Minutes after the announcement of the Fox News-Dominion settlement, Fox media analyst Howard Kurtz calls the lies that Dominion stole votes from Donald Trump — which the network helped spread — “obviously false” and “conspiracy theories.” pic.twitter.com/t1FKDfxjG3
— The Recount (@therecount) April 18, 2023
Former President Trump and his allies made this case on Fox and elsewhere, that somehow they were stealing votes from Donald Trump and flipping them for Joe Biden. That’s obviously false. Those were conspiracy theories,” he said.
“But the case would have revolved around whether Fox had done due diligence, whether it was reckless, whether it was simply reporting, as the network contends, on an extremely newsworthy matter argued by the then-president of the United States himself.”'Course it’s Howard Kurtz, not Hannity or Carlson, both of whom had to continue the fine FoxNews tradition of pandering to their audiences:
Producer 1: We gotta think of a way to distract people from the $785 million settlement
— Acyn (@Acyn) April 19, 2023
Producer 2: How about we put Hannity on with a banner that says “The Price of Incompetence” pic.twitter.com/HAPfBvtQV4
If Hannity and Carlson each turned to the camera and said: “Trump lied about the 2020 election because his fragile narcissistic ego couldn’t handle reality, and he spewed a bunch of conspiracy theories which we uncritically and slanderously repeated to you, our viewers, because we couldn’t risk losing you. We have no integrity, we just want to keep you watching.”, their audience would have simply yelled at their TeeVees.Is there any way to interpret this kind of conversation that isn’t “the wrong people are procreating?” https://t.co/wUGqPFAMdH pic.twitter.com/72FZjm9vPc
— Schooley (@Rschooley) April 19, 2023
Nothing that is broken in our system got fixed today. That is the only meaningful metric of the Fox-Dominion settlement. We seem increasingly incapable of righting wrongs, reversing attacks, reducing threats.
— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) April 19, 2023
Every. Minute.It is a dangerous moment.
— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) April 19, 2023
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