Dominion v Fox is an extraordinary case. It sheds light on Fox’s fractious relationship with the politician beloved by many of its viewers, Donald Trump
explained his success on conservative talk radio in the early 1990s. Educated types derided his listeners—religious, working-class people—but he affirmed them and made things devilishly fun. The charge that he delivered “marching orders” to “mind-numbed robots” had it all wrong, said Limbaugh, who died in 2021. Rather he listened to his listeners, and voiced their convictions. It was wonderful for ratings. “This is a business!”, he once exclaimed.
Fox’s trouble started on election night. To Mr Trump’s dismay it was the first outlet to call Arizona, a swing state, for Mr Biden . Later several Fox reporters challenged Mr Trump’s claims that there had been widespread voter fraud. The treatment infuriated the outgoing president, who urged his supporters to switch to Newsmax and One America News, two upstart, fringe networks. That day the share price of Fox News’s parent company, Fox Corporation, shed 6%.
Meanwhile Mr Trump’s conspiracist lawyers, Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani, sat for chummy, credulous interviews with Fox hosts. They said that Dominion was owned by a Venezuelan company founded to rig elections for Hugo Chávez, and that the firm paid officials to alter votes. Both claims were made up. Privately people at the network called Ms Powell and Mr Giuliani kooks, full of “crazy stuff”. But the audience ate it up.
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