in the wake of the 2020 election, fox news found itself trapped in a confine entirely of its own making. they could tell the truth to the viewers, as all new networks, even fox, inspired to do and are prepared to do. with election decision debts and models, to call races accurately. or, kurt number two, fox news could came to the life and conspiracies being told by the man had almost completely synced up with so closely aligned with by that point. the disgraced ex-president for taking that path would mean that fox news would shield its millions of viewers from the sophisticated and expensive data-driven results produced by its own, competent election desk. importantly, fox news realizes at the highest level of that company, that it cannot do both. according to brandon reporting in the new york times, fox news decision to promote joe biden on election night, it was a call they were able to make ahead of other networks. it is a call that they got right ahead of other networks.
that a lot of the statements that dominion quoted were taken out of context. that is one thing. the second thing is and i think eric had a really good piece in the washington post about it today, many of the documents that are quoted in the briefs that we have access to had substantial reductions in them. you can tell from what came before and what came after, that the refracted material is likely to be very interesting and relevant. the redactions were made at the test of fox, not dominion. the new york times and npr, filed a lawsuit to get access to the unredacted versions of these things. i suspect that, at some point, we will get access to at least some of those documents. with respect to claire s point, i have to respectfully disagree that this is the case that is
action against a news organization because of that 60- year-old president. here, bad facts make bad law. here, fox news, of all outlets, is delivering to the courts, probably the worst set of facts in a high profile liable case in many, many years. these facts are bad for them. while truth is always a defense in libel, the faxed that this was not the truth and there s so much evidence whirling around the fact, they knew it was not the truth. this was important stuff. i guarantee you this there s one thing that everyone agrees on that represent media outlets in america. that is they hope this case settles. if it goes to the supreme court, i bet you five bucks that we have some new law, new rules of
incorrect. they are trying to establish that everyone inside fox news knew the results of the election and knew they were free from fraud. that is why rupert murdoch, asserting and including the call with jared kushner about the results are so important. if i had that right, let me know if i have that wrong, correct me. just explain the legal significance of the quality of the data and the confidence in the accuracy of the call before we take this tangent on what it means. nicole, i think we have to be careful not to mix apples and oranges here. the issue that dominion is litigating is whether or not the information that fox disseminated about it through rudy giuliani and sidney powell , was false. minion is arguing that the
mike, were going to have to end it there. that is probably for the best fox news was the butt of jokes on snl, imagine how fox and friends would cover the defamation lawsuit, should they decide to cover the lawsuit. we re back withsix, seven, david jolly and claire mccaskill. his candidacy is animated by his belief that the last election was stolen from him in part because of dominion and voting machines. what careful balance does fox news has to strive to not amplify those lies about dominion again? it is a real tight rope for them to walk, and the culprit as we talked about before, it is no accident that they are not covering this case at all. they told him that they couldn t, if you were fox news viewer, you would not know that