Lots of buzz last night when the news broke that the Dominion Voting Systems-Fox "News" trial would be delayed a day. Legal beagles quite rightly pointed out that this kind of thing doesn't happen unless the parties were in pretty serious settlement talks.
Team Fox obviously knows they're in deep trouble. They've been outed as disreputable liars by their own internal emails, and, just in the last week, have had to apologize to Judge Eric Davis for withholding evidence and misrepresenting Rupert Murdoch's role with the network. Their evil knows no bounds.
That's why, although people are screaming at Dominion not to settle — they want to see these Fox criminals take the stand — here's some advice if they do. Yes, Dominion, take Fox for eleventy billion dollars or whatever. But make them correct the record.
This will be crucial to repairing any damage to its reputation that Dominion may have suffered. After all, Fox styles itself as a news organization. So, we have some suggestions for Rupert and his rogues on what their corrections campaign should look like:
- A two-hour (three-hour?), crap-eating, prime-time special, recapping all the lying about Dominion and juxtaposing it against their email traffic and the recently revealed tapes. Each offender — from Hannity to Ingraham to Carlson (especially Carlson) to Bartiromo — needs to sit alone in front of the camera, admit the falsehoods and fakery, and apologize.
- An ad campaign in both print and online editions of The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal (hahahahaha), USA Today and all Gannett papers, and whatever other major papers and platforms the judge deems necessary.
- Billboards. Lots of billboards. Maybe a series of them, each featuring a different Fox talking head and the headline, "I LIED."
- A formal written apology from the network, not just published everywhere, but read by the Fox anchors "on air at the top of every hour, for at least a month" (H/T George Conway).
All this — plus whatever else the judge comes up with (he has reason to be punitive, after all) — would be just fine by us. We cats PURR.
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