Fox News Scion Loses Round In Defamation Battle

The Guardian reports:

Lachlan Murdoch’s application to have parts of Crikey’s defence about Fox News’s role in the January 6 riot dismissed has failed in a pre-trial hearing in the federal court.

In August the co-chair of News Corp filed proceedings for defamation against the Australian independent news site over an article by its politics editor, Bernard Keane, headlined “Trump is a confirmed unhinged traitor. And Murdoch is his unindicted co-conspirator”.

Murdoch’s barrister, Sue Chrysanthou SC, had sought to have Crikey’s inclusion in its defence of background facts about Fox News’s coverage of the US election struck out on the grounds they are irrelevant, embarrassing and will waste time at the trial.

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