Fox News threatened to destroy Dominion's reputation—and profits.
, Mark Joseph Stern and Dahlia Lithwick discussed the case and what it tells us about the law’s ability—or inability—to save democracy. Their conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity.Mark, this week you and I thought the Dominion trial would be happening and we’d all be watching. But we aren’t because, they settled. Are you surprised?Of course Dominion settled—in retrospect, it was probably always going to settle.
to sue. They used the threat of a trial, in which all these secrets would come out, as a bargaining chip. They went all the way to jury selection because they were pressing Fox as hard as they could for a big settlement. And that’s what they got. Now they can expand further into the market. And they got Fox to—well, not quite to apologize, but to say in the passive tense that mistakes were made, which was probably the best they were going to do.
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