Whether Dominion Voting Systems wins its defamation lawsuit against Fox Corporation or not, the latter's reputation as a journalistic organization has taken a fatal hit.
Recent revelations of e-mail exchanges between Fox hosts such as Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham show they, along with Rupert Murdoch and other executives were unabashedly cheerleading GOP candidates and pushing the big lie that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump even though they privately acknowledged Joe Biden had won the election fairly.
It seems to me Faux News will lose three ways in coming months. They will almost surely lose the lawsuit and be forced to pay over a billion dollars to Dominion. Further, with their reputation as an honest purveyor of facts in tatters, they will lose at least part of their audience who will abandon them in favor of more mainstream media outlets. Meanwhile, the MAGA diehards will quit Fox in disgust and move their eyes to hardcore outlets like Newsmax and OAN.
I've discounted Faux News before, but this time it feels different.
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