Fox Fallout & Lemon’s Lumps

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Good evening, I’m Dylan Byers.

Welcome back to In The Room, my biweekly private email on the inner workings of the American media industry. Tonight, some insights on the Fox News defamation case, and Chris Licht’s latest headache.

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Fox Fallout & Lemon’s Lumps

News and notes on the two biggest stories in cable news: the messy fallout at Fox News from the discovery in the Dominion case, and Don Lemon’s lapse.

DYLAN BYERS

For anyone not yet inured to the perfidies of the Fox News Channel—the partisan shilling, the conspiracy peddling, the fear-mongering, etcetera—the revelations contained in this week’s Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit against the network may have felt colossal. Contained in a nearly 200-page suit were troves of evidence—emails, texts, etcetera—indicating that the network’s top executives, producers, and talent knew their guests were hawking false claims about election fraud, but that they let them hawk away regardless, all in the interest, according to Dominion’s lawsuit, of maintaining Fox News’ position as the most preeminent and lucrative conservative media operation in the business.

Through discovery, Dominion has succeeded in putting the apparent hypocrisy of Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham et al. on the record, but their attempt to force...

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