“On May 10, in order to bring the untrue story to publication, Butowsky and Zimmerman called Wheeler “to falsely inform him that they had developed an FBI source supposedly confirming” that Seth had been in contact with WikiLeaks. Id. ¶ 69. Then Zimmerman and Butowsky began to put pressure on Wheeler to go on the record as a named source for the Seth‐WikiLeaks story. On May 14, Zimmerman informed Wheeler that President Trump wanted her article published “immediately.””
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“Yet, Fox News instructed Zimmerman to keep those false statements in the article. Moreover, over the following week,
various Fox News reporters, by leveraging Wheeler’s connection to the Riches,
frequently commented on the story and spread it widely.”
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“We have no trouble concluding that—taking their allegations as true—the Riches plausibly alleged what amounted to a campaign of emotional torture. In order to publish a knowingly false article accusing Seth of leaking the DNC emails, Butowsky and Zimmerman needed a reliable source. They settled on a purportedly independent investigator, hired by the Riches. But they had to fabricate that source.”
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“Because Fox News and Zimmerman concede in their brief that the pleadings plausibly allege that the Seth‐WikiLeaks articles contained false factual statements, and because the Riches sufficiently allege actual malice, nothing more is needed at this stage.”
That’s interesting. I’ve been poking around on Foxnews since this thing blew up. Couldn’t believe my ears when one of their legal experts said what Trump did does qualify as a “bribe”. [He was speaking in terms if this case were to be tried in a court of law]
Anecdotes are not evidence and all that confirmation bias stuff, but the number of restaurants, bars, hotels, more, openly playing Fox News is down dramatically since 2016.
Joe diGenova and Victoria Toensing have been long-time pro-Trump voices on Fox News. Who knows how long they have been on Rudy Giuliani’s payroll “off the books” trying to dog up Biden dirt, but my guess is it overlaps them as supposedly impartial commentators way before diGenova blasted Fox News senior judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano as “a fool” for assessing that Trump had committed a crime during his July 25 call with the Ukrainian president.
Yeah, they’ve been all over the place. They have a handful of commentators that are actually real journalists. Chris Wallace gave one of the toughest interviews I’ve seen on the scandal with White House troll Steven Miller. Shepard Smith is also coming down hard on Trump and the White House.
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If we treat the lies at Fox News as part of a broader problem, then it may be appropriate to look beyond Fox in this thread. Let me tell you about an experiment I just did inadvertantly.
Are you as struck as I am by the contrast? With the exact same query string? The TOP hit at Bing was rushlimbaugh, followed by foxnews. I didn’t click on the Youtubes, but navalawaz was a 2017(!) article concluding “No crime.”
(* - Why I needed to switch to Bing: Google doesn’t load the link you click on; it instead loads a Google tracking site which eventually transfers to your request. My Internet connection suffers severe flaws, and all-too-often I cannot get past the Google tracking URL. Hence my switch to Bing.)
It basically opens a new environment with no cookies at all (that is, it will pretend to save them, but will not once the window is closed). Existing cookies will also not show up in the new environment, which should prevent new searches from having access to previous ones.
American corporate state media outlets are what they are post the Clinton FCC deregulation. Back in the 1980s there were 50 some odd companies on the american media landscape, that’s now down to a half dozen multinational corporations who preside over ~90% of the information americans are exposed to.
Let me know if you EVER see any of them oppose endless war.
Meet the guy who pioneered mass psychological manipulation via the media:
I realize slogging through 2400 posts that already address your both sides are the same bullshit might be too much to ask, but possibly you might not reply authoritatively to the original post that was made 2400 posts ago if you choose not to.
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