04-25-2023, 03:04 PM
(04-25-2023, 02:36 PM)basballguy Wrote: Why does everyone forget the lefts beloved WaPo, CNN (not beloved), and NBC all got sued for defamation and also settled out of court.
The reason why it is different is b/c Fox's news anchors and Sr. MGt knowingly propagated false information such as Trump's Big lie to the public and then in private conversation amongst themselves admitted to doing just that. Fox's news anchors in private emails and texts admitted Trump, Rudy, Sydney Powell, et al were all full of crap and they didn't believe a word of it, but these anchors went ahead and promoted the lies as instructed by Sr. management. This is all on the record in sworn depositions with Fox's news anchors under oath subject to the penalty of perjury.
Also, there is the issue of Summary Judgement in which a judge found Fox liable for knowingly propagating falsehoods about Dominion as to switching votes in favor of President Biden.
So to answer your question, it comes down to knowingly doing something that you know is patently false and then admitting to doing it. Fox did all the above as evidenced in the sworn depositions. These other companies as in the case of CNN offered a defamatory opinion as to someone's character but didn't offer it as fact when they knew without a doubt it wasn't as in the case with Fox.
