Fox News vs. Dominion voting machines

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It;s pretty safe to assume that virtually all readers of the Blank Slate publications— as well as a considerable majority of adult Americans on Long Island and in other parts of the country— have heard and/or read more than enough about the scandal that has been billowing around Fox News, its most prominent anchors, and even the founder and Chairman of the Board, Rupert Murdoch. Of course, most of us who paid attention to the fow of news following the

2020 national elections, and the subsequent assault on the Capitol Building in Washington have been well aware that the claims by Ex-President Trump that the elections had been “stolen,” that the Dominion Voting Machines had been “rigged” to switch votes from Trump to Biden, and that Joseph R. Biden was not the legitimately elected president were outrageous falsehoods — in other words, a colossal lie.

But there was a consistent drum- beat emanating from Fox News and reinforcing those lies— a reminder of a quotation from Josef Goebbels, the Hitlerian propaganda minister, who stated that “if you tell a lie often enough, it becomes the truth.” It seemed to many of us who were not Fox devotees that the nation might be moving along that path.

It all changed, however, as a result of the widely publicized libel suit fled by Dominion against Fox News, seeking $1.6 billion in damages to the compa- ny’s reputation as a manufacturer of reliable, accurate tabulators of ballots cast. The case seemed to be slogging along below the radar, attracting little or no attention, until the bombshells recently began exploding: somehow Dominion or its attorneys obtained the texts of emails and text messages among some of those key anchors, demonstrating convincingly that they all knew very well that their claims of rigged elections were false and fraudulent, and that they had been laughing among themselves about it.

And, to put icing on the cake, Chairman Murdoch admitted, in testimony under oath, that he had known that his network was promulgating lies in order to sustain the loyalty of its “true believers” to avoid antagonizing them, losing audience numbers, and perhaps seeing its publicly traded, NYSE-listed stock decline.

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