I would be so happy if that was true, Phil Hartman was a national treasure and he met his end in such a tragic and bizarre way.
Why couldn’t Tucker have been taken instead of Phil?
Split the difference:
“Lying entertainers”
They’re not really very entertaining, either.
Fox Disinformation Center.
Which does not even compare to the bizarre and frightening death of director Alan Pakula but 6 months later.
I am so sorry – I told a Fox.
This is going to require we revisit “crazy like a Fox.”
I’d like to see a really rude, annoying neon sign over their commentators’ heads that flashes, “Lying!! Lying!! Lying!!” every time one of them was talking.
Because, you know, that sign would basically blink non-stop.
If Galaxy Quest was released today, it would be considered a “little too on the nose” allegory of Fox News and their viewers.
I was volunteering at the library today, and every Monday for now, there’s a group of volunteers who are doing taxes for free for qualified people. There was a borderline-elderly woman walking around while she waited her turn (who, FWIW, smelled like urine) talking to everyone about, in short, Hunter Biden’s laptop and his links to Ukraine, and how she learned about this on Fox.
I kept my mouth shut, and not just because of the way she smelled.
So how long until Fox is reporting “Judge rules in favor of Fox, denies that we acted with malice!”?
And do plaintiffs typically suggest an amount of punitive damages? If I were a juror, and wished to “deter the defendant or others from similar behavior”, I’d want to set the amount of punitive damages at the total value of the ad time sold in the shows that repeated the lies… but that’s a number I don’t know, and I don’t think juries are allowed to do outside research on such things. But it’s something that Dominion’s lawyers could easily have researched.
If I were on the jury, I’d set the award at the Market Cap of Fox news; 17.10 Billion.
No more. No less.
IANAL, but I asked my buddy Google. From what I can tell, a plaintiff can ask for punitive damages, and in so doing they would argue for why they are warranted (showing evidence of malice, direct harm, disregard for the law, acting recklessly) but the actual amount is reached through a calculation done by the courts.
Also, it seems that punitive damages are rare; they are awarded only about 5% of the time. So when you hear of them in a case (like the Alex Jones lawsuits) you know something pretty egregious happened.
Exxon dragged their tanker through the court system, first being hit with $5B in punitive damages, then getting it knocked down to $4B, then bouncing it around until it finally came out at half a billion. I guess they had a good legal team (and judges holding significant stock shares in the company).
I’d be satisfied if they had to announce after each story, “What I have just said might or might not be true but in either case was designed to get you riled up and make poor life choices.”
Former FOX producer Abby Grossberg is suing FOX, claiming that they pressured her into taking the fall over the dominion lies.
Is it possible for both sides of a court case to somehow lose? Because there definitely should be no winners here. I find it disgusting that she still cannot admit to promulgating lies, and that she claims, ludicrously, that it took her a long while to “draw the dots” between her shows and what happened on Jan 6th.
Before, as well. “I am about to spew some incendiary bullshit designed to trigger you,” or something to that effect. But require them to clearly say “bullshit”, not some euphemism or abbreviation.
The thing is that no matter what disclaimers they aired, their viewers would just say “They’re only saying that because the woke libtards are forcing them to. But I know that they’re really speaking the truth, because I’m too smart to be fooled!”
Horse Hockey!
So how did Fox cover today’s proceedings, I wonder? I never watch it, but I’m curious if anyone checked.
I for one have not.