Check out an AP feed Strib carried: "Dominion Voting sues Fox for $1.6B over 2020 election claims," By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press -March 26, 2021 — 8:45am
It is an online report you can read for detail.
From the report:
"The truth matters. Lies have consequences," the lawsuit said. "Fox sold a false story of election fraud in order to serve its own commercial purposes, severely injuring Dominion in the process. If this case does not rise to the level of defamation by a broadcaster, then nothing does."
Even before Dominion's lawsuit on Friday, Fox News had already filed four motions to dismiss other legal actions against its coverage.
"Fox News Media is proud of our 2020 election coverage, which stands in the highest tradition of American journalism, and we will vigorously defend against this baseless lawsuit in court," it said in a statement on Friday.
That last paragraph makes an assertion which is pure horseshit.
That said, FOX can sue me. It's own quoted statement is opinion, not a representation of fact, since "highest tradition of American journalism" is not a discernible fact, but a matter of thought and judgment. The opinion here is the phrase sets a quite low bar, yet one FOX cannot fit under transcend [they fit well under the bar for even merely decent journalism, middling tradition - please excuse the original mind lapse]. Opinions can differ.
Claiming that FOX presents instances of "journalism" again is opinion. It presents horseshit is the opinion here, which content might arguably be called "journalism" if tabloids also are accorded that status, in your opinion, but characterizing FOX and the tabloids, as journalism, is like saying "Hillary lost to Trump because of Bernie." Hillary might believe that, but again, it is opinion. As is blaming Comey, rather than Podesta and Mook, the main operatives upon whom the Clintons relied.
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The interesting question, when will Dominion file THE BIG ONE? If filed and won, that victory would be the one for which the most celebratory popcorn would be popped. On that question, Dominion might want to move quickly because Trump assets may be at a current level higher than later.
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It would be helpful to see, if FOX were taken down in size by about $1.6 billion. It could even result in Tucker Carlson being taken back a notch in his whining, provocative incivility. It would take only one $1.6 billion judgment to be noticed as incentive for change. Even a $1.5 billion judgment might do the trick.
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FOX? Try this tradition of American journalism, for a fit like a hand in a glove.