the dollar figure was $787. million. the dominion voting system will receive from fox news i it s a defamation lawsuit. fox news agrees to the largest defamation payout since alex jones. money is accountability we got that today from fox but we are not done yet. tonight, one of the dominio attorneys on the histori settlement with fox. and david blough, michel goldman, and harry lippman o what it will mean for rupert murdoch s monopoly and america politics moving forward. another nightmare, murder this time in upstate new york on th awful truth of a politics of crime and punishment and why it is tax day should make a happy ending to nonsens fearmongering about 87,000 new irs agents are they going to have strikeforce that goes in wit ak-15 s already loaded, read to shoot
all that was, legally, a determined by the judge here false. they could not argue the facts here going into the courtroom, as was always established and stipulated those were all fals statements and then things only got worse for fox this morning the judge formally appointed a special master to investigat fox s conduct during the discovery phase of this. he had already sanctioned fo with - that process and with th settlement and the bottom line here i that, on their first day o this trial, much anticipated fox news has agreed to pay dominion voting systems a trul ungodly amount of money for on reason why? why do they strike this deal today? they desperately want to kee their people, including fo corporation chairman ruper more murdaugh who is slated to testify tomorrow, and host tucker carlson, and maria, and sean hannity of having to go under oath
settlement and announcement? i think it should hav tremendous repercussions in th media industry i mean, this was a histori settlement in terms of the amount it was made possible because when fox try to rewrite firs amendment law to justify wha they had done, the judge would not have any of it it rejected those arguments. that was probably the most dangerous part of the case chris. fox, when they found themselve caught, when the evidence of actual malice was so strong, they knew they were spreadin lies, they try to get firs amendment law written to mak that okay as long as it is newsworthy, what you are reporting on we managed to prevent that fro happening, the judge prevented that from happening. the actual malice of recklessness regard for th truth standard prevailed this case proves that when a company puts profits over th truth and causes grievous harm to a company or individual ultimately they will have to pay. quite a lot. stephen shackelford, one of
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you ve got to be thinking, like, and they are just rubbing thei hands together after this. they have filed a 2.7 billio dollar defamation lawsui against fox in february. last month, a new york judge agreed the case could proceed. there is no trial date date se for that it does not seem they are ou of the woods it seems in some ways this i the fox cost of doing business right? that is the big question does this change anything there? i don t think - i think it was - ruin rupert murdoch reputation, and obviously it s not great. i think you are right about th unlikeliness of this penetrating the fox news bubble part of the promise of thi trial was that the host ha executives would have to answe to a reality beyond th hermetically sealed fantasylan they created on fox news now that s not going to happen nevertheless, you ve gotta