Fox settles with Dominion

On Tuesday afternoon in a Delaware courtroom, Fox made a settlement with Dominion Voting Systems for $787 million, by which process Fox will not have to answer a lot of difficult and embarrassing questions in court about their ongoing policy of intentionally lying to the American public in support of the Trump administration.

Under questioning from a Dominion lawyer, Fox creator Rupert Murdoch testified that he thought everything about the election was on the "up-and-up" and doubted the rigging claims from the very beginning, according to Dominion's filing.

Murdoch internally described the election-rigging claims as "really crazy" and "damaging" but declined to wield his editorial power to stop them and conceded under oath that some Fox hosts nonetheless "endorsed" the baseless claims.

It's no secret that Fox has lied repeatedly about the safety of vaccines, the danger and the reality of COVID-19, the connection of Hillary Clinton to the company Uranium One, and climate change, in addition to casting doubt on the 2020 election result almost 800 times in the two weeks following the election.

Every person who watches Fox religiously, and laments the political divisions among Americans, should ask themselves how they and democracy benefit from a knowing and intentional decoupling from reality by viewing a network which traffics fantasy and lies, while disparaging the other hundreds of other media outlets around the world as “fake” news.

DANIEL STRAYER

Bonners Ferry