for a free book 1 808 220400 or go to meso book .com. good evening to give you some idea what change looks like on an issue that some fear is impervious to take a look at the front page of today s nashville, tennessee. in lee. it reads that republican governor bill lee wants gun law action beneath it. jones meaning democratic state representative justin jones expelled after gun violence. protests on the statehouse floor reclaims his seat in the legislature. two major bipartisan developments in the wake of last month school shooting in nashville happening with remarkable speed, creating a front page that might have seemed inconceivable just a few days ago, and that was before local officials voted today to reinstate the second expelled state representative justin j. pearson of memphis last night on this program, representative jones said he saw a change of heart in governor lee and then perhaps another sign of that both his reinstatement and representative pearsons today were
Character that my character lucy explores. this is a tabloid and subplot of who done it, it s where america has gone. she s put in situations as a writer, as a journalist, lucy, in writing about them and her editors are goosing them to sell papers. and, you know, there isn t that far distance between the $787.5 million settlement being paid by fox to dominion. it s part of the tabloidfication of the american media. some of it is black and white unclear how they re goosing the story to make things up but shades of gray there that holds a mirror up to the media industry writ large. jake, first of all, this is a book that has footnotes in it, so you will learn something. but it s also a really fun interesting read, if you love a good thriller.
Price tanking, really remarkable, stunning. inside details in the wake of the 2020 election that it showed the panic inside of fox news and why they protect but perhaps you know how these elections lies to take hold on the network. you know, it gave us a view inside fox that frankly, we have never seen before. of course, we would have learned more during this trial, seeing someone like rupert murdoch being forced to take the stand and being cross examined by dominion. but we have learned a lot about how fox operates the dishonest way it operates as a result of the proceedings that led up to the potential trial, and we also saw that when reporters like kristin fisher, who now works at cnn, not coincidentally, tried to fact check people at in the executive branch of fox. other anchors hosts in the primetime opinion hours would get mad they would get mad when people asserted facts on their air people in the news division and,
And in a statement, fox admitted quote we acknowledge the court s rulings finding certain claims about dominion to be false, which translated means that yes , they spent months and months lying to their viewers about dominion voting systems among other things, and as a result were in such fear of what a jury trial might create in terms of both the settlement and embarrassment for the company. they wrote a check for $787 million 500,000. cnn s oliver darcy is outside the courthouse in wellington, delaware. um oliver, i assume we re not going to hear remarks from fox s attorneys. um one question i have is that newsmax and o a n. which are these much smaller right wing propaganda channels they were forced to read statements on air in which they
Mouths of those who have been accused of never having told it. ellie is there any chance that fox would have to admit guilt or make some sort of public apology? as part of this deal that can absolutely be part of a negotiated settlement agreement ? the reporting has been that dominion was very interested in getting some sort of statement from fox. no matter what, though, jake, i think it s really important to know dominion has done its job here. even with this settlement, what they have done is a valuable public service and a couple respects. first of all, they got a pretrial ruling from the judge that foxes report. was false. the judge found that the evidence here was so strong that as a matter of law, fox s coverage was false. the only disputed evidence was going to be. was it knowingly false? the other thing is dominion by going through the discovery process here has exposed the lies behind foxes reporting because of dominion undertaking this lawsuit. that s why we ve seen sean hann