Fox News will likely try to recoup the $787 million settlement by negotiating higher carriage fees with cable providers.
Those providers will then pass the extra costs to you by increasing your monthly bill, even if you never watch Fox News
Fox News lies
You pay
Bear in mind this is just the first hit to Fox. There's a series of other suits following this one.
This. I’m surprised cable is even still a thing.
-fighting against who? The ultra-right wing carriers who support Fox? Are they fighting for DirectTV, Cox, Sinclair, or Comcast to not carry right wing propaganda? I don’t think they are going to get very far. Could they get RT to stop covering Putin?
cc: @juddlegum
@Woodswalked @juddlegum Well, what I was referring to was related to this: https://www.nexttv.com/news/media-matters-targets-fox-news-carriage-fees
I'm not suggesting hope. I'm suggesting there are realistic tactics being employed here and there.
I believe in not supporting bad actors. I never shop at Wal-mart due to that. I don’t think my boycott is going to change their behavior. It would be nice. Media Matters is a pretty good org.
cc: @juddlegum
@juddlegum This isn't how things work. If Fox News could get more money from cable companies they already would have. Prices are set by the market, not costs.
The idea that businesses can pass costs to consumers is a lie that pro-business groups invented as an excuse for why they shouldn't be taxed, regulated, or pay higher wages. These things eat up profits, they can't be passed to consumers.
@Artemis201 Why would a business that can raise prices wait until costs increased before doing so? Are they just being benevolent by getting lower profits?
Insulin prices prove my point. They weren’t based on cost, they were ridiculously high just because they could. And if they could charge more for higher costs, they could have charged more anyway.
Unless a business chooses to do so, prices are never based on cost and they can’t pass costs to consumers.
@juddlegum haha legacy cable providers are going to win that game of chicken as they are bleeding subscribers they'll drop Fox News rather than pay higher carriage fees.
When Faux News start with the "call your cable company to demand to keep them from being dropped" customer reps will be prepared to switch them over to internet only packages and they'll have to subscribe to Fox Nation streaming service.
There's going to be less revenue to NewsCorp
Or how about just f'n cut cable. The few sports games and shows you want to watch isn't worth funding a pro-fascism misinformation machine.
Murdoch will sign that check with a smile. I’m guessing they will take it as a business expense and write it off.
I don’t have cable
I don’t either actually. I don’t even watch TV anymore.
#dominion
#settlement
I know the word of the day is “disappointment”…
Folks forget to consult the (Gordon)”Gekko rules of Business”…
They’re “hedge fund” folks…
It’s about the cash.💰
I look at stopping 🦊…like “eating” an elephant 🐘…
One bite at a time.
Or handing the baton to the next relay runner.
#smartmatic & others can use the “roadmap” Dominion left them.
😮💨…that’s A LOT of metaphors…I pulled something.
So I’ll end w/this “Gekko-ism”…
Corp’s…”Greed is good.”
@juddlegum WTF do they ever tell the truth?
**They should have a certified TRUTH warning!**
Fox News Agrees To Pay $787M To Settle Dominion False-Election Claims Case; “Fox Has Admitted To Telling Lies,” Voting Systems CEO Says
He ruined the UK & took US citizenship to own the press news (or was given it?) To do the same there!
Wait, did Dominion decide to settle anyway? I thought they rejected settlement and went to jury selection.
Simply true!
@juddlegum
Tracking the Mudroach "win" I oddly checked a BBC page oddly very very recently deleted & now back? ODD THAT?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12062176
Here is the original undeleted page!
https://web.archive.org/web/20101223042749/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12062176
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