Ken WhiteApr 19, 2023
Serious Trouble episode (with a re-recorded section after settlement) about Dominion dropping today. We didn’t talk about:
* No trial result would have had the judge ordering Fox to apologize on air
*No trial result would have resulted in Fox being punished for damage to democracy
*. No trial result could have ”established facts” as true or false for all purposes in America
If your expectations for the legal system are not reality-based you’re going to be consistently disappointed.
Show threadTodd Knarr
@Popehat I think the important thing about going to trial and winning would've been making it clear that Dominion had _won_. The settlement, by making the amount public, does the same thing: no way is that amount Fox paying to make a nuisance suit go away, the only reason to pay that much to settle is if they knew they'd lost and the only question was how much more than that the jury would end up awarding.
Apr 19, 2023 at 3:45pmWeb