Dwain Northey (Gen X)

Five takeaways from the Fox News-Dominion settlement

The Dominion -v- Fox settlement is a huge letdown. Financially it is a big win for Dominion but for Murdock and Fox the $787.5 million settlement will do nothing to curb their misinformation campaign. Hopefully the next lawsuit by Smartmatic, which is actually a stronger case, will produce more than just a monetary slap on the wrist for Fox (so called) News.

The prime time talking heads and the owner of the company need to be trotted in front of a jury and deposed for the world to see them for the hypocrites that they are. This settlement will only let them slip right back into the same old habits as before. I am sure that the judgement from the judge that Fox and its spokespeople were in fact lying to their audience will never be utter on Fox so their loyal minion will never know the truth.

Just like the monster they created DJT, Fox will spin the settlement as liberal bias and the settlement wasn’t because of wrongdoing but the right thing for the company because they weren’t going to get a fair trial. That is exactly the condescending tone Tucker will pose his inevitable ‘question/misrepresentation)’, “We all know that the liberals have loaded the courts… and we all know that the election was rigged… Those are the facts we know, Fox had to settle that way you can still hear the truth.”

Dominion should have demanded along with the monetary settlement that a disclaimer be shown at the bottom of the screen during all Fox prime time broadcasts the states (The programs you are currently watching are opinion and the ‘facts’ stated have not been checked or verified as being truthful.” I don’t know if that would change much because I can’t verify how many Fox viewers can read and since I don’t have that information, I won’t state any numbers.

Murdock is reportedly worth $12.5 billion. The Dominion settlement is less than 10% of his personal wealth not to include the assets of the Fox (News) network. This minor monetary inconvenience won’t do a damn thing and honestly, I could care less about the financial obligation I want the Fox viewers to hear out of the mouths of the talking heads they listen to that they flat out lied to them. This little hiccup will only embolden the radical right and their toadies to start and renewed holy war against the ‘Woke’ because they will spin the entire thing as unjust, that the liberals have slanted everything so now the real fight has to begin.

Those of us that don’t want to see this Republic fall need to be ready to stand up and continue to speak the truth because I know that (right) red hat mafia is only going to use this as a battle cry.