Lachlan Murdoch

Dominion wants to put Rupert Murdoch and his son Lachlan Murdoch on the witness stand at next month's expected defamation trial against Fox News, ...

The filings unearthed a trove of communications between network executives and its most popular hosts, revealing that the right-wing talk channel, was willing to lie to its viewers. “I would have liked us to be stronger in denouncing it, in hindsight,” he added. Davis told both sides that “I need to be educated” on their arguments for summary judgment, the primary purpose of Tuesday’s hearing. “I’m not the Supreme Court, so I don’t have a clock up here, and I’m not going to cut you off… Dominion is suing Fox News over the right-wing channel’s airing of false claims of election fraud around the 2020 presidential election. The court filings have offered the most vivid picture to date of the chaos that transpired behind the scenes at Fox News after Trump lost the election. Sullivan, legal experts told CNN that Dominion’s case appeared unusually strong. Ditto with Rudy [Giuliani].” It claims Dominion hasn’t shown anything strong enough to overcome the high bar that the First Amendment provides, protecting good-faith journalists from speech-chilling defamation lawsuits. Fox News and its parent company, Fox Corporation, are resisting these efforts, which also include an attempt to compel testimony from Fox Corporation chief legal officer Viet Dinh and board member Paul Ryan, the former House speaker. No one will work with her. Don’t be stressed that I’ll cut you off on a time basis.”