Mod: Apparently Fox News could be facing many thousands of lawsuits for parroting Trump's many lies about the COVID-19 epidemic. Fake news is about to have its very real bloody day in court.
Fox Terrified They Might Be Sued Out of Existence By Families of the Dead — Those Who Heard ‘Hoax’(
Political Flarelink):
Vanity Fair’s invaluable
Gabriel Sherman, who seems to specialize in breaking down
Fox News and all its issues (which someone could write, and perhaps should write, a doctoral dissertation upon), told
Joy Reid of
MSNBC (another invaluable reporter) that
Fox is terrified that they’ll get sued over their original coverage of
Covid-19 as a hoax.
We have some of the transcripts from
The Intellectualist:
Joy Reid:
We saw Trish Regan, who had a show on Fox Business, come out and essentially just label it all a fraud. She’s now no longer there … You’ve had Fox anchors who are going, or as likely as anyone who is on this panel to know someone who gets sick with COVID-19. It’s interesting to have to watch them have to confront reality … They can’t cover for Trump on this .. How are they handling it?And now
Gabriele drops the bomb:
When I’ve been talking to Fox insiders over the last few days, there’s a real concern inside the network that their early downplaying of the coronavirus actually exposes Fox News to potential legal action by viewers who maybe were misled and actually have died from this. I’ve heard Trish Regan’s being taken off the air is, you know, reflective of this concern that Fox News is in big trouble by downplaying this virus and The New York Times reported days ago that the Murdoch family was privately taking the coronavirus seriously. The Murdochs, of course, own Fox News. So, they were taken personal steps to protect themselves while anchors like Trish Regan and Sean Hannity were telling viewers that it’s a hoax and putting themselves in potentially mortal danger. So I think this is a case where Fox’s coverage, if it actually winds up being proved that people died because of it, this is a new terrain in terms of Fox being possibly held liable for their actions.![]() |
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So, if you had the perfect early plaintiff, who watched
Fox News religiously and did something stupid because “this is all
Democratic bullshit because I heard,” and they had proof that this was all done to help
Trump or something to that effect, well …
Then the amount of money could be near limitless. Because when one is dealing with recklessness or intentional behaviors, courts allow for “
punitive damages,” which are damages that have nothing to do with the plaintiff’s loss. They are damages made to punish an entity so as not to do it again. And an entity with as much money as
Fox, and a family like the
Murdochs, it would take one hell of a lot of money to “punish”
Fox into improving their behavior. A LOT of money.
Poll: Biden leads Trump by 10 points as economic pessimism grows(
The Hilllink): Former
Vice President Joe Biden leads
President Trump by 10 points nationally in a new poll, bolstered by an advantage with independents. The poll also shows pessimism about the economy growing, a factor that could help
Biden and hurt
Trump in the poll.
The latest
Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll finds
Biden getting 55 percent support, versus 45 percent for
Trump.
Biden has 96 percent support from
Democrats, while
Trump has 89 percent support from
Republicans.
Independents break for
Biden by a 54 to 46 percent margin.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who has yet to drop out of the race for the
Democratic presidential nomination, also leads
Trump, winning 53 percent to
Trump’s 47 percent.
However,
Biden has a near-insurmountable lead in delegates over
Sanders.
Biden leads
Sanders among
Democrats nationally by 27 points, 58 to 31 percent.
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