Fox News didn't care about its lies -- until the truth of a billion-dollar lawsuit got its attention

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Sean Hannity of Fox “News” asked that question of Ted Koppel four years ago as the latter was interviewing him on “CBS Sunday Morning.” Yes, answered Koppel, “because you’re very good at what you do and . . . you have attracted people who are determined that ideology is more important than facts.”

Thus dressed down, Hannity smirked and made a face. He later asserted that Koppel — 1992 inductee into the Television Academy Hall of Fame, winner of nine Peabody Awards and 25 Emmys for journalistic excellence — is “not a journalist.” His echo chamber promptly echoed him. Laura Ingraham called him a “victim.” Michelle Malkin derided Koppel as “a walking dead decrepit media elitist.”

Anyone naive enough to believe Koppel’s exercise in speaking truth to falsity might chasten Hannity and other facts-impervious right-wing pundits was thus duly educated. What do they care? They’ve been dressed down by a thousand Ted Koppels for their utter indifference to truth and the damage it’s inflicted upon this country. They’ve happily ignored it all. But now comes something they can’t ignore, and it means business — literally.

Consider that, in December, Fox and Newsmax ran extraordinary segments debunking bogus claims made by their own hosts and guests against Smartmatic, a provider of election technology, over its supposed role in supposed voter fraud. This came after threatening letters from Smartmatic attorneys. Last week, the company filed a $2.7 billion defamation suit against Fox, two of its guests (Donald Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell) and three of its hosts (Lou Dobbs, Maria Bartiromo and Jeanine Pirro).

https://www.yahoo.com/news/fox-news-didn-t-care-215012555.html

[Laelth]

1. Excellent. Hit them where it hurts ...

... their wallets!



-Laelth

[pazzyanne]

5. Strange how money talks,

and people listen when it hits their pocketbooks.

[Irish_Dem]

2. This may be the only way to get the relentless propaganda to stop.

[magicarpet]

3. Same thing with sexual harassment issues all the way back to,..

.... plumpy stud boy Roger Ailes, and the legions of other stud muffins at I-Fux-U-SnooZ.

After they got slammed with big dollar law suits then they took things semi seriously.

I only wish we could sue them off the boob tube before they totally Nazi-fy our government and country.

[Stuart G]

4. Great Post...Thanks for Posting...K & R

[AmyStrange]

6. "...you have attracted people who are determined that ideology is more important than facts."

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Bazinga!!!
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