conspiracies by the ex-president and his allies including in the media. in its $1.6 billion defamation case pierces the hermetically sealed bubble that is fox news. the network that drives the conversation and conduct in the republican party and on the right like none other. it shows that hosts on fox news either peddled the big lie that the 2020 election was stolen from trump or gave the platform for people to spread the big lie that the election was stolen from trump for one reason and one reason only, fear, terror really of losing viewers and tumbling stock prices and viewers migrating to more radical outlets. messages and emails obtained by dominion along with testimony from fox news employees and hosts reveals that it was well known and bantered about inside fox news that the vote fraud conspiracies were as rupert murdoch put it terrible stuff, damaging everybody. and that it was, quote, very hard to credibly claim foul. claim foul, they did and panic over viewers turnin
opinion to live and co-exist peacefully, it s there. you can do it. you can do it effectively but you got to have the integrity to be able to do it. if you re not going to give the news then don t use the news moniker. say i am just an opinion channel. i m only going to give you opinion and opinion only. the complete manipulation was knowingly done by fox news, its personalities and its owners, by the right. we have text messages from steve bannon of all people to maria bartiromo. not just internal text messages between the talent, you got steve bannon who we know was one of the primary architects of not only the creation of donald trump but the presidency as well as the insurrection and he says, 71 million voters will never accept biden. this process is to destroy his presidency before it starts. we either close on trump s victory or delegitimize biden,
that organized groups that are out there, like george soros, are always ready to take the charge and it is kind of like instant rally, instant protest. i thought that fake news moniker had some bounds. i guess it doesn t, right? this is, i think what we will see. conservatives play hard ball when it comes to some of them aren t, nia. a lot of them are not a lot of them are i think you might hear others who are going this way and instead of saying these are kids who are acting on their own, you know, sorrow, you know, acting because of what they saw in their classrooms and in their school hallways, he is saying that they are being hijacked. it shows they re effective. it shows right now they re effective messengers. you re seeing on twitter some kind of very fringe publications start going after these kids. they re high school kids, in a school shooting, that s disgraceful. yeah.
having trouble in high school, that he could be a voice and role model for them. you can understand why he would be so concerned about wanting to deal with mike pence. he did say after he competes, he told me this on the 17th, he would certainly be willing to entertain a conversation with the vice president. and the vice president did try to clean this up to a certain extent. i want you to know we are for you. don t let fake news distract you. i m proud of you and all of our great athletes. and my only hope for you and all of team usa is to bring home the gold. go get em. it would be nice if there could have been a clean breaks between the politics and the olympics. thank you for reporting it. it should be just about the olympics, but it never is. thank you for being with us this morning. enjoy it. i look forward to your coverage reporter: chris, thanks so much. take care. thank you. i think the fake news moniker loses some of its punch when you use it every day and you use it w
to be objective and you see it s less objective. howie: i would argue every mistake tarnishes all of us. it does darken the image. jessica, there are instances when journalists get story right, but they get hammered on social media because they don t believe them or they are buying into conspiracy theories or they are on the other team, so to speak. jessica: the fake news moniker that the president coined himself is dangerous that this is what journalism is all about. uncovering things and presenting them fairly. we know the different between reports and opinion journalists. and that has got many less blurred since the trump ascendancy. when there is a mistake it does tarnish the entire industry.