The network has agreed to pay $787.5m for promoting election lies, but mentions of the case were few and far between
There was a brief mention of the decision during the network’s “news” hours. Host Neil Cavuto gave 30 seconds to the story in passing, citing a Wall Street Journal report about the settlement, before quickly moving on.
Tucker Carlson, Fox News’s most popular host, began as he normally does – trying to make his older white viewers very scared. He showed videos of antisocial behavior by small groups of mostly black teenagers in Chicago and Compton over the weekend. About the black teenager Ralph Yarl, who was shot after mistakenly ringing the wrong doorbell by an 84-year-old white man, Carlson offered: “These kinds of mistakes do happen, and they’re always sad. Assuming this was a mistake – we don’t know all the details.” He then admonished Joe Biden for trying to use the incident to “incite racial conflict”.
Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham, whose programs follow Carlson’s, both led on “Biden’s war against women’s sports” stoking fears about trans athletes. Neither mentioned the Dominion case. Finally, Gutfeld, a self-proclaimed comedian who occasionally strays a little further in his talking points, didn’t dare go near the story either.
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