Fox News Settles, SWA Flights Grounded & Final Netflix DVDs- Wednesday, April 19, 2023
The NewsWorthy
Erica Mandy
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🗓️ 19 April 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
The news to know for Wednesday, April 19, 2023!
We're telling you about what could be the largest media defamation settlement ever in the U.S. and what Fox News admitted about some of its coverage.
Also, Southwest Airlines planes were grounded nationwide yesterday. What happened to the airline already trying to rebuild its reputation?
Plus, there are new changes to the Covid-19 vaccine options; you could get Facebook to send you some money; and one part of Netflix's business is going away for good.
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| 0:00.0 | today is Wednesday, April 19th, what to know about what could be the largest media defamation settlement |
| 0:05.7 | ever in the U.S. and what Fox News admitted about some of its coverage. Also, Southwest Airlines |
| 0:11.2 | planes were grounded nationwide yesterday. What happened to the airline already trying to rebuild |
| 0:16.8 | its reputation? Plus, there are new changes to the COVID-19 vaccine options. How and why you could |
| 0:22.6 | get Facebook to send you some money? And it's the end of an era for Netflix, which part of its |
| 0:27.6 | business is going away for good. Those stories and more news in today's episode. |
| 0:34.1 | Welcome, welcome to The Newsworthy, all the days news in around 10 minutes. Fast, fair, fun, |
| 0:39.8 | and on the go. I'm Air Commandy, thanks so much for being here. You ready? Let's do this. |
| 0:48.9 | It could be the largest media defamation settlement ever in the U.S. |
| 0:52.5 | In the 11th hour, Fox News settled with the voting machine company that's been |
| 0:56.3 | suing the network for years now. On the day a jury trial was set to begin, Fox agreed to pay |
| 1:02.0 | Dominion voting systems $787.5 million. Dominion has been accusing Fox of letting its own hosts and |
| 1:09.6 | guests amplify the message that the voting machine company helped rig the outcome of the |
| 1:13.9 | presidential election in favor of President Biden. Various investigations and courts have shown |
| 1:18.6 | that wasn't true, so Dominion sued for defamation. The last couple of years, Fox has been saying its |
| 1:24.2 | broadcast should be protected by the First Amendment, but yesterday it says it's settled to allow |
| 1:28.9 | the country to move forward from these issues. On top of the money, Fox acknowledged it aired |
| 1:33.9 | false information about Dominion, but says it's still committed to quote the highest journalistic |
| 1:38.5 | standards. Even though the case did not go to trial, Dominion says it did what it sought out to do. |
| 1:43.6 | Make sure lies have consequences. Now Fox faces a separate $2.7 billion lawsuit from another |
| 1:49.9 | voting machine company called Smartmatic USA that's making similar claims. And once again, Fox is |
| 1:55.6 | fighting against the allegations to be continued. An American journalist who was arrested in Russia |
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