A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. This Was Total Vindication I’m a bit surprised by the unrealistic expectations so many people apparently harbored about the Dominion case. The bombshell revelations…
If your ideal scenario involved Fox News personalities and the Murdochs being forced to testify and getting chewed up on cross examination with a gargantuan verdict and punitive damages in the billions, I get you. But that was not even close to a guaranteed outcome of going to trial.
Second that!
Meanwhile, imagine seeing FN talking heads looking like this guy. The celebrity hosts humiliated their bosses. This is only round one.
Twitter is now 4 channel
Twitter removes ‘hateful conduct policy’ that previously classified misgendering, using the wrong pronouns and using biological names of trans people as ‘harrasment’ and a violation of Twitter policy.
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) April 18, 2023
The policy had been in place since 2018 prior to @elonmusk takeover and was… pic.twitter.com/hUrgGUs1Um
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Pizza chain targets Clarence Thomas, puts ‘every pie on sale’ to highlight his friendship with GOP donor | Fox Business
“It is a landmark defamation case that will be studied for years.”
Not in law schools or other legal circles. FOX didn’t want to set a legal precedent. That’s all they got from this. They lost in every other way.
Reflective of Thomas’s 1991 appointment on the court, the pizza restaurant used 8-bit graphics in its ad. Like Thomas, it’s an outdated way of doing things.
BucKLE up ButTERcuP, FOx WILL liKELY aPPEaL this HORRIBLE verdict whICH was a TOTAL vindicaTION of Fox NEws!11!1!!!one!!!11!!!
I have to admit to being one of those people disappointed by the settlement. Yes, much of Fox’s vile practices and lies have been aired in public. So those on the left have had their assumptions about what’s going on in the background confirmed. But after taking a financial hit they can surely sustain, they will go right on doing exactly what they did before, poisoning the culture and riling up the rubes. Perhaps they’ll be more careful with their internal communications, but we won’t see any change in their cancerous impact on our country and the world. Maybe nothing would have accomplished that, but it would have been nice to see Carlson and Ingram made fools of on the stand.
The Dominion/Fox settlement is a “breathtaking success” only if you don’t care about justice.
There. I said it.
Fox viewers will never hear anything about the Dominion suit.
Fox will conintue to lie and defame.
They’ve been doing it for years, even AFTER they were sued.
They will continue to do it.
Simply because the money they MAKE from lying, was WAY more than they had to pay out to Dominion or anyone else.
Now, I’m going to go watch Lawrence O’Donnell’s take on this, to see if even he can persuade me otherwise.
My money is against that.
AND WIN!!!
Certainly fair to see this as a victory for Dominion but a continuation of our nation’s suffering at the hands of FOX. A loss for the USA.
Go ahead, express this thought in ALL CAPS now.
Within a short period of time (maybe two weeks or so), few will remember that the thought is all bluster and forget that the agreement to pay an enormous sum was the result of an agreed settlement rather than a rigged verdict.
Fox is the symptom. They exist because there is a market for their garbage. If they disappeared tomorrow, someone would take their place.
Yeah, it doesn’t seem to have slowed them down one bit. I saw yesterday that the settlement amounts to approximately 8 months operating cost, so that does sound like a big hit in the context but it depends on how long they have to pay it off.
- The Fox settlement ranks as the second highest defamation award in U.S. legal history, behind only the Sandy Hook families’ $1 billion-plus in judgments against Alex Jones last year.
Wait…wait…wait a second here.
Fox engages in some of the worst, most heinous journalistic practices possible, destroyed the reputation and the ability of a company to move forward as a business entity, and almost destroyed our democracy and constitutional republic in the process…and Alex Jones still holds the record for the largest judgement?
You’re a monster, Alex Jones.
What, you think the trial would have resulted in Fox being dismantled or something? All that the trial would have done is ended up around the same place. Then paying money.
Sheesh, liberals. Can’t take a piece of good news without immediately Eeyoring it.
That “market” was created by them.
