ABC News made a terrible mistake when it agreed to settle President-elect Donald Trump's defamation case, wrote Eric Wemple in a scathing opinion analysis for The Washington Post on Monday. The settlement, which includes a contribution of $15 million to fund a presidential library for Trump, stems from anchor George Stephanopoulos repeatedly saying Trump was found "liable for rape" in …
Editor’s Note: A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. On Thursday, the Daily Beast reported that Baier and now-former host Tucker Carlson engaged in a conversation on November 4, 2020, about potentially delaying Fox News’ call of the election. “Given the extremely narrow 0.3% margin and a new projection mechanism that no other network had, …
A Dominion Voting Systems legal brief that contains a wealth of text and emails sent between Fox News executives and on-air personalities that admits they were spreading lies about the 2020 presidential election results also contains about 35 redacted passages — and now questions are being raised about what is being hidden. In one passage documented in the Washington Post …
Washington Post media critic Erik Wemple found himself astonished by the "scandalous" information that lawyers representing Dominion Voting Systems have unearthed in their lawsuit against Fox News. "Sidney Powell is a bit nuts," said Fox News host Laura Ingraham of the lawyer who claimed that dead Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez conspired with Dominion to steal the election from Trump. When …
Host of 'The Daily' Clouds 'N.Y. Times' Effort To Restore Trust After 'Caliphate' Enlarge this image toggle caption Evan Agostini/Associated Press Evan Agostini/Associated Press Late last week, The New York Times issued one of its biggest mea culpas in years. Barbaro introduced the new series: "From The New York Times and the team that brought you The Daily, this is …
