The OTHER Lawsuit Involving the Murdochs

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🗓️ 1 March 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Fox News is in the fight of its legal life right now. Dominion is suing Fox News for 1.6 billion dollars in damages over false claims that it helped rig the 2020 elections for President Biden. Dominion’s legal team draws a direct line from the heated rhetoric of Fox hosts to the January 6, 2021 protests that became a violent siege of the US Capitol. And that forms the basis of an entirely different defamation suit, filed roughly 10,000 miles away. This time, the suit was filed by Lachlan Murdoch against a small Australian paper for an opinion piece that implied the Murdochs had some responsibility in the events of the January 6 insurrection. Guest host David Folkenflik speaks with Lachlan Cartwright, the Editor at Large of the Daily Beast where he covers power, crime, celebrity and justice, to get a look into the lawsuits and what they mean for the future of the Fox empire.

This is a segment from our October 7th, 2022 program, So Sue Me.

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0:00.0	On this week's show, which we're working on right now, available Friday, we'll be digging
0:05.3	into the current status of Dominion Voting's lawsuit against Fox News.
0:10.5	Dominion Voting is suing Fox for defamation.
0:14.2	Over the cable channels, they describe as bogus allegations of voter fraud in the 2020 election.
0:19.0	The newest revelations alleged that Fox News stars knew full well that the conspiracy theories
0:24.5	about Dominion Voting machines were groundless, but they went on the air with them anyway.
0:29.9	There's a lot more history, though, and the future, which we'll be probing this weekend,
0:34.2	so check it out.
0:35.6	For now, however, by way of a primer of sorts, we'll replay an interview that NPR media
0:42.0	correspondent David Falkenflick did when he was filling in from the last fall.
0:47.4	It's related to the ongoing lawsuit in that Dominion's legal team draw a direct line
0:54.7	from the heated rhetoric of Fox hosts to the January 6, 2021 violent break-in at the US Capitol.
1:03.0	And that forms the basis of an entirely different defamation suit,
1:08.1	filed roughly 10,000 miles away from the scene of the crime,
1:12.2	brought not against the Murdoch's, but by a Murdoch.
1:17.2	Media boss, Lockler Murdoch, has launched defamation proceedings against the publishers of News
1:22.0	website Kraki. Murdoch's lawyers claim Kraki wrongly suggested the Fox News boss was involved
1:27.7	in the plot with Donald Trump to overturn the 2020 election result.
1:32.1	Lockler and Cartwright is the editor at large of the Daily Beast, where he covers power,
1:36.0	crime, celebrity and justice. And he says that with these two suits, we're getting a peak
1:39.8	into the future of the Fox Empire. Kraki, which is sort of a scrappy Australian
1:44.8	independent news and politics and opinion website, published an article on June 29th.
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