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I think democrats have been explicitly clear in, remember, their closing messages of the midterms when president biden went out and explicitly said, this is about protecting our democracy, protecting the key pillar of our democracy and reinforcing it with your vote. that was a key message in the 2022 midterms and something bier going to hear on a consistent drum beat. because that s who lost today. our democracy lost without any type of clear accountability beyond money because i don t agree that money is accountability what s accountability is changing your ways, behaving better in the southern house you grew up in, you better believe that statement would not be accepted as a lesson learned. but the reality is, we re not going to get that from fox we re going to need to get it from our elected officials and the campaign staffers who know the uphill battle of convincing voters their vote does count and matter. alicia, can i note on this ....
How do you undo the damage that they have done well, we may not be ail to do the damage, but we have to be truth tellers. we have to make sure, and i m a plaintiff in the lawsuit the naacp has put forward how it relates to donald trump and the proud boys and what they have put forward, the attempted coup january 6th. it s up to the public to protect our democracy and speak out and tell the truth when they hear these lies coming from fox, don t believe what you hear check it out do a fact check. read, listen, don t automatically believe that someone won or lost an election based on what fox news has said, and i think this dominion lawsuit really says it all they lied. fox news lied, and dominion, they sued them and they have to pay a heavy price. but once again, what does that say to our democracy and the price that our democracy has to pay, and people of our country ....
Broadly was injured, including election workers who were singled out by president trump as well as commentators. and those people, as well as our democracy more generally are not going get anything from this settlement, even though i hope that pricing in the cost of lying to a business model will deter other companies from engaging in similar behavior. i will hang my hat on that hope nick, it has not been reported if this is in the final agreement, with you the new york times reporting yesterday that dominion would only take a settlement if it included fox issuing them an apology. do you think that might be in the agreement? i m not sure if it is and it doesn t make a difference. what really matters is they ve acknowledged that they have lied and all the lies a whole series of lies found by the court in its summary judgment motion were correct that they lied, and that s the most important part. take me through leah s point, which is they haven t acknowledged they ve lied. t ....
At pnc bank, you can find us in big cities and small towns across the us, where our focus is to always support the people who live and work there. because you call these communities home, and we do too. pnc bank. we must share a commitment to facts. misinformation will not go away. it may only get worse. today represents a ringing endorsement for truth and for democracy. and believe the evidence brought to light through this case underscores the consequences of spreading lies truthful reporting in the media is essential to our democracy. the consequences of spreading lies fox news will pay more ....
Credibility. sure, they tell us they re going to protect us against disinformation, their record on spreading information is no it that great. like kat said, it s scary they talk about things like they say threat to democracy. then they say, free speech, and if too many people come out to vote, that s a threat to democracy. no, that kind of leads us to democracy. that s the benefit of democracy. we re seeing the freakouts on twitter. none of them are saying,s the opinions i don t like are showing up. i m going to stay here and argue. they re saying we re leaving and never coming back. and we re supposed to say, please don t go, please don t go. go ahead, i hear truth social is nice. greg: exactly. what do you think, emily, of the topics that they chose? it s kind of funny that origins of covid, racial justice. these are all kinds of things that they want one opinion. so, it s like, you exmbed four opinions, three opinions that would be edited out of other ....