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</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">an 2 23</font></p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">A new court filing in connection with Dominion Voting Systems' lawsuit has revealed on Fox News analyst was <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/news/just-in-bombshell-filing-shows-fox-anchor-got-reamed-over-anti-trump-coverage-from-top-down/" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">lambasted and ousted</a> for his “smug” coverage that was described as being consistently too “anti-Trump.”</span></p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">According to Mediaite, the incriminating behind-the-scenes remarks made<b> by former Fox News anchor Leland Vittert</b> are now coming to light.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">At the time, Vittert became a target of criticism for his coverage following the 2020 presidential election as former President Donald Trump continued to spin conspiracy theories to explain his election loss.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong>READ MORE: <a href="https://www.alternet.org/fox-news-knew-total-bs/" target="self" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">'Shockingly reckless': Fox News hosts spread Donald Trump’s election claims knowing they were 'total BS'</a></strong></p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Per Mediaite:</p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin-left: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">One section details the way then-Fox anchor <b>Leland Vittert — who has <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/news/gop-icon-george-will-gushes-about-biden-trip-with-sirens-wailing-in-a-war-zone-great-moment-for-all-americans-to-be-proud/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">since moved on</a> to an anchor role at NewsNation </b>— was targeted for </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">criticism in a pipeline that went from Fox Corp CEO Lachlan Murdoch to Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott right to the control room because his 'anti-Trump' coverage was deemed 'smug and condescending.'</span></p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Excerpts from the filing have also been highlighted:</p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; margin-left: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">... Lachlan continued to advise on how Fox should cover the news related to the 2020 Presidential Election. For instance, he told Scott o<b>n November 14</b> durin</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">g Fox’s coverage of a rally in support of Donald Trump that 'News guys have to be careful how they cover this rally. So far some of the side comments are slightly anti, and they shouldn’t be. The narrative should be this is a huge celebration of the 25 president.' E</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">x.627; see Ex.130, L.Murdoch 116:4-119:11.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The excerpt also noted: "Scott responded: 'Yes thanks'; and when Lachlan then criticized Leland Vittert’s coverage as '[s]mug and obnoxious,' Scott said she was 'calling now' to direct Vittert’s producer to fix the issue. Ex.627; Ex.130, L.Murdoch, 122:1-15. And indeed she did. Executive David Clark reported: 'Also got called by Jay who heard from SS that Leland was being smug and condescending. I texted him and told him to cut it out and DC EP spoke to him.' Ex.628."</p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong>READ MORE: <a href="https://www.alternet.org/donald-trump-crushing-ron-desanctimonious/" target="self" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Donald Trump accuses Fox News of hiding poll showing him 'crushing' Ron 'DeSanctimonious'</a></strong></p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"Lachlan even gave his input on the chyron that appeared at the bottom of broadcasts, telling Scott that 'the ticker at bottom of screen is all wrong. Way too wordy and long. And anti trump whenever possible</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.' Ex.629," it also reads.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Responding to the latest filing, a public relations representative for Fox News released a statement addressing the situation.</p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"Dominion’s lawsuit has always been more about what will generate headlines than what can withstand legal and factual scrutiny, as illustrated by them now being forced to slash their fanciful damages demand by more than half a billion dollars after their own expert debunked its implausible claims</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">," the statement reads. "Their summary judgment motion took an </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">extreme, unsupported view of defamation law that would prevent journalists from basic reporting </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">and their efforts to publicly smear FOX for covering and commenting on allegations by a sitting President of the United States should be recognized for what it is: </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">a blatant violation of the First Amendment."</span></p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong>READ MORE: <a href="https://www.alternet.org/mike-pence-prosecuting-donald-trump/" target="_self" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Watch: Mike Pence tells Fox News that prosecuting Donald Trump would be 'terribly divisive for the country'</a></strong></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">----</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> =</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">dominion discovery --> mma 3 23</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></p><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The <a href="https://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/D8File/2023/03/02/2023-02-27-redacted-dominions-answering-brief-in-opp-to-smj.pdf?VersionId=b5YWAL48BlcDpa1fUHXgtcWCHSx.Z5rh" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">recently released legal filing</a> in Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News shows the extent to which multiple Fox executives and anchors knew that the network was pushing lies about the 2020 presidential election results on air. The filing also <a href="https://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/D8File/2023/03/02/2023-02-27-redacted-dominions-answering-brief-in-opp-to-smj.pdf?VersionId=b5YWAL48BlcDpa1fUHXgtcWCHSx.Z5rh#page=16" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">contains</a> a startling statement by Fox Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch: that Fox News executives who knowingly allowed lies to be broadcast should potentially be fired. From the filing (emphasis in original):</font></p></div></div><blockquote class="block-quote block-quote--collapsable" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="block-quotequote" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 1.5rem;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Q. What should the consequences be when Fox News executives <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">knowingly allow lies to be broadcast? A. They should be reprimanded – They should be reprimanded, maybe got rid of. </strong>Rupert Murdoch, Chairman, Fox Corporation.</font></p></div></blockquote><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">The filings also show the extent to which Fox executives knowingly spread the conspiracy theory that Dominion Voting Systems had rigged the election at least in part in order to keep up with its <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/2020-election-lawsuits/fox-news-lied-about-dominion-and-2020-election-compete-far-right-newsmax" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">far-right media competitors</a></span>. These decisions now leave multiple Fox executives implicated as potentially worthy of firing, according to Rupert Murdoch’s own declared standard.</font></p></div></div><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rupert Murdoch</font></h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">First off, and most obvious, is <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Rupert Murdoch himself</strong>. As chairman of the Fox Corp., Murdoch could have intervened at any time and stopped the hosts and guests featured on his network from spreading lies about the 2020 election, a fact that he bluntly <a href="https://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/D8File/2023/03/02/2023-02-27-redacted-dominions-answering-brief-in-opp-to-smj.pdf?VersionId=b5YWAL48BlcDpa1fUHXgtcWCHSx.Z5rh#page=45" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">admitted</a> under questioning by Dominion’s lawyers. From the filing:</font></p></div></div><blockquote class="block-quote block-quote--collapsable" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="block-quotequote" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 1.5rem;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Q. And you could have said to Suzanne Scott or to the hosts, “Stop putting Rudy Giuliani on the air”?</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">A. I could have. But I didn't.</font></strong></p></div></blockquote><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Furthermore, Murdoch did nothing about the entreaties by <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/rupert-murdoch-knew-he-could-stop-fox-news-lies-leading-january-6-did-nothing" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Fox board member Paul Ryan</a>, a former Republican speaker of the House, who <a href="https://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/D8File/2023/03/02/2023-02-27-redacted-dominions-answering-brief-in-opp-to-smj.pdf?VersionId=b5YWAL48BlcDpa1fUHXgtcWCHSx.Z5rh#page=38" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">argued</a> according to the filing “that Fox News should not be spreading conspiracy theories.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Murdoch did, however, take direct action to get rid of a Fox executive who told the truth. On November 20, 2020, Murdoch personally signed off on firing vice president and Washington <b>managing editor Bill Sammon, who had been involved in <a href="https://www.azcentral.com/story/entertainment/media/2021/11/03/fox-news-biden-arizona-call-election-night/8544699002/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">the network’s projection</a> that President Joe Biden had won Arizona, which assured Biden his Electoral College victory. “Maybe best to let Bill go right away,” Murdoch <a href="https://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/D8File/2023/03/02/2023-02-27-redacted-dominions-answering-brief-in-opp-to-smj.pdf?VersionId=b5YWAL48BlcDpa1fUHXgtcWCHSx.Z5rh#page=162" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">said</a>, per the filing, adding that this move would “be a big message with Trump people.</b>”</font></p></div></div><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lachlan Murdoch</font></h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Rupert Murdoch’s son and Fox Corp. CEO <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Lachlan Murdoch</strong> is also clearly guilty under the standard that his father enunciated, as he helped tailor the network’s messaging to help promote lies about the election. As just one example,<b> Lachlan instructed the network to give <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/2020-election-lawsuits/fox-corp-ceo-lachlan-murdoch-insisted-network-cover-proto-jan-6-rally-more" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">positive coverage to a “Stop the Steal” rally</a> on November 14, 2020, </b>which served as a prelude to the January 6 insurrection, and to brand the <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/14/us/trump-washington-voters-rally-far-right/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">violent and far-right event</a> as a “celebration of the president.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Dominion filing <a href="https://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/D8File/2023/03/02/2023-02-27-redacted-dominions-answering-brief-in-opp-to-smj.pdf?VersionId=b5YWAL48BlcDpa1fUHXgtcWCHSx.Z5rh#page=155" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">further alleges</a> that in addition to Lachlan’s close interactions with his other key executives, “specific evidence shows he attended the November 13 afternoon editorial meeting” that preceded an episode of<b> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Lou Dobbs Tonight</span> that featured disgraced Trump-allied attorney Sidney Powell. </b>The then-Fox Business host Lou Dobbs repeatedly called Powell a “<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/4001358" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">great American</a>,” while she claimed that Dominion had been “created to produce altered voting results in Venezuela for Hugo Chavez, and then shipped internationally to manipulate votes for purchase in other countries, including this one.”</font></p></div></div><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Suzanne Scott</font></h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Fox News CEO <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Suzanne Scott</strong> also played a clear role in spreading lies and suppressing the truth on the network. Under questioning, Scott <a href="https://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/D8File/2023/02/16/2023-02-16-redacted-dominion-opening-sj-brief.pdf#page=14" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">affirmed</a> that she had always believed, since at least when the network itself had called Arizona and thus the election on November 7, 2020, that in fact Biden had won legitimately.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">And yet on multiple occasions, Scott reprimanded on-air talent who called out the lies and conspiracy theories</span>.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><b> E</b><b style="">xamples include <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/2020-election-lawsuits/fox-corp-ceo-lachlan-murdoch-insisted-network-cover-proto-jan-6-rally-more" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">her involvement</a> with Lachlan Murdoch in reprimanding then-anchor Leland Vittert’s coverage of the November 14 “Stop the Steal” rally,</b></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> as well as her reported </span><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/revealed-how-fox-prime-time-hosts-and-executives-attacked-fox-reporters-who-fact-checked" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 102); box-sizing: border-box; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">“screaming</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">” about negative coverage by anchor Dana Perino and then-Fox reporter Kristen Fisher of the infamous November 19 press conference by Trump attorneys and election conspiracy theorists Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell.</span> “<b>The audience feels like we crapped on [them] and we have damaged their trust and belief in us….We can fix this but we cannot smirk at our viewers any longer,”</b> Scott said at the time.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The filing also reveals that Scott worked personally to preserve the network’s relationship with right-wing billionaire conspiracy theorist<b> Mike Lindell, CEO of MyPillow</b>, assisting him in spreading dangerous lies about the election and Dominion Voting Systems. In mid-December, after Lindell publicly claimed that Fox was supposedly “in on” stealing the election, the filing details that Scott <a href="https://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/D8File/2023/03/02/2023-02-27-redacted-dominions-answering-brief-in-opp-to-smj.pdf?VersionId=b5YWAL48BlcDpa1fUHXgtcWCHSx.Z5rh#page=51" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">sent a personal note and a gift</a> to Lindell. She further suggested that shows should book Lindell in order to “get ratings.” (Rupert Murdoch himself <a href="https://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/D8File/2023/03/02/2023-02-27-redacted-dominions-answering-brief-in-opp-to-smj.pdf?VersionId=b5YWAL48BlcDpa1fUHXgtcWCHSx.Z5rh#page=51" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">admitted</a> that Fox went out of its way to preserve its relationship with Lindell, one of the network’s largest advertisers, to shore up its profits.)</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">When the network later hosted Lindell on the January 26, 2021, edition of <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>Tucker Carlson Tonight</b></span>, the star prime-time host depicted his network’s top advertiser as a <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/tucker-carlson-suddenly-gives-welcome-ear-election-conspiracy-theories-when-they" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">champion of free speech</a>, rather than challenging him on his false claims about the election or his apparent effort to urge Trump to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/15/pillow-salesman-apparently-has-some-ideas-about-declaring-martial-law/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">impose martial law</a>.</font></p></div></div><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Viet Dinh</font></h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Fox Corp. chief legal and policy officer <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Viet Dinh</strong> also <a href="https://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/D8File/2023/03/02/2023-02-27-redacted-dominions-answering-brief-in-opp-to-smj.pdf?VersionId=b5YWAL48BlcDpa1fUHXgtcWCHSx.Z5rh#page=22" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">admitted</a> during his testimony that Fox executives had a duty to “prevent and correct” falsehoods.</font></p></div></div><blockquote class="block-quote block-quote--collapsable" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="block-quotequote" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 1.5rem;"><p style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Q. But when the executives at Fox News know that hosts of shows are broadcasting allegations that the executives know or believe to be false, in that situation, the executives have an obligation to act, right?</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A. If they are within the chain of command and if they -- and if they come to that knowledge, yes.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Q. And by “act,” that means to put a stop to it, right?</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Q. They have an obligation under those circumstances, the executives do, in the chain of command, to put a stop to those broadcasts, right, sir?</font></strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">A. Yes, to prevent and correct known falsehoods.</font></strong></p></div></blockquote><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Dinh confirmed under questioning that he had “<a href="https://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/D8File/2023/03/02/2023-02-27-redacted-dominions-answering-brief-in-opp-to-smj.pdf?VersionId=b5YWAL48BlcDpa1fUHXgtcWCHSx.Z5rh#page=125" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">pretty easily</a>” been able to look up and debunk the claim that Dominion was owned by a Venezuelan company and founded in order to rig elections for the late dictator Hugo Chavez. But the filing suggests Dinh <a href="https://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/D8File/2023/03/02/2023-02-27-redacted-dominions-answering-brief-in-opp-to-smj.pdf?VersionId=b5YWAL48BlcDpa1fUHXgtcWCHSx.Z5rh#page=168" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">failed to require</a> Fox News hosts and guests to debunk such easily discredited lies. On the contrary, the network aired that bogus claim <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/it-wasnt-just-sidney-powell-fox-repeated-same-dominion-lies" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">over and over again</a>.</font></p></div></div><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Raj Shah</font></h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Fox Senior Vice President <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Raj Shah </strong>sent numerous internal communications about the damage to Fox’s reputation among conservative viewers, including the supposed “<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/revealed-how-fox-prime-time-hosts-and-executives-attacked-fox-reporters-who-fact-checked" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">brand threat</a>” posed by Fox figures who openly debunked Trump’s fake claims of mass election fraud. On November 13, he <a href="https://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/D8File/2023/03/02/2023-02-27-redacted-dominions-answering-brief-in-opp-to-smj.pdf?VersionId=b5YWAL48BlcDpa1fUHXgtcWCHSx.Z5rh#page=40" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">sent</a> a “Brand Protection Unit Roundup” to Lachlan Murdoch, Dinh, and Scott, stating there was “strong conservative and viewer backlash to Fox that we are working to track and mitigate.” He further explained that “[p]ositive impressions of Fox News among our viewers dropped precipitously after Election Day to the lowest levels we’ve ever seen.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In order to mitigate this damage, at one point he pitched the idea of “<a href="https://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/D8File/2023/03/02/2023-02-27-redacted-dominions-answering-brief-in-opp-to-smj.pdf?VersionId=b5YWAL48BlcDpa1fUHXgtcWCHSx.Z5rh#page=170" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">some sort of public mea culpa for the AZ call</a>,” or “some programming that’s focused on hearing our viewers grievances about how we’ve handled the election.” I<b>n other words, Shah wanted the network to apologize for actually broadcasting a truthful story.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In another instance, when host Tucker Carlson <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/voter-fraud-and-suppression/right-wing-media-feud-erupts-over-trump-lawyer-sidney-powells-bonkers" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">briefly feuded</a> with Sidney Powell, Shah <a href="https://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/D8File/2023/03/02/2023-02-27-redacted-dominions-answering-brief-in-opp-to-smj.pdf?VersionId=b5YWAL48BlcDpa1fUHXgtcWCHSx.Z5rh#page=171" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">instructed a producer</a> for Carlson’s show to downplay the extent of her ludicrous claims. At the same time as Shah described Powell’s claims as “so fucking insane,” he also advised Carlson’s team to “pivot to being deferential.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Shah suggested the phrasing “we hope she is able to provide the evidence in court and we’ll bring it to viewers when they do” — even though he knew no such evidence existed or could ever be offered in court. In another message just the next day, Shah described Powell’s claims as “MIND BLOWINGLY NUTS.”</font></p></div></div><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jay Wallace</font></h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Fox News President and Executive Editor <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Jay Wallace</strong> is also responsible for his inaction on the network’s continued lies about the election, even as a Dominion consultant repeatedly </span><a href="https://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/D8File/2023/03/02/2023-02-27-redacted-dominions-answering-brief-in-opp-to-smj.pdf?VersionId=b5YWAL48BlcDpa1fUHXgtcWCHSx.Z5rh#page=42" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">reached out to him personall</span>y</a> (citations removed):</font></p></div></div><blockquote class="block-quote block-quote--collapsable" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="block-quotequote" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 1.5rem;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">The day before the WSJ editorial and article appeared—November 16— </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Dominion’s Communications Consultant Tony Fratto, former Deputy White House Press Secretary under President George W. Bush</b>, personally brought the false allegations to the attention of the two top executives at FNN—Scott and Wallace</span><span style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">— telling them that Dominion, “as you know, has received a great deal of attention on FoxNews [sic] and from the President. An enormous amount of misinformation -- actually, completely and verifiable wrong information—is finding its way on-air.” F<b>ratto offered to provide the two of them a briefing about Dominion and concluded: “I think this situation is crossing dangerous lines.”</b> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Scott responded asking Wallace to provide his thoughts, and Wallace and Fratto then spoke over the phone. When Lou Dobbs again broadcast lies about Dominion that very night, Fratto reached out again to Wallace. He forwarded part of the transcript to Wallace and told him: “More fucking out [and out] lies. Honestly. He is a disgrace.”</span></font></p></div></blockquote><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Irena Briganti</font></h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Irena Briganti</strong>, Fox News senior executive vice president of corporate communications, also presided over the network’s continued inaction, even as it was clearly brought to her attention <a href="https://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/D8File/2023/03/02/2023-02-27-redacted-dominions-answering-brief-in-opp-to-smj.pdf?VersionId=b5YWAL48BlcDpa1fUHXgtcWCHSx.Z5rh#page=46" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">via a press inquiry</a> (</span>citations removed):</font></p></div></div><blockquote class="block-quote block-quote--collapsable" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="block-quotequote" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 1.5rem;"><p style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On December 1, a reporter with The Washington Post emailed FNN stating that Powell had appeared on both Dobbs and Hannity’s programs the day before making claims of voting machine fraud. The reporter asked,</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em 48px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[D]oes Fox News Media management have any concerns about the veracity of the claims that Powell has been making on network shows? Is Sidney Powell welcome to appear on any Fox News Media show? Has Fox News Media encouraged show hosts to fact-check claims about voter fraud?</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">Irena Briganti forwarded the inquiry to Scott and Wallace, stating “FYI—we spoke with Lauren [Petterson] and Meade [Cooper] </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">and there’s nothing to combat this, so we are not responding.”</span></font></p></div></blockquote><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">David Clark</font></h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">David Clark</strong>, senior vice president for weekend news and programming, was directly responsible for Fox host Maria Bartiromo’s <b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Sunday Morning Futures</span> </b>program, in which she hosted Giuliani and Powell. </span>The filing <a href="https://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/D8File/2023/03/02/2023-02-27-redacted-dominions-answering-brief-in-opp-to-smj.pdf?VersionId=b5YWAL48BlcDpa1fUHXgtcWCHSx.Z5rh#page=33" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">reveals</a> that he also agreed with the statement that there was “no credible evidence of massive cheating or fraud,” and yet he allowed her to continue <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/voter-fraud-and-suppression/fox-anchor-maria-bartiromo-keeps-promoting-debunked-tinfoil-hat" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">spreading conspiracy theories</a> by hosting figures such as Powell and Giuliani, and to not push back on them. I<b>nterestingly, the Dominion filing notes the ways in which Clark took active steps to <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-producers-thought-jeanine-pirro-was-nuts-then-network-promoted-her-its-top-rated-show" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">temporarily rein in</a> Fox host Jeanine Pirro, but he seemingly failed to do so with Bartiromo.</b></font></p></div></div><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox Business executives</font></h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox Business executives <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Lauren Petterson </strong>and<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Gary Schreier</strong> spoke of using Fox Business shows to grab viewers who were going away from Fox News proper, by supporting the election lies. (They just couldn’t be as open about it, compared to Fox’s <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/2020-election-lawsuits/fox-news-lied-about-dominion-and-2020-election-compete-far-right-newsmax" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">far-right competition</a> at Newsmax.) From the <a href="https://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/D8File/2023/03/02/2023-02-27-redacted-dominions-answering-brief-in-opp-to-smj.pdf?VersionId=b5YWAL48BlcDpa1fUHXgtcWCHSx.Z5rh#page=32" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">filing</a> (citations removed):</font></p></div></div><blockquote class="block-quote block-quote--collapsable" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="block-quote__quote" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 1.5rem;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The night of November 7, after Fox called the election, Fox Business Network (“FBN”) President Lauren Petterson wrote FBN executive Gary Schreier that she had turned off Fox’s coverage: “I don’t know how we work here. Honestly. We are going to look back at this week and know this was when we lost a significant part of our audience who won’t come back. As soon as Facebook starts telling people to go to [N]ewsmax.” But Schreier and Petterson saw an opening: “You know though between us. This is a problem for the channel yes. But if we keep doing what we do, fbn will get a bunch of the disenfranchised folks too.” Petterson responded: “100 percent. I was talking about exactly that with my husband last night.<b> It’s actually an opening for us.” Schreier: “Yes. We just can’t play for it openly like newsmax and oan.”</b></font></p></div></blockquote><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">===</font></p>