Good morning and Happy Anniversary Andrea! One makes a lot of decisions in one’s life. This one was a good one. 32 years and still going strong, through thick and thin. A potpourri of commentary today: THE LEGAL DOCKET By now, most of us are well-aware of the twin revelations about Fox News. The first is that they were clearly spreading completely fabricated stories about Dominion Voting Systems and claims it somehow manipulated the election at the direction of the Democrats and foreign interests. The settlement results in the payment by Fox of approximately 20% of its available cash and liquid assets. Second is the revelations that everyone from Rupert Murdoch on down knew of the lies regarding the election, yet continued to propound these lies, because that is what they perceived their viewers wanted to hear. As an executive at Fox noted, their audience “doesn’t want to hear about a peaceful transition.” We are in crazy-land, where purported journalists, chasing ratings, will tell people whatever they want to hear—regardless of the truth. That Fox settled for over $787MM is proof enough that Fox knows it was caught perpetrating lies on lies to keep their audience happy. Fox traded faith in our elections and putting our democracy at peril in return for more eyeballs from “good people who want to believe” (Tucker Carlson’s words).
Happy Anniversary to you both!
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