2023-04-19 12:41:57
The out-of-court settlement spares Rupert Murdoch, as well as several star Fox News commentators, from having to testify under oath. SHANNON STAPLETON / REUTERS
DECRYPTION – The economic and ideological model of Rupert Murdoch’s channel is preserved.
Even in the United States, a country of great tolerance of extreme opinions, the press organs are not free to tell anything. Even to retain an audience politically traumatized by the defeat of an adored candidate, in this case Donald Trump beaten on November 3, 2020 by Joe Biden.
Dominion Voting Systems believes it has largely won its battle with Fox News. The continuous news channel of Rupert Murdoch’s group (Fox Corp.) finally agreed on Tuesday to pay Dominion Voting Systems $787.5 million to end a civil defamation lawsuit in a Delaware court. The sum represents just over twice the profits of the entire Fox Group in the fourth quarter of 2022.
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The humiliation of Rupert Murdoch and his collaborators, however, is less strong than the very correct New York Times, sworn enemy of the Murdoch family, would have liked it. Fox News certainly pays more than half of the damages demanded by Dominion Voting Systems…
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