Truth loses out in Fox News settlement, and that’s apparently what having a spare $780-million in your jeans can do

Fox News has gotten away with treating the most egregious breach of trust in media history as a mere cost of doing business.

By writing the biggest cheque in U.S. history in a defamation suit, Fox News hosts Laura Ingraham, left, Sean Hannity, and Tucker Carlson were spared their moment of truth in front of the country, writes Michael Harris.Photographs courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY MICHAEL HARRIS

April 24, 2023

HALIFAX–Here’s the bottom line on last week’s epic debacle in the Fox News-Dominion Voting System lawsuit: cash by the carload ensured that the truth did not prevail, took Fox off journalistic death-row, and left the network’s host-serial liars in the same positions ...

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