Thread by @EarlOfEnough

📌I am deeply, deeply disappointed in this #DominionvFox settlement.

📌As a career journalist, I hate Murdoch, his disgusting network, and the ghouls it employs with every, single fiber of my soul. The stain they have left on my profession will never wash out.

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📌Since launching his attack on America by standing up his Fox propaganda outlet in 1996, the Australian-born Murdoch and his wretched team of cancerous carnival-barking hyenas have blown more hot air across this planet than all the stinking, coal-burning factories combined.

📌We KNOW Fox didn't believe the nuclear-grade crap they were doling out to their millions of viewers in the wake of the election. They continued anyway, though, worried they might lose an audience who they had made fat and unhappy over the decades.

📌Fox filled their plates with heaping helpings of daily, rightwing bullshit seasoned with plenty of outrage.

📌One Fox Vice President called Trump’s lies “mind blowingly nuts.” Murdoch himself called them “really crazy” and “terrible stuff.”

📌When shortly after the election, Fox briefly left the MAGA Reservation and started loudly hinting that Trump’s election-fraud claims were so disgraceful that even they wouldn’t serve them, they quickly found that their audience wasn’t much interested in a steady diet of truth.

📌Fox propaganda viewers and were already running off to whatever upstart, radical, rightwing propaganda network they could sink their dentures into.

📌Well, this was no way to run a fast-fool, propaganda outlet ...

📌Fearing a significant loss of revenue, Murdoch’s team turned on a dime and once again began eagerly cooking up and selling the raw sewage Trump and his gang of cancerous louts were spinning about the election they lost by more than seven million votes.

📌So Dominion sued the shit out of them.

📌Two years and several million dollars of litigation later ... and within inches of a trial the damn case has been settled.

📌I fervently hope there is more here than we are hearing. I need to hear this from Fox on their stinking fucking air:

📌“We apologize and beg for your forgiveness for lying to you about the 2020 Election and Dominion Voting Systems. Joe Biden handily won the election by more than seven million votes, and Dominion accurately tabulated every, single vote."

📌"We are a morally weak group of people, and simply repeated Donald Trump’s dangerous lies about the election because we were scared and didn’t want to lose you, our faithful audience. It was an abominable thing to do, and we again beg for your forgiveness ...”

📌Anything less is unsatisfactory. This is bigger than any lawsuit. It is about the protection of our Democracy, which is hanging by a thread in this country.

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📌BREAKING: Under the terms of the settlement, Fox News will not have to apologize or admit to spreading false claims on network programming.

📌Holy shit. HOW (why) did Dominion let them get away with this??????

📌Here's the whole sordid tale with some add-ons. Subscriptions are free or paid and welcome.

-Thanks, Earl
dearlstephens.substack.com/p/trial-buffoo…