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  • Fox News About To Lose $1,600,000,000

    From Bradley K. Sherman@21:1/5 to All on Fri Feb 17 00:48:07 2023
    | ...
    | The hosts Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham,
    | as well as others at the company, repeatedly insulted and
    | mocked Trump advisers, including Sidney Powell and Rudolph
    | W. Giuliani, in text messages with each other in the weeks
    | after the election, according to a legal filing on Thursday
    | by Dominion Voting Systems. Dominion is suing Fox for
    | defamation in a case that poses considerable financial and
    | reputational risk for the country's most-watched cable news
    | network.
    |
    | "Sidney Powell is lying by the way. I caught her. It's
    | insane," Mr. Carlson wrote to Ms. Ingraham on Nov. 18, 2020.
    |
    | Ms. Ingraham responded: "Sidney is a complete nut. No one
    | will work with her. Ditto with Rudy."
    |
    | Mr. Carlson continued, "Our viewers are good people and
    | they believe it," he added, making clear that he did not.
    | ... <https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/business/media/fox-dominion-lawsuit.html>

    --bks

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  • From Bradley K. Sherman@21:1/5 to All on Fri Feb 17 15:30:02 2023
    | Mr. Carlson continued, "Our viewers are good people and
    | they believe it," he added, making clear that he did not.

    | ...
    | On Nov. 12, in a group text chain among Ms. Ingraham, Mr.
    | Carlson and Mr. Hannity, Mr. Carlson pointed to a tweet in
    | which a Fox reporter, Jacqui Heinrich, fact-checked a tweet
    | from Mr. Trump referring to Fox broadcasts and said there
    | was no evidence of voter fraud from Dominion.
    |
    | "Please get her fired, "Mr. Carlson said. He added: "It
    | needs to stop immediately, like tonight. It's measurably
    | hurting the company. The stock price is down. Not a joke."
    | Ms. Heinrich had deleted her tweet by the next morning.
    | ...
    <ibid.>

    --bks

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  • From Bradley K. Sherman@21:1/5 to All on Thu Feb 23 18:21:30 2023
    | On Nov. 12, in a group text chain among Ms. Ingraham, Mr.
    | Carlson and Mr. Hannity, Mr. Carlson pointed to a tweet in
    | which a Fox reporter, Jacqui Heinrich, fact-checked a tweet
    | from Mr. Trump referring to Fox broadcasts and said there
    | was no evidence of voter fraud from Dominion.
    |
    | "Please get her fired, "Mr. Carlson said. He added: "It
    | needs to stop immediately, like tonight. It's measurably
    | hurting the company. The stock price is down. Not a joke."
    | Ms. Heinrich had deleted her tweet by the next morning.

    |
    | 'Incredibly damning:' Fox News documents stun some legal
    | experts
    |
    | The disclosure of behind-the-scenes emails and texts
    | greatly increased the chances that Dominion will win its
    | $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox, experts say.
    | ...
    | 'While it's true that the Supreme Court [in Sullivan] has
    | set a high bar for plaintiffs, a high bar doesn't mean no
    | bar," said Sonja R. West, a First Amendment scholar at the
    | University of Georgia law school "What we're seeing in this
    | case looks an awful lot like the exception that proves the
    | rule. The First Amendment often protects speakers who make
    | innocent or even negligent mistakes, but this does not mean
    | they can knowingly tell lies that damage the reputation of
    | others."
    | ... <https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/02/23/fox-news-dominion-lawsuit-legal-analysis/>

    --bks

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  • From VegasJerry@21:1/5 to Bradley K. Sherman on Thu Feb 23 12:49:13 2023
    On Thursday, February 23, 2023 at 10:21:36 AM UTC-8, Bradley K. Sherman wrote:
    | On Nov. 12, in a group text chain among Ms. Ingraham, Mr.
    | Carlson and Mr. Hannity, Mr. Carlson pointed to a tweet in
    | which a Fox reporter, Jacqui Heinrich, fact-checked a tweet
    | from Mr. Trump referring to Fox broadcasts and said there
    | was no evidence of voter fraud from Dominion.
    |
    | "Please get her fired, "Mr. Carlson said. He added: "It
    | needs to stop immediately, like tonight. It's measurably
    | hurting the company. The stock price is down. Not a joke."
    | Ms. Heinrich had deleted her tweet by the next morning.

    |
    | 'Incredibly damning:' Fox News documents stun some legal
    | experts
    |
    | The disclosure of behind-the-scenes emails and texts
    | greatly increased the chances that Dominion will win its
    | $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox, experts say.
    | ...
    | 'While it's true that the Supreme Court [in Sullivan] has
    | set a high bar for plaintiffs, a high bar doesn't mean no
    | bar," said Sonja R. West, a First Amendment scholar at the
    | University of Georgia law school "What we're seeing in this
    | case looks an awful lot like the exception that proves the
    | rule. The First Amendment often protects speakers who make
    | innocent or even negligent mistakes, but this does not mean
    | they can knowingly tell lies that damage the reputation of
    | others."
    | ... <https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/02/23/fox-news-dominion-lawsuit-legal-analysis/>

    --bks

    But will an Appeals Court (now stacked with Republicans) cut the fine from $1.6 billion to $250,000?

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