CMRivdogs Posted April 18, 2023 Share Posted April 18, 2023 No apology, no on air statements necessary. One could only hope that they would need to trip two or three top salaried employees, but that won’t happen either. Stockholders will get screwed however Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smr-nj Posted April 18, 2023 Share Posted April 18, 2023 27 minutes ago, oblong said: Not too surprised except that it came now. Unless Fox panicked and upped their offer. As I said I can’t blame dominion. Their responsibility is to themselves. If you as a business sue for defamation then the resolution is a business resolution. It’s not their job to fix the political media landscape. (I stole that sentence from twitter) The jury had been selected and sworn in. I think the Fox lawyers must have assessed the jury and said “we can’t go to trial”, and then upped their settlement offer big time. I agree that Dominion lawyers should have only been looking out for their client’s interest, and it absolutely wasn’t their job to go forward and risk defeat (because you can never be 100% sure what a jury will do). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Cowan Posted April 18, 2023 Share Posted April 18, 2023 Dominion had no choice, otherwise they could end up with nothing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasfh Posted April 18, 2023 Share Posted April 18, 2023 I understand Dominion did what they thought was best for themselves and the company. I just hate that they did it, is all. I wanted to see Fox shamed Cersei Lannister-style. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smr-nj Posted April 18, 2023 Share Posted April 18, 2023 1 minute ago, chasfh said: I understand Dominion did what they thought was best for themselves and the company. I just hate that they did it, is all. I wanted to see Fox shamed Cersei Lannister-style. Yeah. For sure we all wanted to pull out our giant bag of popcorn & watch some sweat-stained witnesses on the stand. 😂 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMRivdogs Posted April 18, 2023 Share Posted April 18, 2023 I just want to see Sean, Tucker, and Maria collecting unemployment Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasfh Posted April 18, 2023 Share Posted April 18, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, CMRivdogs said: No apology, no on air statements necessary. One could only hope that they would need to trip two or three top salaried employees, but that won’t happen either. Stockholders will get screwed however It's driving me a little crazy that some of the early assessments of the settlement are that Fox had to admit in their statement that they lied about Dominion on their programs, even though they don't have to admit that on air, and that's still pure shame on them. But is it really? "We are pleased to have reached a settlement of our dispute with Dominion Voting Systems. We acknowledge the Court’s rulings finding certain claims about Dominion to be false," Fox News Corp. said in a statement. That doesn't look to me like them saying "we lied." That looks to me like them saying, "Well, the judge says that some of what we claimed is false, and yeah, sure, we acknowledge he said that." Definitely not the same. And nobody who watches Fox will hear boo about this, except in the sense that the woke libtard justice system is out of control and needs to be reformed. Edited April 18, 2023 by chasfh 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smr-nj Posted April 18, 2023 Share Posted April 18, 2023 Yeah, but, even if it had gone to trial, the fox viewer was never going to get this story any other way but slanted if he continued to watch Fox during the trial. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oblong Posted April 19, 2023 Share Posted April 19, 2023 52 minutes ago, smr-nj said: Yeah, but, even if it had gone to trial, the fox viewer was never going to get this story any other way but slanted if he continued to watch Fox during the trial. Yep. This. No result would have given us what we wanted. A verdict against Fox with all kinds of embarrassing testimony could have occurred and they wouldn’t lose a single viewer. We all know the truth and testimony isn’t needed to confirm it. Fox was never going to be bankrupted or hosts fired. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMRivdogs Posted April 19, 2023 Share Posted April 19, 2023 There is still the Smartmatic lawsuit out there. That one includes two Fox anchors, Lou Dobbs and Maria Bartiromo as well as Fox. They’re seeking $2.79 Billion. It will be interesting to see if there’s a settlement soon just to sweep it all under the rug Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pfife Posted April 19, 2023 Author Share Posted April 19, 2023 My recollection is that Dominion also sued Rudi Colludy and Sidney Powell for 1.6b each as well. Neither of them will have the capacity to settle at 857m. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oblong Posted April 19, 2023 Share Posted April 19, 2023 25 minutes ago, pfife said: My recollection is that Dominion also sued Rudi Colludy and Sidney Powell for 1.6b each as well. Neither of them will have the capacity to settle at 857m. and newsmax and OAN. Those are the ones who can be "Gawker-ed" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewsieg Posted April 19, 2023 Share Posted April 19, 2023 6 minutes ago, oblong said: and newsmax and OAN. Those are the ones who can be "Gawker-ed" I never watched Newsmax or OAN, but my understanding is they 'led' this charge, Fox News just followed along. I don't see any end for them but being "Gawker-ed". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasfh Posted April 20, 2023 Share Posted April 20, 2023 Yup. The real loser is the cable-/satellite-/streaming-subscriber public, who will be paying Fox News’s settlement with the higher carriage fees they will demand to maintain the channel on packages, as practically required. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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romad1 Posted April 21, 2023 Share Posted April 21, 2023 This gives me some hope. This is from the front page of Drudge...so I don't know the ultimate source of this data. The Muir ABC broadcast is the closest thing to a straight news broadcast I know of right now. They still do the heartwarming, puppies-who-have-returning-veteran-owners or veterans-who-get-to-see-their-long lost...[insert whatever noun] stories at the end of the broadcast which is just dumb dead air to me. ABC MUIR 7,548,000 CBS 60 MINS 7,376,000 NBC HOLT 6,183,000 CBS SUNDAY MORNING 4,795,000 CBS O'DONNELL 4,335,000 FOX TUCKER 3,223,000 ABC GMA 3,135,000 FOX FIVE 3,011,000 CBS FACE NATION 2,877,000 NBC TODAY 2,749,000 ABC STEPHANOPOULOS 2,522,000 MSNBC MADDOW 2,497,000 FOX HANNITY 2,434,000 NBC MEET PRESS 2,423,000 FOX JESSE WATTERS 2,309,000 FOX BAIER 2,302,000 CBS MORNING 2,286,000 FOX INGRAHAM 1,788,000 FOX GUTFELD 1,757,000 FOX FOX & FRIENDS 1,522,000 MSNBC O'DONNELL 1,397,000 FOX LEVIN 1,389,000 MSNBC HAYES 1,370,000 FOX BONGINO 1,179,000 CNN TAPPER 907,000 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasfh Posted April 22, 2023 Share Posted April 22, 2023 Are these Nielsen average minutes, or weekly or book cumes? Or maybe live-plus-sevens? That would help explain way Sunday Morning is so high. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtutiger Posted April 22, 2023 Share Posted April 22, 2023 On 4/20/2023 at 7:52 PM, romad1 said: This gives me some hope. This is from the front page of Drudge...so I don't know the ultimate source of this data. The Muir ABC broadcast is the closest thing to a straight news broadcast I know of right now. They still do the heartwarming, puppies-who-have-returning-veteran-owners or veterans-who-get-to-see-their-long lost...[insert whatever noun] stories at the end of the broadcast which is just dumb dead air to me. ABC MUIR 7,548,000 CBS 60 MINS 7,376,000 NBC HOLT 6,183,000 CBS SUNDAY MORNING 4,795,000 CBS O'DONNELL 4,335,000 FOX TUCKER 3,223,000 ABC GMA 3,135,000 FOX FIVE 3,011,000 CBS FACE NATION 2,877,000 NBC TODAY 2,749,000 ABC STEPHANOPOULOS 2,522,000 MSNBC MADDOW 2,497,000 FOX HANNITY 2,434,000 NBC MEET PRESS 2,423,000 FOX JESSE WATTERS 2,309,000 FOX BAIER 2,302,000 CBS MORNING 2,286,000 FOX INGRAHAM 1,788,000 FOX GUTFELD 1,757,000 FOX FOX & FRIENDS 1,522,000 MSNBC O'DONNELL 1,397,000 FOX LEVIN 1,389,000 MSNBC HAYES 1,370,000 FOX BONGINO 1,179,000 CNN TAPPER 907,000 It's also a reminder of how few Americans actually watch any of these cable shows Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtutiger Posted April 24, 2023 Share Posted April 24, 2023 WOW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RatkoVarda Posted April 24, 2023 Share Posted April 24, 2023 WOW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtutiger Posted April 24, 2023 Share Posted April 24, 2023 (edited) It's been noted in a few places, but FOX not giving him a final sendoff show suggests this was more of a hostile move. Maybe it stems from the Dominion settlement? Edited April 24, 2023 by mtutiger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Motown Bombers Posted April 24, 2023 Share Posted April 24, 2023 Did he actually get fired or is he going to another network? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gehringer_2 Posted April 24, 2023 Share Posted April 24, 2023 14 minutes ago, mtutiger said: WOW Yowza! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smr-nj Posted April 24, 2023 Share Posted April 24, 2023 He will peddle his propaganda elsewhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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