The media defamation test is at the precipice of starting in Wilmington, Delaware, in a few days.
Jury selection in the Dominion Voting Systems Monster ‘The defamation demand of $ 1.6 billion tok places all Thursday, with 300 potential jurors called to the courts. Good progress was achieved and Judge President said there were “jurors more than enough” to begin trial as scheduled on Monday.
He is there, in the seventh court, where the largest figures in Murdoch Media, accompanied by a multitude of high power lawyers, will try to set up their defense after not repeatedly convince a judge to throw the case now historical.
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Frankly, it is extraordinary to write those words. When I saw the Fox News transmission elections are after the 2020 elections, I never expected the network to be responsible in a significant way.
I have covered Fox News for a while. I have seen thousands and thousands of hours of right -wing channel programming. I have seen their hosts over the years undermine public health, make rude anti -immigrant comments, lies of pursuit and propaganda and push the theories of upset conspiracy that were reserved for the strips farthest from the right.
The network has always seemed to find a way to navigate through the controversy, only the most infernal storms it has faced. Sometimes it has emerged simply stronger and more incarnate than before.
But this time is different. This time, the normal tricks that the network becomes the time duration will not release it from problems. This time, in a court of justice, the network must present an honest argument and promoted by the facts.
Fox News is about to enter the true area not spin, where deception is strictly prohibited. Where it is not in charge. And where his senior executives such as Rupert Murdoch and Suzanne Scott and hosts such as Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity cannot simply ignore a request for comments and resort, adjust, attack “the media” in the air.
In this environment, where lies cannot be said casually and the truth cannot be distorted beyond reality so that it fits a dishonest narrative, it will be fascinating to see how it goes to the network. If audiences prior to trial are an indicator, it will be beautiful. The case has just begun and the president has already lost patience with Fox’s legal team and put them into account.
Perhaps the winds will change for Fox News when Judge Calas in the trial on Monday. But if they play as the last weeks of the court, Fox News is on a brutal walk.