With The Start Of Dominion’s Defamation Trial, Consequences Loom For Fox News

In early December, Scott responded with anger when a Fox journalist checked one of Trump’s electoral conspiracy claims on the air, saying another framework in an email: “It must stop now.”

She added: “It’s bad for business.”

In other communications, according to court documents, the leaders spoke of the need to “ride the question” and said they were suspicious of “pissing[ing] Outside viewers. »»

Dominion says that his lawyers sent Fox employees more than 3,600 emails trying to correct Fox reports on the issue. The company identified 20 specific Fox Broadcasts declarations between November 8, 2020 and January 26, 2021 which, according to it, were legally defamatory.

Davis has already said that evidence in the case “demonstrate that it is clear that none of the Dominion declarations on the 2020 elections is true.”

Whatever the case of strong Dominion, the Constitution and the Previous of the Supreme Court make it difficult to defam the defamation by a media. The bar is high; Dominion will have to prove “real malice”, which means that Fox knew that what was disseminated was bad or act in reckless contempt for the truth.

For their part, the lawyers of Fox argued in the Dominion case that the first amendment protects them and that the hosts simply presented affirmations worthy of interest made by others – Trump and his allies.

“The Dominion trial is a political crusade looking for a financial windfall, but the real cost would be cherished with the rights of first amendment,” Fox said in a statement in Huffpost. “While Dominion pushed information out of words and misleading to generate headlines, Fox News remains firm to protect the rights of a free press, given a verdict for Dominion and its owners of investment capital would have serious consequences for the entire journalism profession.”

The trial is expected to last about six weeks.

This is a unionized version of an article originally published on HuffPost.