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Hello, media consumers.

Welcome to Pressbox Final Edition, Brian Curtis of The Ringer Here Along with producer

Erica Servantes.

Thursday is a big day on the media beat because it's the first day of jury selection in the

$1.8 billion defamation lawsuit the Dominion voting systems has brought against Fox News.

And I thought we needed an expert briefing on three things.

Then what this case is all about.

Two, how likely it is that Fox News will lose and what they stand to lose if they do.

And three, what we learn from reading Rupert Murdoch and Tucker Carlson's emails.

My number one draft pick to talk about all of the above is David Fulkenflick, who is

NPR's media correspondent, a Murdoch biographer and one of the very best reporters on the

media beat.

We dove headfirst into the Fox trial after first talking about why David's employer is,

as they say, taking a break from Twitter.

Here's David Fulkenflick.

All right, David.

Yesterday you got to do a fun thing that media reporters get to do once in a while,

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