{"id":1016222,"date":"2023-03-07T01:05:49","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T01:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.projectcensored.org\/?p=27808"},"modified":"2023-03-07T01:05:49","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T01:05:49","slug":"journalistic-malpractice-on-trial-what-the-dominion-voting-system-tells-us-about-how-the-media-sacrificed-their-credibility-to-partisan-falsehoods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/03\/07\/journalistic-malpractice-on-trial-what-the-dominion-voting-system-tells-us-about-how-the-media-sacrificed-their-credibility-to-partisan-falsehoods\/","title":{"rendered":"Journalistic Malpractice on Trial: What the Dominion Voting System Tells Us About How the Media Sacrificed their Credibility to Partisan Falsehoods"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Nolan Higdon<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is direct evidence of knowing falsity\u201d exclaimed RonNell Anderson Jones<\/span><\/a>, Professor of Law at the University of Utah, in a February 2023 interview with Jon Stewart. Jones <\/span>noted that in most defamation cases \u201cthe likelihood that you will find evidence of them [news outlets] saying, \u2018We know this is a lie and we would like to move forward with it anyway is deeply unlikely.\u2019\u201d However, in the case of <\/span>Dominion Voting Systems v. Fox News,<\/span> \u201cthe filing contains just this trove of evidence of emails and text messages<\/span> and internal memos that are \u2018rare\u2019 both in terms of the \u2018volume of the evidence and as to the directness of the evidence.\u2019\u201d This sentiment was echoed by Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe<\/span><\/a> who noted, \u201cI have never seen a defamation case with such overwhelming proof that the defendant admitted in writing that it was making up fake information in order to increase its viewership and its revenues.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the $1.6 billion<\/span><\/a><\/span> defamation lawsuit<\/span><\/a><\/span>,<\/span> Dominion Voting Systems accuses <\/span>Fox News Channel of falsely reporting that Dominion\u2019s voting machines fraudulently delivered victory to Joe Biden in the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. Court documents attained by other media outlets reveal that hosts<\/span><\/a> and other high-ranking<\/span><\/a><\/span> Fox News Channel officials \u2013 including the <\/span>Chairman and CEO of Fox\u2019s parent company News Corporation,<\/span> Rupert Murdoch \u2013 knew these reports were false, <\/span>but aired them because<\/span> they were more concerned with confirming<\/span><\/a> their <\/span>audience\u2019s belief that Donald Trump won the election. <\/span><\/p>\n

The evidence presented in the court documents speaks to the journalistic malpractice that plagues the cable news industry. Journalistic malpractice refers to professional journalists who privilege ideological bias and profits over truth in their reporting. Fox News Channel is patient zero for the plague of journalistic malpractice. It was created in 1996 by Rupert Murdoch<\/span><\/a> and the late Roger Ailes<\/span><\/a>, a media consultant for several Republican presidents,<\/span> as a political project to sell conservative culture and policy to the American public with pro-conservative propaganda disguised as journalism. For example, Fox News Channel has<\/p>\n