With the beginning of the Dominional defamation trial, the consequences of Fox News are looming on the horizon

In early December, Scott Angrily When a Fox correspondent fulfilled one of the conspiracy claims in Trump on the air, and he told another executive in an email, “this should stop now.”

“This is bad to work,” she added.

In other contacts, the court documents say, executive officials talked about the need to “overlap in the case” and said they were cautious about “urination[ing] Be off viewers. ”

Dominion says her lawyers have sent Fox more than 3,600 email messages trying to correct Fox reports on this case. The company has set 20 specific data from Fox Broadcasts between November 8, 2020 and January 26, 2021, which it says is legally similar.

Davis has already said that the evidence in the case “shows that it is clear that none of the phrases related to sovereignty about the 2020 elections is correct.”

Although the strong Dominion issue may seem, the constitution and the precedent of the Supreme Court make it difficult to prove defamation by the news port. The tape is high. Dominion will need to prove the “actual malice”, which means that Fox either knows what was broadcasting it was a mistake or behaved with a reckless ignorance of the truth.

For their part, Fox’s lawyers argued in the Dominion case that the first amendment was protecting them and that the hosts were simply submitting worthy of publication that others – Trump and his allies.

“The Dominional lawsuit is a political crusade in search of financial leaders, but the real cost will be proud of the rights of the first amendment,” Fox said in a statement to Hofpost. “While Dominion has paid unrealistic and misleading information to generate newspaper headlines, Fox News is still fixed in protecting the rights of free press, given the judgment on Dominion and their owners of their shares, it will have severe consequences for the entire profession of journalism.”

The experiment is expected to last about six weeks.

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