It was billed as the defamation trial of the century. Rupert Murdoch, Fox news stars and executives would take the stand to justify why the network broadcast lies about the 2020 presidential election. Four Corners: Fox & the Big Lie (Updated), Youtube 46.03, ABC 2003
For weeks Fox hosts peddled the conspiracy that a communist plot had used voting machines to steal victory from Donald Trump. ibid.
For ninety minutes Trump whipped up the crowd with his own interpretation of the big lie. ibid.
Trump intends to take the big lie all the way to 2024. ibid.
In an effort to win back Trump supporters, key Fox anchors began telling them what they wanted to hear. ibid.
Trump went on air with one of his favourite apologists with a fully fledged conspiracy about how vote-counting machines had been used to steal the election. ibid.
Truth is about to go on trial in America … When the facts didn’t suit Donald Trump he simply made up his own. After 3rd November Trump ramped up his stolen election lies. And Fox News helped him spread them … High-profile Fox anchors peddled the lie that the election had been stolen. Fox & the Big Lie II, Youtube 48.18
Congress has finally begun investigating the actions of the disgraced former president around the January 6th insurrection. ibid.
The role of the powerful Trump news network in the critical period after the 2020 election when Fox News hosts embraces and spread the big lie. ibid.
Television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse and incense. And television and those who finance it, those who look and those who work in it may see a totally different picture tonight. Good Night & Good Luck 2005 starring George Clooney & David Strathairn & Patricia Clarkson & Robert Downey jr & Frank Langella & Jeff Daniels & Tate Donovan & Ray Wise & Helen Slayton-Hughes & Alex Borstein et al, director George Clooney, Murrow
Fellas, the next show is going to be about Senator McCarthy. I’m going to go right at it. ibid. Fred
Twice he [McCarthy] said the American Civil Liberties Union was listed as a subversive front. The Attorney General’s list does not and has never listed the ACLU, nor does the FBI or any other government organisation. ibid. Murrow
The line between investigating and persecuting is a very fine one. ibid.