{"id":44705,"date":"2023-04-29T17:20:12","date_gmt":"2023-04-29T07:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=44705"},"modified":"2023-04-29T17:20:12","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T07:20:12","slug":"fox-news-decision-to-settle-dominion-lawsuit-for-more-than-three-quarters-of-a-billion-dollars-makes-no-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=44705","title":{"rendered":"Fox News Decision to Settle Dominion Lawsuit for More Than Three-Quarters of a Billion Dollars Makes No Sense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Something fishy here.<\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_2\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">First, corporate executives don\u2019t give away $787 million of shareholders\u2019 money without a test of the claim in court.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_3\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">Second, it is not defamation to report the news. Tucker Carlson reported the claims of experts. That is news reporting. Dominion\u2019s defamation lawsuit should have been filed against the experts. It wasn\u2019t, because the experts had the evidence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_4\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">Third, Experts supplied evidence that the Dominion voting machines could be programmed to count votes differently from how the votes were cast; experts supplied evidence that the machines could be hacked; experts supplied evidence that the voting machines were connected to the Internet. Fox News could have called these experts as expert witnesses. By agreeing to settle, Fox News refused the evidence its day in court. Why?<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_5\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">A possible explanation is that Fox News, voluntarily or involuntarily, participated in an orchestration that established the precedent that reporting news different from the narrative, or news that is unfavorable to a person, company, or government institution, is defamation. Think about what this means. A prosecutor who charges a person with a crime has defamed the person. Truth becomes unreportable. Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh could be charged for defamation, and for being a Russian agent, for reporting that the US government destroyed the Nord Stream pipeline.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_6\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">When we see the few truth-tellers who are the stars of their organizations jettisoned\u2013Tucker Carlson from Fox News, Matt Taibbi from Rolling Stone, Glenn Greenwald from The Intercept, James O\u2019Keefe from Project Veritas, President Trump charged under a non-existent law, and Wikileaks\u2019 Julian Assange imprisoned for a decade without due process, we must face the fact that there is an organized conspiracy to suppress truth. We are experiencing the completion of The Matrix in which expressed doubt or even unspoken suspicion of official narratives are criminal offenses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_7\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">Truth-tellers receive almost nonexistent support. The inescapable conclusion is that in the Western world truth has no future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_8\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">Tyranny is upon us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/proberts\/fox-news-decision-to-settle-dominion-lawsuit-for-more-than-three-quarters-of-a-billion-dollars-makes-no-sense\/\">https:\/\/www.unz.com\/proberts\/fox-news-decision-to-settle-dominion-lawsuit-for-more-than-three-quarters-of-a-billion-dollars-makes-no-sense\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something fishy here. First, corporate executives don\u2019t give away $787 million of shareholders\u2019 money without a test of the claim in court. Second, it is not defamation to report the news. Tucker Carlson reported the claims of experts. That is news reporting. Dominion\u2019s defamation lawsuit should have been filed against the experts. It wasn\u2019t, because &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=44705\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fox News Decision to Settle Dominion Lawsuit for More Than Three-Quarters of a Billion Dollars Makes No Sense&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44706,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44705\/revisions\/44706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}