In his first comments since the bombshell revelations in the lawsuit brought against Fox News, CEO Lachlan Murdoch defended the cable news network. 'This case is actually not about the law, and it's not about journalism. It's really about politics.'
Lachlan Murdoch, co-chairman and chief executive officer of Fox Corp., attends the annual Sun Valley media conference in Idaho, July 11, 2019. the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit brought against Fox News by Dominion Voting Systems
“A news organization has an obligation, and it is an obligation to report news fulsomely, wholesomely and without fear or favor,” Murdoch said at a Morgan Stanley investor conference in San Francisco. “And that's what Fox News has always done, and that's what Fox News will always do. “We are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights,” primetime host Tucker Carlson texted a colleague on Jan. 4, 2021, two days before the attack on the Capitol while Congress was convening to certify Joe Biden’s victory. “I truly can’t wait.
“The very fact of those allegations was newsworthy,” the cable news giant’s attorneys wrote in a counterclaim.Private communications from Lachlan Murdoch and his father, Rupert Murdoch, Fox's chairman and founder, were also among those unsealed in court.
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