Fox knews the whole time
Revelations via Washington Post media critic Erik Wemple on the Dominion lawsuit against Fox Infotainment.
“Syndey Powell is a bit nuts. Sorry but she is,” Laura Ingraham messaged to Tucker Carlson.
So you don’t have to click through:
‘Please get her fired’
Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity wanted Fox reporter Jacqui Heinrich fired for fact-checking a Trump statement and tweeting there was “no evidence that any voting deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised.”
“Please get her fired. Seriously…. What the fuck?” Carlson messaged Hannity.
A Fox spokesperson claims Dominion “cherry-picked quotes stripped of key context.”
I need to keep reminding myself never to refer to the second half of Fox [etc.]. The operation’s very name is propaganda and none of us need to be reinforcing it by spreading it. No matter how its anchors vainly see themselves.
Wemple continues:
The minutiae disclosed in the Dominion filing are scandalous: They show just how incompatible is the hosts’ candid chatter with the product they put on the airwaves — and the reason for that gulf is ratings. Period.
By filing its suit and plowing through discovery, Dominion has produced perhaps the most piercing look at the internal goings-on at Fox News in its quarter-century history.
One caveat: News organizations that proceed through discovery in defamation suits rarely look good. Think of the New York Times in the Sarah Palin suit — discovery exposed a shoddy and hurried editorial process that the Times surely didn’t want to see in the light of day.
And when the WikiLeaks dumps of 2016 showed reporters’ emails with people in the political sphere, the results often were unflattering. Yet those instances were far more mild than what we see in these Fox News revelations. This is astounding.
Fox celebrities are ideologues, but they are not stupid. Tucker Carlson’s cackling, dumb-face shtick is just that. But that doesn’t mean he isn’t committed to Trumpism any less than the Murdochs. Fox is a propaganda operation. That’s as obvious as Republicans’ commitment to supressing the vote and eliminating Social Security and Medicare, notwithstanding their “how dare you” outrage at the suggestion.
