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“It is not Red or Blue, it is Green”
Is that any way to run a news operation?
The above quote comes from News Corp. Executive Chairman Rupert Murdoch. Murdoch made the statement during his testimony in the Dominion Voting Systems defamation lawsuit against Fox News. The quote was in response to why Murdoch didn’t rein in news anchors who were knowingly spreading false information about the 2020 Presidential election.
Various Fox anchors have ben deposed in the trial and many have testified that the notion that the 2020 Presidential election was stolen is baseless.
A survey of how Fox News anchors really felt about the idea of a stolen election.
Sean Hannity: “did not believe it for one second.”
Tucker Carlson: When talking about some claims made by Sydney Powell regarding voter fraud documents said she was “lying.”
Other Fox News personnel took heat for calling out “The Big Lie” as being a fraud.
Murdoch said he could have done more to stem the tide of misinformation but didn’t.
Questions for Fox News
Can Fox News really be called a “news” organization if it knowingly promoted a dangerous false narrative?
