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.” But Mike Lindell, CEO of a pillow company, went on Tucker Carlson’s show to lie about the election anyway. Dominion’s counsel asked Murdoch about his motives during his deposition, “It is not red or blue, it is green?” Murdoch agreed: it was about the green cash money.
Essentially, Fox News built a behemoth by telling people what they wanted to hear. But when what people wanted to hear was a fantasy — a possibly defamatory fantasy! — its hosts were trapped. They could tell the truth and lose viewers or lie and make the audience happy.. They don’t really believe anything and will say whatever will make them richer. The documents released so far in the Dominion suit back that up.
Fox News has never particularly been my cup of tea. But you can bet I’ll be glued to the coverage of this trial while the witnesses report and the jury decides.
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