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Media Matters has obtained a slide deck that Dominion lawyers used at a March 28 hearing in the Fox defamation lawsuit.

I'll be sharing some takeaways here.
In an email, Fox CEO Suzanne Scott responds to Fox's Eric Shawn fact-checking a Trump falsehood: "This has to stop now... this is bad business... the audience is furious and we are just feeding them material."
Here's a Maria Bartiromo email from November 7 in which she says that "We have to go to a full on war. They have used all systems to defraud." And adds that "Jared says he doesn't want to hear about any conspiracy theory."
"Raw notes" from a November 7, 2020, pre-interview with Kevin McCarthy for Bartiromo's show have him saying there was no "mass cheat" in the 2020 election
Dominion responds to Fox saying Tucker Carlson "respected" Sidney Powell with texts in which he calls her a "crazy person" and various slurs.
On November 13, Fox "Brain Room" employee Leonard Balducci circulated fact-checks from Dominion and the AP debunking various claims about the company. Fox "Brain Room" communication highlighting DominiFox "brain room" email highlighting fact-checks.
Suzanne Scott, November 19, 2020 email: "I can't keep defending these reporters who don't understand our viewers and how to handle stories... We lost 25k subs from FOX NATION." Slide from Dominion hearing dek.
Tucker Carlson's team discussing an upcoming interview with Mike Lindell -- "He's definitely crazy" but "has bailed us out loads of times when no one else would" with ads. Dominion slide from Fox hearing dek.
Here's a November 20, 2020 email from Jeanine Pirro's executive producer to Fox executives saying that a pre-taped Pirro monologue "is rife w conspiracy theories and bs and is yet another example why this woman should never be on live television." Dominion slide from Fox hearing.
Fox subsequently promoted Pirro, making her a co-host of the LIVE panel show The Five. mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-p…
Fox did an internal review of that Pirro monologue and concluded that parts of it were incorrect -- but they ended up airing it anyway! Slide from Dominion dek.Screengrab from Washington Post.
That's it for now.
March 21 not March 28, my mistake.
This is still true, and it's why Fox can never, ever fully quit Trump. Dominion slide.Dominion slide.

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Hello.

We've got another Dominion slide deck from its March 21 hearing.

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