There are no legal orders barring media organizations from covering lawsuits they are involved in. I strongly disagree with that decision, but as an employee I have to abide by it.”Ī Fox News spokeswoman did not respond to a request for comment. “But,” he continued, “the company has decided as part of the organization being sued, I can’t talk about it or write about it, at least for now. The lone on-air mention of the case on Fox News has been by Howard Kurtz, who hosts the weekly Fox News show “MediaBuzz.” He addressed the Dominion case on the air this week, telling viewers: “I believe I should be covering it.” Those dueling legal arguments, though, haven’t been aired on Fox’s networks.
#Fox news headlines for today trial
The case is scheduled to go to trial in a Delaware state court in April.įox lawyers argued that its commentary and reporting after the election did not amount to defamation because its hosts had not endorsed falsehoods about Dominion and were, therefore, protected by the First Amendment.
Dominion says Fox did that in a reckless pursuit of ratings and profit, and is asking for $1.6 billion in damages. The filings include snippets of depositions, as well as emails, text messages and instant messages among Fox executives, such as Rupert Murdoch and his son Lachlan, and hosts like Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity.ĭominion, which makes voting technology, has accused Fox of repeatedly airing claims that its machines contributed to widespread fraud in the 2020 election despite knowing those claims were false. 16 and Monday, contain evidence that Dominion uncovered in its discovery process. “The things you ignore and the things you choose to highlight are an important part of how you show whether you are a serious news organization.” “Choosing not to do stories is a form of bias,” said Tom Rosenstiel, a veteran press critic and a journalism professor at the University of Maryland. And it means that many of the people who heard the conspiracy theories about election fraud on Fox’s networks may not be learning that Fox’s leaders and on-air stars privately dismissed those claims. The Gateway Pundit did not respond to requests for comment.Įven in a media world often divided along partisan lines, the paucity of coverage stands out, media experts said.
“These results are shocking,” one article asserted. One of those, The Gateway Pundit, published three articles that included additional unfounded allegations about Dominion, including a suggestion that security vulnerabilities at one election site using Dominion machines could have led to some fraud, despite no evidence that votes were mismanaged. (Some of those 18 published wire stories originally written by The Associated Press or other services.)įour outlets mentioned the lawsuit in some way, but did not mention the comments from Fox News hosts. The majority - 18 in all, including Fox News itself - did not cover the lawsuit at all with their own staff. 16, when the first batch of court filings were released publicly, according to a review by The New York Times. On 26 of the most popular conservative television news networks, radio shows, podcasts and websites, only four - National Review, Townhall, The Federalist and Breitbart News - have mentioned the private messages from Fox News hosts that disparaged election fraud claims since Feb. The revelations, made public in a defamation lawsuit against Fox brought by Dominion Voting Systems, have generated headlines around the world.īut in the conservative media world? Mostly crickets. Over the past two weeks, legal filings containing private messages and testimony from Fox hosts and executives revealed that many of them had serious doubts that Democrats stole the 2020 presidential election through widespread voter fraud, even as those claims were made repeatedly on Fox’s shows. So have a constellation of right-wing websites and podcasts. Newsmax and One America News, Fox’s rivals on the right, have steered clear, too. Fox News and its sister network, Fox Business, have avoided the story.
0 kommentar(er)
