Media silos that push opinion content as fact aren’t getting much love lately.
I wrote about Sarah Palin’s recent and failed attempt to hold the New York Times responsible here.
They say that bad facts make bad low, but accountability may be a good thing. Hannity, Carlson, Pirro, & Dobbs get to show their homework under oath with a lot of money on the line.
Lawyers for Dominion Voting Systems last week questioned hosts Jeanine Pirro and Tucker Carlson, while former Fox Business Network host Lou Dobbs and Fox News’s Sean Hannity are scheduled for depositions on Tuesday and Wednesday, according to court filings.
The link to the WaPo story is here:
Fox News stars questioned by election tech company in defamation case
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