Fake News

The Daily Beast reports: According to nine Fox News staffers and insiders, the pre-trial filings in Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News further impugn and sully the reputation of the network’s “straight news” journalists, especially since they show Fox was “operating out of fear” over losing viewers to smaller right-wing competitors following its Decision Desk’s early …

NBC News reports: Jan. 5, Fox Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch tapped an email out on his iPhone: Maybe our top talent needs to take a stand. “It’s been suggested our primetime three should independently or together say something like ‘the election is over and Joe Biden won. We are all disappointed by it happened. We love America and have to …

Politico reports: The White House joined in widespread condemnation of Fox News star Tucker Carlson on Wednesday, singling out the prime-time ratings king for his misleading portrayal of the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021. In comments shared first with POLITICO, the White House joined Republican Senate leaders and Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger, who a day earlier assailed …

“You have Mitch McConnell complaining about this, I recall. Let’s see here. So, Mitch McConnell is very disturbed by this. Well, if you ask me, Mitch McConnell is very disturbed. He’s a fraud, a phony and a fool. Well, somebody let down the security at that building. I don’t know if it was the chief law enforcement official there, but …

Media Matters reports: New revelations from a recent court filing in Dominion Voting Systems’ ongoing defamation lawsuit against Fox News revealed Tucker Carlson’s true opinion about former President Donald Trump’s decision to not attend the 2021 inauguration of Joe Biden: “so destructive.” Discussing the decision with an anonymous person in November 2020, Carlson admitted in a written message that Trump’s …

Deadline reports: A huge release of partially redacted text messages, emails and deposition transcripts that dropped Tuesday in the Dominion vs. Fox litigation sheds further light on the scramble among Fox News personalities and Fox Corp. executives. In one email that Rupert Murdoch sent to Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott on Jan. 21, 2021, he wrote, “Big morning with …

Axios reports: Fox News host Tucker Carlson expressed an intense dislike of former President Trump post-2020 election text messages, according to new court filings from Dominion Voting Systems submitted in its lawsuit against the news outlet. “We are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights. I truly can’t wait,” Carlson allegedly said in one text message …

The Hill reports: “We repeatedly requested that any clips be shown to us first for a security review,” Capitol Police told The Hill on Monday. “So far we have only been given the ability to preview a single clip out of the multiple clips that aired.” The limited consultation comes after McCarthy said Capitol Police would be consulted before the …

CNN reports: Carlson aired never-before-seen surveillance footage that he said showed Capitol police officer Brian Sicknick, who died one day after the January 6 insurrection. Carlson said he focused on this because Democrats have turned Sicknick into a “prop” and a “martyr” by overstating the links between his death and the insurrection. The video shows Sicknick in the crypt of …

Mediaite reports: Tucker Carlson attempted to rewrite the history of the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot by insisting what actually happened was not what we all saw with our own eyes. On Monday, the Fox News host aired some of the more than 40,000 hours of surveillance video his show was given access to by Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA). Four …

The New York Times reports: On Monday, Nov. 16, 2020, Suzanne Scott, the chief executive of Fox News Media, and Jay Wallace, the network’s president, convened a Zoom meeting for an extraordinary discussion with an unusual goal, according to a recording of the call reviewed by The New York Times: How to keep from angering the network’s conservative audience again …

First, a CPAC quote from Trump: We’re trying to get the Pulitzer Prize taken away. They got Pulitzer prizes, we’re suing. You know what the prize says, for its concise and accurate reporting on the Russia Russia Russia event. And they have it actually, totally wrong. Actually, Mark Levin should get a prize and Gregg Jarrett, Gregg Jarrett should get …

NBC News reports: A progressive group wants the Federal Election Commission to investigate Fox Corp. and former President Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign for breaking campaign finance laws. On Friday, End Citizens United PAC filed a complaint with the FEC arguing that Fox Corp. chair Rupert Murdoch broke the law when he shared Joe Biden’s campaign ad and debate strategy with …

Media Matters has the transcript: There was a piece in the Washington compost this morning by Aaron Blake. Aaron Blake in my view is a fraud and a phony. I guess that’s why he works for the Washington compost. And in this piece entitled “Rupert Murdoch’s big admission about Fox News” — now, I’m not gonna go into all this. …

“You know what is remarkable about all of this, and I don’t mean in a good way, is how the president of the United States responded to your testimony that millions of people across the country with our hearts, with our spirits, who were right there with you, watched. “President Biden for a moment discussed your family’s tragedy. He laughed …

CNN’s Oliver Darcy writes in his newsletter: The stunning levels of misconduct exposed in recent weeks raise questions about the future of Suzanne Scott, the embattled chief executive of Fox News. Will she be Murdoch’s sacrificial lamb? The Murdochs “are certainly setting Suzanne Scott up to take the fall for this,” Ben Smith, the Semafor editor-in-chief told me. “They’re leading …

“I want to challenge people watching tonight who don’t wear red hats, don’t consider themselves MAGA, don’t consider themselves very strong political people. I want to ask yourself how many times you’ve been lied to, not just by this government, but how many times have you been lied to by the people whose job it is to tell you the …

“They don’t care about the people of Pennsylvania where Fetterman is supposed to be representing. They care about keeping a lid on this scandal. And that’s what this is. This is a giant scandal. “The Democrats basically crippled this man for power. They cheated him out of his recovery, missed every sign that he was struggling, ignored every sign, lied …

Mediaite reports: Rupert Murdoch testified under oath that Fox News promoted election denialism on air, despite a raft of evidence revealing that many hosts privately knew the claims made by then-President Donald Trump and his surrogates to be false. Stunning new details emerged in more court documents released Monday afternoon in Dominion Voting System’s defamation lawsuit against Fox News. As …

Playbook reports: Fox News rejected an ad from the progressive group MoveOn that would have highlighted the recent revelations from Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation lawsuit, addressing Fox viewers directly. Quoting messages from Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham, the spot says, “Texts show they lied to you about the 2020 election for profit.” MoveOn says they wanted to run it nationally …