Historical Fictions

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🗓️ 3 March 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

A billion dollar defamation lawsuit has given the public an unprecedented view into the inner workings of Fox News. On this week’s On the Media, how the network’s election falsehoods reveal the company’s commitment to profit over truth. Plus, the story of how historical fiction became the unexpected darling of the literary world. And, how a historian grapples with gaps in our historical record.

1. Andrew Prokop [@awprokop], senior politics correspondent at Vox, and David Folkenflik [@mjs_DC], media correspondent for NPR News, on the latest revelations in Dominion Voting Systems' lawsuit against Fox News. Listen.

2. OTM producer Eloise Blondiau [@eloiseblondiau] takes a deep dive into how historical fiction became a rich resource for reckoning with our past, feat: Alexander Manshel, assistant professor of English at McGill University [@xandermanshel], and novelitsts Alexander Chee [@alexanderchee] and Min Jin Lee [@minjinlee11]. Listen.

3. Tiya Miles [@TiyaMilesTAM], professor of history at Harvard University and author of All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake, on rediscovering lost histories. Listen .

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0:00.0	Dominion voting systems is suing Fox News for defamation and they have receipts.
0:06.0	The court filings reveal that behind the scenes many of the network's top stars and executives
0:11.4	derided Trump's election lies as quote, mind-blowingly nuts and quote, totally off the rails.
0:17.7	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
0:20.5	I'm Brooke Gladstone.
0:22.1	It's an old saying that journalism is the first draft of history, but when the historical
0:27.0	record is too sparse to serve us fiction steps in, places are still there.
0:32.8	If a house burns down, it's gone, but the place, the picture of it stays and not just
0:38.2	in my memory, but out there in the world.
0:41.4	Plus, a historian pieces together and enslaved woman's story with bits of tattered cloth.
0:47.5	We could just throw our hands up and say, oh well, we can't find what we need, so we can't
0:51.2	tell these stories.
0:52.7	But that would be an additional injustice on top of historical injustices.
0:57.7	After this.
0:59.7	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
1:03.9	I'm Brooke Gladstone.
1:05.6	This week we all got a peek behind the curtain at Fox News.
1:09.8	So much drama.
1:10.8	Dominion voting systems has dropped the latest bombshell and it's $1.6 billion defamation
1:16.7	suit against Fox News.
1:18.4	Post chairman Rubin Murdoch acknowledged under oath that some Fox News hosts endorsed false
1:23.7	claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election.
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