Report: Fox News is worried about legal action after misleading viewers about coronavirus

[Clash City Rocker]

There must be some lawyers out there. Would their viewers have a case?

https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-news-worried-about-legal-action-after-misleading-viewers-about-coronavirus

[elleng]

1. GOOD.

Difficult to make a case for defamation (libel/slander, someone's words end up causing harm to your reputation or your livelihood. Libel is a written or published defamatory statement, while slander is defamation that is spoken by the defendant.)

Sadly, these days, dishonesty/lying is/may be protected speech, but would like to see someones try.

[neeksgeek]

2. I hope it costs them millions of dollars. nt

[sheshe2]

3. Sue their asses.

Then ban them from broadcasting their stupidity.

[Zambero]

4. "Genuine" FAKE NEWS has its consequences

With Fox, where does one start?

[Skittles]

5. they should be but...

their viewers have been buying bullshit from Faux News since the start - how would they explain that?

[Harker]

6. A class action suit with tens of millions of plaintiffs

ought to set them back a bit.

[Under The Radar]

7. What should concern them most is their largest viewer demographic

.....is at the highest risk of death from this virus, where each of them will at least know a person that dies from this disease or themselves will die.
Perhaps that is why some Fox Host have changed their tune.

[la-trucker]

9. I agree with this

Their Trump support is going to come back to haunt them when the pandemic explodes and consumes their demographic and they will remember (stupidly) trusting Trump and his propaganda machine

[TheBlackAdder]

8. It doesn't help that the Murdochs took preparations for their own family in January/February.

[Initech]

10. Good, I hope that the Murdochs and Hannity are penniless after this.

[33taw]

11. Aren't they classified as an entertainment channel rather than news?

[grumpyduck]

12. And I hope they all end up living on the $17 a day

that prick Mnuchin was talking about.