Fox News settles Dominion defamation case for $787.5m

[onthedarkside]

 

Dominion chief executive John Poulos told a press conference the deal included Fox "admitting to telling lies, causing enormous damage to my company".

 

Justin Nelson, a Dominion attorney, told reporters that "the truth matters".

 

"Lies have consequences," he added. "Over two years ago a torrent of lies swept Dominion and election officials across America into an alternative universe of conspiracy theories, causing grievous harm to Dominion and the country."

 

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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65318654

 

[Tug]

They got off way to easy in my opinion they don’t have to apologize for their role in undermining our country and for backing trumps big lie no excuses they are a threat to America and all the gullible people out there 

[bamnutsak]

 

Fox News said it is "pleased" to have settled its dispute with Dominion.

 

"We acknowledge the Court's rulings finding certain claims about Dominion to be false," the network said in a statement. "This settlement reflects FOX's continued commitment to the highest journalistic standards. We are hopeful that our decision to resolve this dispute with Dominion amicably, instead of the acrimony of a divisive trial, allows the country to move forward from these issues."

 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fox-news-dominion-voting-systems-lawsuit-settlement/

 

 

 

I was on record here about a settlement being the obvious solution - all it  takes is one or two jurors and Fox didn't want Rupert and the gang on the stand - , not that that was the outcome I was hoping for. Seeing Fox personalities roasted on the stand would have been much better for the country, and for popcorn sales.

 

In the Seth Rich defamation settlement Fox demanded that the settlement be kept secret until after the 2020 election. But Tucker Carlson still refers to the "Seth Rich affair"  but without mentioning his name.

 

 

It will be interesting see which direction Fox chooses now. Towards a more mainstream journalistic path, or full-on crazy-town?

 

So much for seasons five of the Goliath and Succession crossover.

 

 

 

 

 

[Chomper Higgot]

FOX have yet to face the consequences of lying to the court, the Court’s appointed Special Master is still ‘Special Mastering’.

[Eric Loh]

Lies have consequences. Coming soon will be the Smartmatic $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit and anchors Maria Bartiromo, Lou Dobbs and Jeanine Pirro named. as well as Sidney Powell and Giuliani. If successful this will hit Fox's bottom line after the Dominion settlement for $787.5. Shareholders will be furious as well as scared and may start start selling and could lead to more financial vulnerability. 

[ballpoint]

2 hours ago, bamnutsak said:

 

Fox News said it is "pleased" to have settled its dispute with Dominion.

 

"We acknowledge the Court's rulings finding certain claims about Dominion to be false," the network said in a statement. "This settlement reflects FOX's continued commitment to the highest journalistic standards. We are hopeful that our decision to resolve this dispute with Dominion amicably, instead of the acrimony of a divisive trial, allows the country to move forward from these issues."

 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fox-news-dominion-voting-systems-lawsuit-settlement/

 

 

 

I was on record here about a settlement being the obvious solution - all it  takes is one or two jurors and Fox didn't want Rupert and the gang on the stand - , not that that was the outcome I was hoping for. Seeing Fox personalities roasted on the stand would have been much better for the country, and for popcorn sales.

 

In the Seth Rich defamation settlement Fox demanded that the settlement be kept secret until after the 2020 election. But Tucker Carlson still refers to the "Seth Rich affair"  but without mentioning his name.

 

 

It will be interesting see which direction Fox chooses now. Towards a more mainstream journalistic path, or full-on crazy-town?

 

So much for seasons five of the Goliath and Succession crossover.

 

 

 

 

 

"This settlement reflects FOX's continued commitment to the highest journalistic standards..."

 

There they go. Still lying through their teeth.

[Berkshire]

1 hour ago, Eric Loh said:

Lies have consequences. Coming soon will be the Smartmatic $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit and anchors Maria Bartiromo, Lou Dobbs and Jeanine Pirro named. as well as Sidney Powell and Giuliani. If successful this will hit Fox's bottom line after the Dominion settlement for $787.5. Shareholders will be furious as well as scared and may start start selling and could lead to more financial vulnerability. 

I would imagine the Smartmatic case would be a slam dunk.  All the company has to do is hire the same lawyers used by Dominion and just wait for a juicy settlement offer.  Regrettable that this didn't go to trial, but at least Fox is paying through the nose for their non-stop lies.

[xylophone]

1 hour ago, ballpoint said:

"This settlement reflects FOX's continued commitment to the highest journalistic standards..."

 

There they go. Still lying through their teeth.

They can't help themselves, and to quote the "scorpion and the frog" fable, it's in their nature.

 

A news channel which bases itself on inaccurate news and lies, will attract personnel with the same failings, and that will never change.

[ozimoron]

4 hours ago, bamnutsak said:

 

Fox News said it is "pleased" to have settled its dispute with Dominion.

 

It will be interesting see which direction Fox chooses now. Towards a more mainstream journalistic path, or full-on crazy-town?

 

So much for seasons five of the Goliath and Succession crossover.

 

2 hours ago, ballpoint said:

"This settlement reflects FOX's continued commitment to the highest journalistic standards..."

 

There they go. Still lying through their teeth.

tldr; Business as usual. The outrage machine is alive and well and crazy town will hear that nothing happened.

[Berkshire]

It's not over for Fox News....

 

[“Dominion’s litigation exposed some of the misconduct and damage caused by Fox’s disinformation campaign,” a Smartmatic spokesman said in a statement obtained by The New York Times. “Smartmatic will expose the rest.”]

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/smartmatic-vows-to-finish-what-dominion-case-started/ar-AA1a1BIQ?ocid=wispr&cvid=a0ffeec316054d44a5b9fcee1028eb03&ei=10

[Eric Loh]

1 hour ago, Berkshire said:

I would imagine the Smartmatic case would be a slam dunk.  All the company has to do is hire the same lawyers used by Dominion and just wait for a juicy settlement offer.  Regrettable that this didn't go to trial, but at least Fox is paying through the nose for their non-stop lies.

Quite a winfall for Smartmatic if they get close to the Dominion settlement amount considering their annual revenue is about $200 million. Dominion is laughing all the way to the bank and shareholders will benefit from this windfall. Their annual revenue is about $17.4 million. Will hit Fox hard deservingly.

https://www.zippia.com/dominion-voting-systems-careers-1569241/revenue/

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

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Dominion chief executive John Poulos told a press conference the deal included Fox "admitting to telling lies, causing enormous damage to my company".

 

Be very interested to see/hear just what exact kind of "admitting to telling lies" admissions Fox will have to publicly make via the terms of the settlement.

 

And even more so, whether this resolution and the likely coming resolution of the Smartmatic litigation will have any meaningful curative effect on the volumes of misinformation rubbish regularly purveyed by the Fox opinion non-news hosts such as Carlson, Hannity, and the rest.

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

"In addition to the huge financial price, Dominion exacted a difficult admission from Fox News, which acknowledged in a statement that “certain claims” it made about Dominion were false."

...

" the network was not forced to apologize — a concession that Dominion lawyers had sought, lawyers involved in the case said."

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/18/business/media/fox-dominion-defamation-settle.html

 

[Eric Loh]

1 hour ago, ozimoron said:

 

tldr; Business as usual. The outrage machine is alive and well and crazy town will hear that nothing happened.

There are rumors that Fox may jettison some of their lead personalities to rejuvenate their image. They didn’t hesitated to cancel Lou Dobb’s show soon after Smartmatic sued Fox. Maybe just maybe business may not be usual after this massive payoff and damage to their image. Will like to see Tucker Carlson gone for good. 

[Berkshire]

23 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

Be very interested to see/hear just what exact kind of "admitting to telling lies" admissions Fox will have to publicly make via the terms of the settlement.

 

And even more so, whether this resolution and the likely coming resolution of the Smartmatic litigation will have any meaningful curative effect on the volumes of misinformation rubbish regularly purveyed by the Fox opinion non-news hosts such as Carlson, Hannity, and the rest.

 

The only way Fox News will change their ways is if somehow, telling the truth becomes more profitable.  What's the chance of that happening?  Their idiot audience wants to be lied to.  Needs to be lied to.  So Fox will continue to deliver. 

[newbee2022]

It's a pity. I favoured the court trial. Would have been very entertaining????

[newnative]

Pity they settled--and for such a piddly amount--the equivalent of loose change in Murdoch's sofa cushions.  I was looking forward to the lying jerks having to testify under oath.

[Berkshire]

13 minutes ago, newnative said:

Pity they settled--and for such a piddly amount--the equivalent of loose change in Murdoch's sofa cushions.  I was looking forward to the lying jerks having to testify under oath.

Yeah, I think everyone's disappointed that Fox won't be in court to explain their deceit.  But $787 mil isn't small change, at least not to Dominion.  As strong as their case was, they knew that a defamation case is risky, not to mention years of litigation and appeals, even if they had won.  I can see why they took the money.  Luckily, there are a few more cases ongoing.  So the Fox lies will be in the news for awhile. 

[vandeventer]

For telling lies? I wonder which media news will be next? So many news media to chose from including the fake news media.

[billd766]

1 minute ago, vandeventer said:

For telling lies? I wonder which media news will be next? So many news media to chose from including the fake news media.

Well done for trying to defend the indefensible.

 

Perhaps you should become a lawyer for Fox news.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

14 minutes ago, vandeventer said:

For telling lies? I wonder which media news will be next? So many news media to chose from including the fake news media.

I think you'd have to search far and wide to find such an egregious case of a major U.S. "news" source putting forward a sustained many months long campaign of endlessly repeated blatant disinformation / false information on such an important, pivotal national issue that, according to its depositions, even Fox management and the falsity spouting hosts knew was false.

 

Good luck with that!

 

In dollar terms, the media are describing the nearly $800 million settlement here as the largest defamation settlement in U.S. history. There's a reason for that, and it's based on the extremity of Fox's conduct here..

 

 

[hotchilli]

5 hours ago, Eric Loh said:

Lies have consequences. Coming soon will be the Smartmatic $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit and anchors Maria Bartiromo, Lou Dobbs and Jeanine Pirro named. as well as Sidney Powell and Giuliani. If successful this will hit Fox's bottom line after the Dominion settlement for $787.5. Shareholders will be furious as well as scared and may start start selling and could lead to more financial vulnerability. 

Fox news has become a joke.

[Rimmer]

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[klauskunkel]

8 hours ago, bamnutsak said:

Fox News said it is "pleased" to have settled its dispute with Dominion.

I can just see how they collectively creamed their pants...

[newnative]

1 hour ago, Berkshire said:

Yeah, I think everyone's disappointed that Fox won't be in court to explain their deceit.  But $787 mil isn't small change, at least not to Dominion.  As strong as their case was, they knew that a defamation case is risky, not to mention years of litigation and appeals, even if they had won.  I can see why they took the money.  Luckily, there are a few more cases ongoing.  So the Fox lies will be in the news for awhile. 

Yes, I understand why they took it, too.  A bird in the hand. . .    At least it's still a big black eye for Fox.

[mrfill]

It's an odd world when a party that makes itself an accessory to treason and misleads millions of people by continuously lying, gets a fine and can then continue spewing its filth, whereas a party (Wikileaks/Assange) that distributes the truth (albeit some very inconvenient truths) gets imprisoned without trial for years with a possibility of being murdered by the state.

[Eric Loh]

1 hour ago, hotchilli said:

Fox news has become a joke.

Became a joke in so many ways.

1. Gave Dominion Voting Systems Inc. a whopping return on its investment of more than 1,500%

2. Allow Jake Tapperto have a good laugh while reading Fox's statement on commitment to the highest journalistic standard

3. Fox saying little about the unprecedented massive Dominion settlement  

[Bangkok Barry]

6 hours ago, ballpoint said:

"This settlement reflects FOX's continued commitment to the highest journalistic standards..."

 

There they go. Still lying through their teeth.

"This settlement reflects FOX's continued commitment to the highest inability to meet even basic journalistic standards..."

 

There. Fixed it,

[jerrymahoney]

And with (at least ) the Dominion libel suit behind it, Rupert Murdoch and Fox News look forward to covering the 2024 Donald J. Trump Presidential campaign.

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

Perhaps Fox's settlement here was a recognition of how the court case against them was likely to fare, considering one of the recent comments by the judge in the case, as follows:

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5byuXpK7MNk

 

I guess you know you're going down the drain when the judge handling the case feels the need to emphasize the extent of Fox's lies with the all-caps reference "CRYSTAL clear"!  ????