Fox News Lies - and Murdoch pays millions
The News Agents
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4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
This is your midweek episode of Succession. Because Rupert Murdoch - aka Logan Roy - has shelled out nearly 800 million dollars to settle a defamation suit brought by Dominion - a company that makes voting machines.
Fox News had tried to claim the voting machines manipulated the result of the 2020 presidential election to make Trump lose. Which was clearly bollocks.
Late last night, Fox settled out of court - to make the trial of the century go away. Today we get inside the Murdoch mind with former Sun Newspaper editor David Yelland.
We also ask why food is getting ever more expensive with the latest inflation figures.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.0 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:16.5 | In a courtroom in Wilmington, Delaware, yesterday afternoon, life was imitating art. |
| 0:24.7 | And for those of you who love Succession, the real Logan Roy, aka Rupert Murdoch, was having to shell out nearly a billion dollars, not from Waco, but from Fox, to settle a libel action brought by |
| 0:42.4 | Dominion voting machines. |
| 0:44.7 | It was a moment of high drama. |
| 0:47.3 | We were all gathered, expecting the, let's say, trial of the century to begin. |
| 0:52.4 | When Dominion voting systems, this is a company that |
| 0:56.1 | makes actual voting machines, had accused Fox News of airing claims that its machines, yes, |
| 1:04.6 | its machines were involved in a plot to steal the presidential election from Trump. And Dominion alleged that the network |
| 1:13.7 | broadcasts that Fox knew they were false, but carried on repeating them because they didn't want |
| 1:20.7 | to lose viewers to other networks. At the moment where we thought the trial was about to begin just before the opening statements, |
| 1:30.5 | suddenly a halt and a delay and an offer is on the table. |
| 1:36.4 | Dominion walks away richer than it ever thought it would, |
| 1:39.8 | and Fox has got away without seeing its prime presenters on the stand or having to apologize on air. |
| 1:50.3 | So this is the real-life version of Succession. |
| 1:54.7 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:56.9 | Fuck off. |
| 2:03.8 | The News Agents. |
| 2:06.1 | It's John. |
| 2:07.2 | It's Emily. |
| 2:07.9 | And a little bit later, we'll be talking about inflation figures and what it's doing to the price of food. |
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