During legal scrutinizing this week, new and rather epic bombshells are being revealed. Today, emails originating from within the Fox News Network show CEO’s warning that fact-checking the former U.S. President Donald Trump is “bad business”. What is meant by this?
According to a report published via Mediaite.com, Dominion Voting Systems made slides that were used during this Tuesday, March 28th, court hearing public on Wednesday, March 29th. These offered yet further details regarding the response from higher-ups at Fox News to then U.S. President Donald Trump’s outlandish claims of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election. Dominion is currently suing Fox News for $1.6 billion, alleging defamation.
One newly un-redacted email from Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott to Executive Vice President of Primetime Programming Meade Cooper showed Scott insisting Fox News journalists stop fact-checking Trump claims. Fox News anchor Eric Shawn on multiple occasions pushed back Trump’s false claims on air.
The email from December 2nd, 2020 with a subject line “Re: Fox News’ Eric Shawn Fact-Checks Trump ‘Dump’ Claims” read:
I’m going to address this with you and Jay and Lowell tomorrow.
This is bad business and there clearly is a lack of understanding what is happening in these shows.
The audience is furious and we are just feeding them material.
Bad for business.
