Ingraham’s Jan. 6 texts than about what they and their Fox News colleagues say and stir up every week and every day.

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12-17-2021

Former Fox News contributor reveals what
people at the network really think of Trump.

A former longtime Fox News contributor, Jonah Goldberg,
opened up on Tuesday about why he
left the channel last month, claiming that he
could no longer "be complicit in so many lies."

Goldberg's resignation was announced back in November, alongside Steve Hayes, former editor-in-chief of The Weekly Standard.
"Fox News still does real reporting, and there
are still responsible conservatives providing valuable opinion and analysis," the duo wrote at the time.
"But the voices of the responsible are being
drowned out by the irresponsible."

Goldberg and Hayes originally cited host Tucker Carlson's controversial documentary "Patriot Purge" – which explores the Capitol riot through the lens of unproven right-wing conspiracy theories –
as the singular breaking point for their careers
with the channel.

But on Tuesday, in a sharply penned essay in The Dispatch, Goldberg condemned the channel's "lies" more broadly, saying that he'd actually exercised
"a good deal of restraint since news broke that
I left Fox News."

"I know that a huge share of the people you saw on TV praising Trump were being dishonest," Goldberg wrote.
"I don't merely suspect it, I know it, because they would say one thing to my face or in my presence
and another thing when the cameras and microphones were flipped on."

Goldberg also criticized the channel's coverage
of the January 6 panel's findings with respect
to Mark Meadows, Donald Trump's White House
Chief of Staff.
This week, the panel unearthed texts sent by three Fox News hosts – including Laura Ingraham – to Meadows, asking the Trump aide to have the former president call off the Capitol riot as it was unfolding. Though Ingraham publicly condemned the riot, Goldberg wrote, she couldn't bear to admit that it
was incited by Trump – which her texts indicated.

"What she didn't say is that the mob's passions
boiled over because of Donald Trump's lies—
and the megaphone she and her colleagues gave
to those lies," Goldberg wrote.
"From her texts it's reasonable to assume that she believed – rightly – that this mob was Trump's to command because the mob believed it was doing Trump's bidding."

"By the time the cameras went on, Laura was still willing to condemn the president's mob, but not
the president," he added.

Goldberg capped off with an indictment of whataboutism,
saying that the channel's
"audience craved …
whataboutism as an exit ramp from having to
confront the actual facts."

"It wasn't always explicitly whataboutist.
Sometimes the whataboutism was simply implied.

Don't talk about Trump's lies, mistakes, or misdeeds,
just focus on the hypocrisy or hysteria of liberals
who point out Trump's lies, mistakes, or misdeeds.
Eventually, I felt like a cog in the whataboutist machinery."

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12-20-2021

Fox News says employees much show proof of vaccination —
and testing is no longer an option

On Monday, Jeremy Barr of The Washington Post reported
that Fox News is updating its COVID-19 policy to require all
of their employees in their New York City office be vaccinated.

Previously, the right-wing network had a policy
that those wishing not to be vaccinated could
instead submit to regular testing for COVID-19 —
but under the new policy, this is no longer a substitute
for being vaccinated at the New York office.

NEW - Internal memo for Fox staff:
"All workers in NYC who perform in-person work
at an office location, including Fox employees,
must show proof of receiving at least one dose
of a COVID-19 vaccine" by Dec. 27.\n\nTesting
will no longer be alternative to getting vaccine
in NYC.
— Jeremy Barr (@Jeremy Barr) 1640031912

This comes as New York sees a record spike in COVID-19 cases, driven primarily by the spread
of the ultra-infectious Omicron variant — but hospitalizations
are still under control in large
part because of the state's high vaccination rate.
At least 90 percent of Fox News employees are already vaccinated.

Despite its own newsroom policies, many Fox News personalities and anchors are railing against vaccine mandates on their network.

Laura Ingraham calling vaccine mandates an
"anti-freedom" agenda pushing an "experimental
drug on Americans against their will,"
and Tucker Carlson falsely claiming there's "no difference"
in transmission between vaccinated
and unvaccinated people.

One analysis by the left-wing media watchdog group Media Matters found that from April to September, Fox News aired vaccine-critical content every day except two.

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1-14-2022

‘You're all over the map!’ Fox News’ Sean Hannity gets schooled by an economist on his own show.

Fox News' Sean Hannity was no match for economist Austin Goolsbee on Friday night.

Hannity repeatedly tried to attack president Joe Biden over energy production and gas prices, only to be fact-checked by Goolsbee, a professor at the University of Chicago.

"He inherited energy independence, and we were a net exporter of energy, and now he's begging OPEC," Hannity said of Biden at the beginning of the clip.

"He inherited an economic downturn bordering on catastrophe and in times like that, the price of oil tends to go way down, that's for sure," Goolsbee responded.

"We need to focus," Hannity said. "Did he or did he not inherit — well, three vaccines and monoclonal antibodies — did he also inherit that we were a net exporter of energy, and did he cut energy production by 40 percent? The answer is yes."

"No, he did not cut energy production by 40 percent," Goolsbee responded. "Energy production fell because we were in an economic catastrophe — (a) catastrophic downturn."

"No, he fired Keystone XL pipeline workers,"
Hannity insisted.

"The Keystone pipeline wasn't built yet, Sean.," Goolsbee said flatly. "That had no effect on energy production."

"Then why is he begging OPEC?" Hannity said of Biden. "Donald Trump didn't beg OPEC. Why is he begging OPEC?"

"He's not begging OPEC," Goolsbee said.
"He convinced OPEC, and OPEC is increasing their production."

"They keep rejecting him," Hannity claimed.

"They didn't reject him. They said they're increasing production," Goolsbee said.

"Why are you complaining about that, Sean?
You're all over the map here.
You were saying you didn't like to pay high gas prices. I told you gas prices went down and Biden convinced OPEC to increase production, and then you said,
'Why is he asking them to increase production?'"

Watch below.

https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1482184984261582849

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Fox News show in Saturday Night Live opener--
Fox News' The Ingraham Angle in Saturday Night Live's "Cold Open.

Subject: Re: FOX Wed Jan 26, 2022 8:48 am

Fox News outdraws CNN, MSNBC combined for 23rd straight week
MEDIA Published 57 mins ago

https://www.foxnews.com/media/fox-news-outdraws-cnn-msnbc-combined-23

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1-28-2022

Former Fox News anchor explains how network's viewers have been brainwashed

Former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson offered
a damning assessment of the network as she explained just how bad its spread of conspiracy theories and misinformation has become.

During an appearance on the CNN segment, "Democracy in Peril," Carlson discussed many
aspects of Fox News' critical role in the spread
of misinformation and falsehoods. Since former President Donald Trump took office, conspiracy theories have been on the rise and Fox News has become a driving force for it.

Conservative primetime news anchor Tucker Carlson has been at the center of misinformation and the power of his opinion has begun to influence Republican members of Congress.

“This is the result of fake news,” Carlson said.
“You know, we're seeing not only the fallout from fake news during the Trump era, but what happened with the insurrection on January 6th. Now it's moving into other areas. Not just news, now it’s hitting science with vaccines, and now it’s into Cold War politics.”

Carlson also touched on another significant topic as she shed light on the actions of her former Fox News colleagues, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham.
While they reportedly sent pleas to the White House for the violence to stop on Jan. 6, they still put up a united front on-air and circulated a completely different narrative about the series of events that unfolded.

“I think the bigger story coming out of that is how disingenuous it was to be sending those texts of warning while then going on the air to the American people and doing a complete injustice and disservice by saying something completely opposite,” Carlson said, “and ginning up this whole reaction that it was just fine and patriotic for people to be there on January 6th.”

She went on to express concern about the journalistic state of her former network since the rise of Trump. Carlson also noted how conspiracy theories have become a fallacious replacement for opinion.

“Slowly but surely, this has morphed into eradicating any other point of view since the Trump era that is not just opinion,” Carlson said.
“It's gone from an opinion, which was fine, to completely devolving into non-fact-based conspiracy theories and outright dangerous rhetoric, in my mind, and I think it’s a complete disservice to our country.”

Noting the dangers of biased journalism, Carlson explained how dangerous it is to only get information from one news source. She also stressed how imperative it is for Republican leaders and lawmakers to use their platforms to offer clarity regarding some of the dangerous false narratives perpetuated by Fox News.

“For the safety of the Republican Party and for our democracy, I wish more would, because this is not going to end well, in my mind,” Carlson said.
“It's really hard to change people's opinions because they're only watching what they want to hear, you know?
And that's the other problem that we have in society with the media right now, is that we're so siloed into only watching what we agree with. And so every day that thought process just gets reinforced time after time.”

Carlson also conceded that conservative media has changed considerably over the last five years as
there is no longer a clear line between opinion and conspiracy theory.

“Conservative television news is certainly not the conservative news that was out there even just five years ago,” Carlson said, later adding,
_ “There’s a big difference between having a conservative opinion and having one that supports conspiracy theories.”

Subject: Re: FOX Tue Feb 15, 2022 10:26 pm

Fox News Notches 20 Straight Years as Top-Rated Cable News Network
Lindsey Ellefson | TheWrap

January ratings are in and, per Nielsen Media Research data, Fox News just set a big record: The network officially capped off 20 straight years as the top-rated cable news channel.

Notably, “The Five” continued its ratings success, ending the month as the most-viewed show in cable news, which is a unique feat for a non-primetime program. Tucker Carlson’s 8 p.m. ET juggernaut led the way in the advertiser-coveted age demographic of 25 to 54.

Fox News ended January as the top cable news channel in both total day viewers and primetime viewers. It has been the most-watched cable news network by both metrics since 2002. “Fox & Friends” host Steve Doocy told TheWrap in October of last year that when he started with the network at its inception 25 years ago, “it didn’t look good” and the team thought “market leader” CNN was tough competition. Five years later, the channel took the lead and never let it go.

Here’s how the numbers for January break down, per Nielsen: Fox News nabbed 1.414 million total-day viewers, on average, with 226,000 of those in the key demo. MSNBC took second place in total average viewers, pulling in 656,000, but took third place in the demo with 74,000. CNN was in last place in total viewers, averaging 493,000, but in second place in the demo with 101,000.

In primetime, Fox News brought in 2.242 million average total viewers, with 338,000 in the demo. Again, MSNBC took second place in total average primetime viewers, pulling in 1.15 million, but last place in the demo, securing 130,000. CNN nabbed 633,000 total average viewers between 8 p.m. ET and 11 p.m. ET, of whom 140,000 were between 25 and 54.

The top five cable news programs in total viewership and demo viewership all belonged to Fox News. In total average viewers, “The Five” led the way with 3.573 million, “Tucker Carlson Tonight” averaged 3.414 million, “Hannity” took in 2.862 million, “Special Report with Bret Baier” nabbed 2.616 million and the 7 p.m. ET hour brought in 2.385 million, on average. “Jesse Watters Primetime” premiered in the 7 p.m. hour during the final week of January. Prior to Watters’ ascension to his own pre-primetime solo gig, the hour was helmed by rotating hosts. Watters’ program nabbed 3.3 million average viewers and 490,000 demo viewers, on average, in its first week.

The top five programs in the demo for the month were “Tucker Carlson Tonight” with an average of 560,000 viewers between 25 and 54, “The Five” with 504,000, “Hannity” with 433,000, the 7 p.m. ET hour with 388,000 and “Special Report with Bret Baier” with 387,000. Watters’ first week hosting “Primetime” drew 490,000 viewers in the demo, on average.

Fox News was also the only one of the big three cable news networks to improve year over year in total average viewers in total day. Fox News was up 4% in total-day viewership compared to January 2021, while CNN was down 74% and MSNBC was down 60%. Recall, of course, that January 2021 was a huge month for news: In addition to the deadly Capitol riot on Jan. 6, former President Donald Trump was impeached a second time and President Joe Biden was sworn in.

Fox News, like its competitors, was down year over year in total-day demo averages, primetime total viewership and primetime demo averages, although its losses were less than CNN’s and MSNBC’s. In total-day demo ratings, Fox News was down 7% compared to January of last year, CNN was down 81% and MSNBC was down 75%. In primetime total viewership, Fox News was down 12%, CNN was down 77% and MSNBC was down 56%. Finally, in primetime demo viewership, Fox News was down 20%, CNN was down 82% and MSNBC was down 73%.

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3-1-2022

Fox News Correspondent Gives Network Blunt Reality Check About Ukraine On Live

National security correspondent Jennifer Griffin
called out one guest as “not a student of history”
but a failed politician.

Fox News’ national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin again called out her own network’s questionable coverage of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

On Sunday, Griffin slammed retired U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Donald Bolduc’s on-air suggestion that America should provide more “combat help” to Ukraine as being “way off the mark in terms of talking about what the U.S. could do on the ground.”

U.S. and NATO don’t have soldiers fighting in Ukraine amid fears it could spark a nuclear war, Griffin noted.

“The Ukrainians are very good fighters,” she said. “They are a tough group of fighters.
They do not need Americans to fight for them. That would cause this to spread.”

“Clearly, Brig. Gen. Bolduc is not a student of history,” she continued.
“He’s a politician.
He ran for Senate in New Hampshire and failed.
He’s not a military strategist, and to suggest that the U.S. would put indirect fire or special operations or CIA on the ground to give Putin any sort of excuse to broaden this conflict is extremely dangerous talk at a time like this.”

Griffin has in recent days taken to task other personalities on Fox, including prime time anchor Sean Hannity, for spinning the invasion into an attack on President Joe Biden.

“I’m here to fact-check facts, because I report on facts,” Griffin said of her reality checks on Sunday. “And my job is to try and figure out the truth as best as I know it.
I share those facts internally so that our network can be more accurate.
That’s what I’ve always done. There’s nothing different than what I’ve been doing
for the last 26 years working for Fox.”
Watch;
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3-10-2022

Judge Cites Tucker Carlson as Proving 'Actual Malice'
in Defamation Suit Against FOX News.

Ever since Donald Trump decisively lost the 2020
presidential election to Joe Biden,
he and his confederacy have been asserting the "Big Lie"
that millions of votes were switched, manufactured, deleted,
or otherwise tampered with in order to deny Trump the victory.

He had over a year and more than sixty court cases to produce the
proof of the conspiracy he alleged, but failed entirely to do so.

Trump's partners in this charade included much of
the right-wing mediaverse, most prominently Fox News.
And as a result, Fox News was named in a
pair of multi-billion dollar defamation lawsuits,
one by Dominion Voting Systems, and one by Smartmatic.
that they accused of "stealing" the election from Trump.

This week a judge hearing the Smartmatic case declined to
grant a motion by Fox News to dismiss it.

It was a serious blow to Fox that leaves the propaganda outlet
in deep legal jeopardy.
But part of the judge's reasoning for allowing the
case to proceed must be profoundly embarrassing
to Fox.

"The ruling repeatedly says Fox hosts, [Rudy] Giuliani and [Sydney] Powell made claims 'without any evidence'
and 'without any basis.'
It also says that claims made by Giuliani, Fox host Maria Bartiromo and now-former
Fox Business host Lou Dobbs could meet the legal standard of claims being 'so
inherently improbable that only a reckless person would
have put [them] in circulation.'

"In the course of laying out the legal requirements
for Smartmatic to prove its case, the judge noted
that the company must prove Fox met the standard
of acting with 'actual malice' —
i.e. not merely promoting false claims,
but doing so with malice.
And on that count, the judge says_
the best evidence that it did is Carlson."

Tucker Carlson is Smartmatics's best witness to
certify that Fox News behaved with
"actual malice" to defame the company.
The judge's ruling elaborated, saying that...

"Ironically, the statements of Tucker Carlson,
perhaps the most popular Fox News host, militate most strongly
in favor of a possible finding that there is a substantial basis that Fox News acted with actual malice."

The judge also wrote that because "Powell never provided the evidence requested by Carlson, and President Trump’s campaign advised Carlson that it knew of no such evidence [that] Fox News knew,or should have known" that the allegations were false.

What the judge was referring to was a commentary that Carlson delivered last November on his program wherein he described an interaction he had with former Trump lawyer Sydney Powell.

He outlined her preposterous and utterly baseless allegations of voting machine tampering that, the disclosure of which, she said would be "biblical."
And despite her lack of any evidence, Carlson pointedly declared that he didn't dismiss any of it.

Nevertheless, he did ask her to present whatever evidence she had. She not only refused to do so, she got angry at him and told him to stop contacting her.
But his having asked is what serves as the basis for the lawsuit meeting the "actual malice" standard.

So Carlson isn't validating the claim of defamation because
he was caught lying, as one might expect.
His validation is in the fact that he actually demonstrated
that the election lies told on
Fox News were deliberate and malicious.

In other words, Carlson is being cited in court as
the truthteller on Fox who exposed his colleagues
as defamers.

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3-13-2022

Fox host admits Trump tried to bribe Ukraine
in accidental self-own.

Fox host Rachel Campos-Duffy was called out Sunday after she claimed that Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky likely wishes that former President Donald Trump was in charge.

Trump, who dodged the Vietnam draft claiming
"bone spurs," withheld aid from Ukraine in 2019, telling Zelensky he would send the weapons package passed by Congress only if he did a "favor."

Campos-Duffy was ridiculed online by those who rolled their eyes at her, but particularly by those
who pointed out her ignorance.

According to Campos-Duffy, former President Barack Obama did nothing but send "blankets" to Ukraine. She said that thanks to Trump, Ukraine (eventually) got their aid and he "used that leverage to try to get Zelinsky to expose the proven Biden family corruption in Ukraine."
As a fact-check:
no corruption was able to be proven as even the Fox Network indicated when it refused to run Rudy Giuliani's false documentary on the matter.
Guiliani was also caught on tape trying to pressure Ukraine into going after Biden.
Giuliani was then banned from the network after
the 2020 election.

What was different about the statement from Campos-Duffy is it admits that Trump attempted to bribe Ukraine with the aid.
She makes it clear that Trump attempted to use
the aid as a bargaining chip, or as "leverage."

While president, Obama sent over $1.3 billion in aid to Ukraine.
That included "$20 million to support comprehensive reform in the Ukrainian law enforcement and justice sectors, including prosecutorial and anti-corruption reforms," as the Kyiv Post reported at the time.

There was also an additional $3 million that went to fund the UN World Food Program emergency operation in Ukraine.
That came after the U.S. did a $1 billion sovereign loan guarantee issued in May 2014, according to the embassy.
As the Wall Street Journal reported, the U.S. government committed nearly $320 million in assistance to Ukraine that year.
There was a concern at the time that if the world
sent money directly to Ukraine it would be squandered by corrupt leaders and oligarchs.

The aid from Trump's Pentagon was $250 million in "security cooperation funds for additional training, equipment and advisory efforts to build the capacity of Ukraine's armed forces," they announced.

Even without the $1 billion in loan guarantees,
Obama sent $100 million more to Ukraine than Trump sent —
but only once Trump finally handed it over.

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4-1-2022

Caitlyn Jenner has a new gig at Fox News.

Caitlyn Jenner has a new job:
a Fox News "contributor and commentator."
Viewers can watch her debut Thursday night on
Sean Hannity's show, which coincides with the
annual International Transgender Day of Visibility.

“What do we do with the seven year-old girl that
goes into the locker room and there's the
14-year-old boy naked in the girls' locker room
because that's where he chooses to be?”
the longtime Fox News propagandist asked on
his show back in 2013.

"Hannity and conservative radio host Dana Loesch continued Fox's crusade against a new California law ensuring equal protection for transgender students, dismissing transgender individuals as an insignificant minority and engaging in demagogic fear-mongering about inappropriate bathroom behavior."

But Hannity and Jenner, a Republican, have a history. She launched her failed California gubernatorial campaign on
his show last May.

"On one hand, Fox’s decision seems risky, given recent research that shows a majority of conservative Republicans say that acceptance of transgender people like Jenner has been bad for society."

"And Fox personality Tucker Carlson, among others, regularly challenges the emergent philosophy that gender can be fluid or chosen;
he said last fall that the trans community has 'disproportionate power' and said last week that
'In 2022, the power of science and literature crumble in the face of the trans lobby.'"

(((It's not like Jenner has been much of an LGBTQ activist.Hannity has not been supportive of LGBTQ rights.Strange stuff- )))

Subject: Re: FOX Fri Apr 01, 2022 7:48 pm

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5-6-2022

Fox News deals in Kremlin propaganda.

On Russian state news, as on Fox, bawling ideologues scream
threats then whine about their victimhood as they incite anger and
self-pity in equal measures.

Russia would never give genuine western journalists airtime.
But it can always find a slot for its favourite quisling:
Fox News’s Tucker Carlson.

He pushes out Russian propaganda lines or perhaps creates
his own lies for Russia to use.
Ukraine, not Russia, is the real tyranny.
Nato provoked poor Vladimir Putin.
The west is plotting to use biological weapons.
Last week, he floated the theory that the war was not the result of
an unprovoked invasion by a colonialist dictatorship but
of the Biden administration’s desire to avenge Donald Trump’s victory in 2016.

It was a big hit in Moscow.
State TV propagandists loved it so much,
Russia’s 60 Minutes included it not once, but twice in their
evening broadcast –
neatly bookended by the Kremlin’s war propaganda.”

Murdoch is boosting Russian morale and, conversely,
undermining Ukrainian resolve by supplying a dictatorship with
foreign validation.
Do not underestimate its importance. Russians who suspect
their TV anchors are state-sponsored bootlickers are more likel
y to believe foreign commentators who assure them that the lies they
are hearing are true.

Tender-hearted readers may object that Murdoch is now 90
and may well not be in full control of his organisation.
If in his dotage he is allowing himself to become a cross between
Lord Haw Haw and Tokyo Rose.

Reporters risk their lives but Putin cannot fire or imprison Fox News
presenters, steal their wealth or poison them with Novichok.
Russian forces will not reduce their towns to rubble, rape them,
torture them, burn them alive in theatres or shoot them in the
head by the side of forest roads. Murdoch and his employees have nothing
to fear from Putin.
Their endorsement of Kremlin war propaganda carries conviction
because it is freely given.

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5-21-2022

Fox News insider warns law enforcement may be needed to stop the network's lies from killing Americans.

Law enforcement may have to intervene to stop Fox News from incited racist terrorism as its primetime hosts push white supremacist conspiracy theories,
a longtime network insider warned on Saturday.

Carl Cameron spent two decades at the network reporting on politics and earning the nickname "Campaign Carl" for his extensive travel to cover political races.

The clips of Tucker Carlson pushing the same white supremacist conspiracy theory that the alleged Buffalo massacre gun said motivated in his manifesto.

"Do you think the Murdock family in charge of Fox
will ever pull the plug on Tucker?" Jim asked.

"There's a point when it becomes difficult for an executive to put up with the help," Cameron replied.

"In this particular case, Tucker has been screaming fire in a crowded movie house for years, and that cliche really comes to the matter of what is free speech, and the fact of the matter is, if you disturb starting a riot in a movie theater, cops are going to arrest you and you might end up in jail or you might end up in something worse," he explained.

"That absolutely has to stop, whether it's the antitrust bill to take down and deplatform people who lie and put out falsehoods that cause damage and violent, violent hate, there ought to be something done about it," he replied.

The president has to be more forceful and sooner or later the law enforcement and the U.S. government is going to have to stop the lying because it's causing people's deaths," Cameron said.