Fox Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch said a deposition in an already-explosive defamation case against his company’s top business, Fox News, that “some of our commentators were endorsing&#…
. At issue in the suits, are allegations that Fox News falsely claimed the companies had rigged the election, repeated items about the matter and refused to engage in efforts to set the record straight. The 2020 election was not fixed and its results were certified by multiple legal processes.
“Dominion’s lawsuit has always been more about what will generate headlines than what can withstand legal and factual scrutiny,” Fox said in a statement Monday, suggesting that Dominion’s “summary judgment motion took an extreme, unsupported view of defamation law that would prevent journalists from basic reporting and their efforts to publicly smear Fox for covering and commenting on allegations by a sitting President of the United States should be recognized for what it is: a blatant...
For its part, Fox made the case that most of the dialogue and testimony Dominion had collected “is utterly irrelevant to the legal issues in this case. Dominion’s focus on such irrelevant evidence demonstrates that it is more interested in headlines than law or fact.” “Dominion is a strong believer in the First Amendment and its protections,” Dominion said in a statement. “As long-settled law makes clear, the First Amendment does not shield broadcasters that knowingly or recklessly spread lies.”
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