![]() Those exhibits contained a trove of damning private text messages, emails, and deposition transcripts that showed - in black and white - that Fox News hosts, like Tucker Carlson, were saying one thing on camera to the channel’s millions of loyal viewers while privately believing something entirely different. One high-profile Fox News personality asked me, for instance, where they could access the revealing raw exhibits that were released this week in the lawsuit by the voting technology company. In fact, some Fox News staffers have even reached out to me, looking for information on the case and asking for insight into their own network. Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg/Getty Imagesįox News and Dominion spar in new legal filings headquarters in New York, U.S., on Sunday, Feb. And in lieu of the network’s management providing status updates to its employees about the looming trial in Dominion’s lawsuit, staffers are intensely curious about where things stand.įox signage outside the News Corp. Many of those employees are thirsty for information about the case and privately discussing the revelations among themselves. Sign up for the daily digest chronicling the evolving media landscape here. Those who work for the channel, the people I spoke to said, are effectively expected to show up to work as usual and pretend that everything is normal.Ī version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. “I haven’t heard a thing,” said yet another. “I haven’t seen anything ,” another Fox News staffer told me. That was echoed to me over the last 48 hours by several other employees at Fox News. You would think after all we’ve been through nothing could surprise us. “People are really shocked and disgusted,” the staffer said of the damaging and embarrassing national headlines emanating from the lawsuit that have become a daily drumbeat in recent weeks. “There has been nothing” communicated to staff from the company’s management or human resources over Dominion Voting Systems’ mammoth $1.6 billion lawsuit against the network, one longtime Fox News staffer told me Wednesday evening. ![]() ![]() Fox News staffers are in the dark and vexed as the right-wing talk channel remains ensnared in one of the worst scandals of its 26-year history - and arguably the most consequential media scandal in modern American history.
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