Fox on Trial: Fox News Won’t Apologize—Or Change

Inside the Hive

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🗓️ 20 April 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Dominion won an eye-popping $787.5 million settlement this week, but Fox also notched a major victory in keeping the Murdochs, its top executives, and stars like Tucker Carlson off the witness stand. On the latest episode of Inside the Hive, host Brian Stelter talks to Vanity Fair special correspondent Molly Jong-Fast and Hive editor Michael Calderone about the fallout from the payout, the future of the network, and how the public is losing out in the trial's abrupt end. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey there, welcome to Vanity Fair's Special Coverage, Fox On Trial, or Fox No Longer
0:08.1	On Trial.
0:09.1	I'm Brian Stalter, and yes, this week's show is all about the settlement.
0:13.9	We can now put a dollar figure on what it cost Fox News to broadcast all those lies
0:19.2	in about the 2020 election.
0:21.4	It's $787.5 million, being paid out to Dominion Voting Systems.
0:28.9	That is the largest defamation settlement ever reported for any media company in the
0:33.3	United States.
0:34.3	But the cost to Fox goes far beyond the money.
0:38.0	And today we're going to break that down.
0:40.1	Here in the room with me, a Vanity Fair Special Correspondent Molly John Fast, also the host
0:44.0	of the Fast Politics Podcast, welcome Molly.
0:46.9	Thank you.
0:47.9	Thanks Brian.
0:48.9	And my boss, Michael Calderon, the editor of Vanity Fair's The Hive.
0:52.4	Welcome Michael.
0:53.4	Thank you so much for being here.
0:54.6	I belatedly filed my column.
0:56.6	Do you just now?
0:57.6	My head is spinning with thoughts about this.
1:00.0	Well, here's the thing.
1:01.0	This is not over yet.
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