Fox News Journalists Sound Off on 'Soul-Crushing' Dominion Filings

[JoeOtterbein]

Source: Daily Beast

“I think no regular person could read this and look at Fox like a news organization at this point.”

In the wake of bombshell legal filings showing that Fox News executives and stars seemingly sought to pacify their disgruntled MAGA viewers by airing election lies, while punishing and censoring the employees attempting to deliver the actual truth, the above observation has become commonplace within media circles.

But some of the shots are being fired from within the conservative cable giant.

According to nine Fox News staffers and insiders, the pre-trial filings in Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News further impugn and sully the reputation of the network’s “straight news” journalists, especially since they show Fox was “operating out of fear” over losing viewers to smaller right-wing competitors following its Decision Desk’s early (and accurate) Arizona election night call for President Joe Biden.

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-journos-sound-off-on-soul-crushing-dominion-legal-filings?ref=home

[Joinfortmill]

1. Shut them down

[JoeOtterbein]

2. +1 nt

[cstanleytech]

7. Would require that they lose enough of their advertisers long enough that they

burn through their cash reserves.
That to be honest is unlikely to happen as at most the varies companies would only suspend advertising on Fox just long enough until they believe the heat has died down a bit.

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

13. Yep, probably...

... But I think ol' Rupert is setting it all up to say, "we are registered as an entertainment entity, so we never had to tell the truth".

As they have done in past lawsuits concerning censorship and editorial hijinx.

[PSPS]

24. They get most of their money from compulsory carry fees of cable/satellite companies, not ads.

[cstanleytech]

25. Most but not all. Now if people really want to hurt them the ones to put their feet under the fire

should be the cable companies.
If the 5 largest cable companies dropped Fox that would really hurt Fox.

[SouthernDem4ever]

32. Been trying to get my provider to drop Fox News for year

or at least give me a plan where my monthly fees don't feed their lying machine.

[UpInArms]

3. Take away their FCC license

and salt the ground they stand on …

they should be sent to the dustbin in ignominious fate

[MarineCombatEngineer]

4. There is no FCC license to take away,

Faux operates over cable, of which the FCC has no authority over and no license to operate.

[aggiesal]

5. Take away the Fox affiliates FCC license n/t

[MarineCombatEngineer]

6. why?

The OTA Fox affiliates are nothing like Faux cable, matter of fact, the local Fox channels are pretty good at their programming, I love watching Fox shows like American Dad, Simpsons, Family Guy plus during baseball season, they do a great job of broadcasting.

Their news casts are pretty straight forward and accurate, so why would you want the FCC to take away their license to operate on public airwaves?

[aggiesal]

9. So FOX News stories never make it to the Fox affiliates? ...

Their hosts never appear on any Fox affiliates?
They still feed $$$'s into the Fox coffers.

I feel they're guilty after the fact.
Sunday programming has FOX News Sunday.

So yes, I don't believe they're innocent in all this.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

11. So that's your reason for the FCC to yank their broadcast license?

I feel they're guilty after the fact.

The courts and repigs would have a field day with that.

What you feel and what's legal are 2 far different things, thankfully.

[SouthernDem4ever]

33. Actually there's a much larger problem on the affiliate level and it's not just fox

All of the locals are being gobbled up by larger corps who are controlling the narrative of what the affiliates report. So it's not just Fux, but almost all of them. They need to be broken back up and made separate entities that serve their local communities better.

[Wuddles440]

26. Interesting...

because that's not been my experience with the Faux affiliate for the Cleveland market! While not as overtly partisan as their cable sibling, they certainly have a right wing bias and promote their cable programming/hosts.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

27. Well, I travel the country,

spend nights in truck stops across the country and watch Fox affiliates quite often and my experience is far different than yours.
I have not once seen any promoting of Faux hosts on any of the affiliates I've watched over the few years I've been a truck driver so yours is probably an anomaly.

[Wuddles440]

28. Not an "anomaly"...

because my sisters have reported such a bias with the Faux affiliate in Pittsburgh.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

29. I'm giving you my experiences with many different Fox affiliates,

as I said, the many Fox affiliates I've watched while in my truck are far different than what you describe.

[cstanleytech]

8. On what grounds?

[MarineCombatEngineer]

14. Apparently on these grounds.

I feel they're guilty after the fact.

[cstanleytech]

16. Except Fox News is not the Fox tv network not to mention

local affiliates that carry the Fox programming are most of the time not even owned by the network.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

18. +100. nt

[TygrBright]

10. Lie down with dogs, wake up a-scratchin'... n/t

[NCjack]

12. When Dominion engulfs Fox News, and the new company Dominion News Corporation

emerges, all management and propagandists will be replaced.

[Grimelle]

31. I am loving this scenario.

[W T F]

15. Fox News "Journalists"?????? Thay don't have Journalists, They're Paid Actors.

[ShazzieB]

17. They do have some actual journalists.

Like Chris Wallace, for example. I think the so-called "personalities" (Hannity, Carlson, Ingraham, etc.) make the whole organization look so bad that I don't know why any "real" journalist would want to be associated with it, but some of them continue to hold on, for whatever reason.

[czarjak]

19. Chris went bye-bye.

[ShazzieB]

23. Good for him!

I missed hearing about that, but it sounds like a good move for him.

It's ironic, considering that I used him as an example because he was the only Fox Noise "journalist" I knew by name, other than Shepherd Smith, who went bye-bye a while back.

[Auggy74]

20. It's not about the red or the blue...

It's about the green.

[RockRaven]

21. No person who has worked for FUX in the last two decades can claim the title of "journalist"

And don't bother with any "but Shep Smith! but Chris Wallace!" bullshit. Those guys were gleeful propagandists for years until they hit some personal limit.

[Warpy]

22. Lies always get found out, ask George Santos (or whoever he is)

and the bigger and more numerous the lies, the bigger the consequences.

Besides, you guys didn't have souls to crush. You sold them to the highest bidder years ago.

[Novara]

30. " sully the reputation "

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

As soon as you become an employee, your reputation is toast.

What I want to see is Dominion winning their case, of course, then I want to see the court mandate that Fox has to publicly apologize, run constant disclaimers, and risk being fined if they report anything as "news" that is not backed up by fact. I'd like to see a running crawl on their broadcasts with a disclaimer that this is not news. And I'd like to see them prohibited from calling themselves "news."

I'd also like to see the Fairness Doctrine come back.

[calimary]

34. I'd have to ask: "so why are you still working there?"

You’re accepting their money. What does that make you?