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Mitakuye Oyasin
So apparently - folks at Fox News were not being honest with their viewers about what they internally knew to be not true about voting fraud claims being made by the lunatic fringe of Trump world.
It's, of course, no surprise. I mean - who finds this shocking? But the confirmation of this via the release of internal communication shows that it is an incontrovertible fact that this "news" organization was repeatedly and systematically lying to it's viewers. I may be wrong - but I'm pretty sure that there is no relative comparison of deception by a major source of news of this scale and importance, pertinence.
It's, of course, no surprise. I mean - who finds this shocking? But the confirmation of this via the release of internal communication shows that it is an incontrovertible fact that this "news" organization was repeatedly and systematically lying to it's viewers. I may be wrong - but I'm pretty sure that there is no relative comparison of deception by a major source of news of this scale and importance, pertinence.
Newly disclosed messages and testimony from some of the biggest stars and most senior executives at Fox News revealed that they privately expressed disbelief about President Donald J. Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him, even though the network continued to promote many of those lies on the air.
The hosts Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham, as well as others at the company, repeatedly insulted and mocked Trump advisers, including Sidney Powell and Rudolph W. Giuliani, in text messages with each other in the weeks after the election, according to a legal filing on Thursday by Dominion Voting Systems. Dominion is suing Fox for defamation in a case that poses considerable financial and reputational risk for the country’s most-watched cable news network.
“Sidney Powell is lying by the way. I caught her. It’s insane,” Mr. Carlson wrote to Ms. Ingraham on Nov. 18, 2020.
Ms. Ingraham responded: “Sidney is a complete nut. No one will work with her. Ditto with Rudy.”
Mr. Carlson continued, “Our viewers are good people and they believe it,” he added, making clear that he did not.
Fox knew vote rigging claims were false, Dominion says, as network defends coverage
Fox News repeatedly broadcast lies about vote-rigging claims that it knew were “total bs,” Dominion Voting Systems said in a filing made public on Thursday, as part of the election technology company's $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit.
www.reuters.com
Why Fox News Lied to Its Viewers
The network’s hosts and leaders knew that Trump had lost the election, but feared the consequences of telling their audience the truth.
www.theatlantic.com
Fox Stars Privately Expressed Disbelief About Election Fraud Claims. ‘Crazy Stuff.’ (Published 2023)
The comments, by Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and others, were released as part of a defamation suit against Fox News by Dominion Voter Systems.
www.nytimes.com
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