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Catching up on backboards - ST, you're gonna pay for this, but I agree with David-cumber on the Dominion thing.

Posted by Turd Ferguson (aka Jim) Apr 19 '23, 07:14

This is quite literally the closest thing to an admission of guilt that we would ever get from Fox. Even if it went to trial and a jury found them guilty - the company line would be "you can't get an impartial jury anymore because of the liberal elites and they all hate trump and blah blah blah.

As far as facts coming out - they're all out. Everyone knows them.

And as glass half full as David's post was about this - mine is half empty over the fact that in today's climate - truth and facts no longer matter to a good chunk of this country.

So - in all seriousness - what do we think would have "gotten fixed" if this had gone to trial and Dominion had won and (as Will suggested) the judge let a $1.6bil award stand for a $100mil company?

Is that $1.6 enough to take Fox off the air? Would ANYone at Fox even lose their time slot, let alone job?

Just some happy hump day musings.

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Realistically, there was never going to be a “win”. All we could hope for (and got) was for Fox to keep punching itself in the dick as much as it did. -- (edited) - znufrii Apr 19, 07:48 1
- best case it did what it needed to - confirmed for sane people out there this is just an act. - colin Apr 19, 07:57
I would like to have seen them have to do an hourly on air announcement that they lied about the validity of the election results and that their on ai - jnine Apr 19, 07:36 5
- As well as an ongoing crawler at the bottom of the screen stating, "This network is propaganda." and "This program is not factual and should be viewed - Spawn Apr 19, 07:39 4
  - I keep telling my Fox viewing dad they are classified as entertainment and not news.He always acts like he's never heard it before, no matter how many - jnine Apr 19, 07:45 3
    - I'm truly sorry about your dad's health. -- nm - David Apr 19, 10:09 1
      - Thank you. I really don't think that's the reason he's enthralled with Fox. His wife is 14 years younger and she's more conservative. It's the way they were raised and where they live. It's one of the reasons I -- (edited) - jnine Apr 19, 11:13
    - Kool-Aid should make Fox flavor. -- nm - Spawn Apr 19, 08:07
I've come around to the fact that the reaction means more than the ruling. If Dems and others don't magnify the facts that are known, its a fail. - Volnelk Apr 19, 07:27 1
- It needed to be an on air admission by Fox. My dad watches them non-stop. I brought up they lied about the election and he said he had heard something - jnine Apr 19, 07:41
$1.6B is 1/4th of their revnue for a 3-month period -- (edited) - decline Apr 19, 07:17 6
- David is right. The big fight is their carriage fees. They are the 2nd most expensive network to carry. You wanna hurt them, call your - Will Hunting Apr 19, 07:24
- this stat cannot be right. I know they make money. But they are not pulling in 1.6 billion profit every three months. -- nm - Jovian Apr 19, 07:22 4
  - oops, you're right. That's revenue - not profit -- nm - decline Apr 19, 07:23
  - they make $100 million a year profit at best, if I had to guess. -- nm - Jovian Apr 19, 07:23 2
    - this is low though. Net income for the 3 month ending 12/31 was $321M -- (link) - decline Apr 19, 07:28 1
      - yikes. So it still amounts to little under a one year profit penalty. :( - Jovian Apr 19, 07:41

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