Did you know that Fox News and its parent company Fox Corp settled their defamation lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems on Tuesday afternoon?
Chances are that if you only get information from Fox News Channel or the website of the Conservative Network, you will not know that a compromise has occurred. The network barely covered the story that it has agreed to pay $787 million to avoid a lawsuit over whether or not it knowingly spread falsehoods about the 2020 election and the voting company that sued it.
Instead, the network’s primetime stars talked about other matters and, later in the night, the channel’s late-night news team focused more on a story it warned went unchecked in Chicago over the weekend. were teenagers.
During this, on the official website of the network There was not a single mention of settlement. As of this writing, readers are instead being told the story about Joe Biden’s taxes, Tucker Carlson’s interview with Elon Musk, Ray Romano’s heart surgery, and yes, a swan rescue.
Adam Kinzinger, a former Congressman from Illinois and now senior political commentator for CNN, was among those to point out the omission on Twitter.
“Just looked at Fox News, no mention of the agreement on their website,” Kinzinger wrote.
Kinzinger also retweeted a post that featured the front pages of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post on their websites.
The lack of coverage on the lawsuit does not stop at the network level, even on owned-and-operated stations such as WFLD-TV Fox 32 Chicago, KTTV-TV Fox 11 Los AngelesThere are dozens of stories on their webpages, but only one mentions the settlement under the “National News section”—which requires quite a bit of scrolling down the page to see.
Interestingly, when the agreement was announced on Tuesday, Fox said in a statement that it “reflects Fox’s continued commitment to the highest journalistic standards.” It’s odd, we’ll admit, that the network is choosing not to brag about that commitment on its own platform. oh good