big fox story of the week, which is dominions lawsuit, defamation lawsuit against fox, is being able to move forward? the lawsuit survived a motion to dismiss, which means now it will enter the discovery phase. and this is all about the big lie on 1/6. how do you link these up? i think they show that it s incredibly difficult, brian, it s uncomfortable to build a business based on lies. this is what it s about, fox hosts and fox news network lying to viewers. now they ve been exposed and facing litigation which could cost them a lot of money because they were not honest with the viewers. they were dishonest. i think that s really the thorough line here. maybe the advice for fox would be just tell the truth once in a while. claire, will fox try to settle and do you think dominion will go along with this? that s a very good question. i m sure there are concerns how much it will cost them, brian. but i think it s important to think about fox news as a business and context of what w
the atlantic, and lately that means covering covid. david and katherine, thank you both for coming on the program. thanks, brian. thank you for having us. how are you thinking about this weekend and these surges? you and i know what s happened the past few days. major metropolitan areas where a lot of journalists, there s been an incredible spike in covid cases, a lot of attention on it now and i think there s debates about how to be covering the story and how to be assessing cases differently. is the nfl the right pathway forward? is the nfl s changing protocol is that the right pathway forward now? i m not sure it s the right pathway for everyone. i do think directionally it tends to treat this differently the way the nfl is doing it. here s basically how i think of it. i think, brian, your point about uncertainty is really the first point. there s an enormous amount about omicron we still do not know. based on the best available evidence, it almost certainly seems to be su
pro probably as in world war ii and as in the civil war, the coverage has to be of the real war. that could be four or five years as it was in world war ii and the civil war, and that is the fight against americans who want to vote. a party committed to keeping americans from voting. i covered the voting rights act of 1965 when it was passed. this party of seditious undermining of american democracy and our electoral system is trying to undo that voting rights act, which guaranteed all americans the right to vote. so this is the big story that we cannot lose sight of. we need to cover it like the war that it is every day, every important battle. yes, we need to cover all stories, but this story is ongoing and must be the focus of our attention because it is about the undermining of american democracy at its most basic level and it s been