The Internal Decapitation of Fox News

[Alexander Of Assyria]

2. Lengthy analysis for why Dominion pretrial Petition for final judgment could be granted.

« For all the copious documentation of justifiable defamation claims in the Dominion petition, this is its principal takeaway: Fox News is in no meaningful sense a news organization. Just for starters, engaging in a journalistic race to the bottom with an outlet like Newsmax—a wall-to-wall dreamscape of MAGA fabulation now fending off its own Dominion defamation suit—is something any remotely legitimate news-gathering operation should automatically lose by definition. But the outbursts of Scott, Carlson, and their colleagues aren’t detained by fusty notions of speaking truth to power or holding leaders accountable to the public interest; no, they are steeped in talk of branding and stock returns. This rhetoric veers into the territory of genuine bathos when the C-suite talk in Foxland turns to the laughable notion of “respecting” the network’s viewership, a bit of corporate jargon outstripped only by the reverent mentions of the sacred totem of Fox’s “brand.” »