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interesting thing to note here is that the last major executive to leave nbc news under allegations of misconduct was ron meyer, a top executive at nbc universal, who was fired by jeff shell for an inappropriate relationship he was having with a woman who did not work at nbc. you but that relationship was deemed to be inappropriate. so certainly that is something that s happened recently at the network that jeff schell was involved in. um we re we don t really know the details of this particular. the case yet, but certainly comcast deemed it to be inappropriate enough to let the ceo of nbcuniversal gap let me ask you about the fox defamation lawsuits. dominion in the end, did not demand an apology from fox news. we all saw that it sounds as though the ceo of smartmatic says they re not going to settle this bigger $2.7 billion lawsuit without some kind of an apology and one of the things that we saw throughout this process of dominion going all the way up to the point of a trial, essent