How Has Fox News Affected Your Life?

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Politics, News, News Commentary

4.6 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Fox News Chairman Rupert Murdoch did not believe that Dominion Voting Systems stole the 2020 presidential election from Donald Trump, according to testimony released Tuesday. The evidence is part of the record in Dominion's $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit, set for trial in April, arguing that Fox executives and hosts deliberately spread the falsehood that Dominion's electronic machines manipulated the vote count. We’ll talk about the case and look at the impact Fox News has had on our culture — and democracy. And we’ll hear from you: How has Fox News affected you, your views and your relationships? Guests: Jeremy W. Peters, reporter covering the media and its intersection with politics, culture and law, The New York Times; author, "Insurgency: How Republicans Lost Their Party and Got Everything They Ever Wanted" Sarah Ellison, reporter covering media and its intersection with politics and technology, The Washington Post Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:54.7	From KQED. From KQBD in San Francisco, this is Forum.
1:14.6	I'm Ena Kim.
1:15.6	New emails, texts, and depositions released this week in Dominion Voting System's
1:19.6	billion-dollar lawsuit against Fox News provide even more evidence that the network's hosts
1:24.6	and executives did not believe former President Donald
1:27.6	Trump's claims of a stolen 2020 election or that there was massive voter fraud tied to
1:32.2	Dominion. Tucker Carlson wrote to his colleagues in November 2020, The Whole Thing Seems
1:37.2	insane to me. Yet, Carlson and others promoted the claims on air anyway. We'll look at what
1:43.2	this means for the defamation case, for Fox News, and for media's obligation
1:48.1	to the truth.
1:49.8	Join us.
1:59.9	Welcome to Forum. I'm Mina Kim. In the weeks after the 2020 election, Fox News amplified President Trump's and his allies' claims of a stolen election to its viewership of millions, including their claims that shady and vulnerable voting machines by Dominion played a role in Trump's loss.
2:18.8	Here's Sean Hannity in November of 2020.
2:21.9	Nobody liked Dominion voting systems. Nobody. Why we would use a system that everybody agreed
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