The More Fox Lies - The More Democracy Dies
Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner
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4.9 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2023
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
This time Glenn discusses Fox News and their last-minute settlement with Dominion Voting Systems. Fox has agreed to pay one of the largest known defamation settlements in U.S. history. Glenn ponders: was justice actually achieved? Then he explains - Fox's troubles are not over. There are other lawsuits pending against them, like the one being brought by Smartmatic, another voting technology company, as well as a former Fox News producer and at least one Fox shareholder.
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for Justice Matters, with former Federal Prosecutor and MSNBC analyst Glenn Kirschner. |
| 0:15.2 | Fox News will pay three quarters of a billion dollars to Dominion voting systems |
| 0:20.0 | after the sides hammered out a last-minute settlement in the defamation case |
| 0:24.1 | launched against the network. Was Justice achieved? Here's Glenn. |
| 0:29.1 | So friends, the Fox Corporation settled the defamation lawsuit filed against it by Dominion |
| 0:35.9 | voting systems. Fox admitted that it broadcast election lies. Fox agreed to pay Dominion more |
| 0:43.6 | than three-quarters of a billion dollars to settle the suit. Here is the new reporting from NBC News, |
| 0:52.9 | headline, Dominion and Fox News reach $787.5 million settlement in defamation lawsuit. |
| 1:04.3 | And that article begins, Fox News and Dominion voting systems reached a $787.5 million settlement |
| 1:13.2 | agreement Tuesday afternoon, the parties announced, narrowly heading off a trial shortly after the |
| 1:20.3 | jury was sworn in. Fox has admitted to telling lies. John Polis, Dominion's CEO, |
| 1:29.8 | said at a news conference after the trial ended. |
| 1:33.2 | Quote, money is accountability. Said Steven Shackle for Jr., the attorney's schedule to give |
| 1:39.7 | opening statements for Dominion on Tuesday. Fox News in a statement said it acknowledged, |
| 1:47.8 | quote, the court's rulings, finding certain claims about Dominion to be false. |
| 1:56.1 | This settlement reflects Fox's continued commitment to the highest journalistic standards |
| 2:03.2 | the network said. We are hopeful that our decision to resolve this dispute with Dominion |
| 2:10.0 | amicably instead of the acrimony of a divisive trial allows the country to move forward from |
| 2:17.8 | these issues. Not much of an apology by Fox, is it? Not much of an acceptance of responsibility by |
| 2:26.4 | Fox, is it? You know, friends, if you're like me, this settlement may have left you feeling a |
| 2:33.0 | little deflated. We were prepared to see a trial in which all of Fox's intentional democracy |
| 2:41.9 | busting lies would be exposed. And now we won't see them. You know, after the settlement was |
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