The Fox News Settlement — Journalism 101

At a time when public regard for the press writ large is at some kind of a nadir, the settlement in Dominion Voting Systems’ lawsuit could prove to be the beginning of a turn for the better in American journalism.

AP/Mary Altaffer, file
Rupert Murdoch on October 30, 2019, at New York. AP/Mary Altaffer, file

It wouldn’t surprise us if the settlement of the libel case brought against Fox News by Dominion Voting Systems proves to be the beginning of a turn for the better in American journalism. The claim against Fox News was, at $1.6 billion, enormous. Even the three quarters of a billion spondulix for which they settled, though, has to be a sobering figure, enough to gain the attention of the other giants of journalism.

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