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here we go witness tampering by my reading this. Fux is dedicated to being a good right winger with lying and no truth to the top levels. IE right winger core beliefs.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/former-fox-news-producer-makes-new-claims-coached-testimony-rcna76790?
Former Fox News producer makes new claims about coached testimony
A former Fox News producer who testified in the Dominion case now wants to amend her deposition — to reflect alleged “coaching” from network lawyers.
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By Steve Benen
As if the Dominion Voting Systems defamation case weren’t already a serious problem for Fox News, a producer named Abby Grossberg added a new wrinkle to the network’s troubles last week by filing a lawsuit of her own.
According to Grossberg, who worked for Tucker Carlson and Maria Bartiromo, Fox not only has a “toxic” workplace culture that includes misogyny and discrimination, the network’s lawyers also “coerced, intimidated, and misinformed” her as they prepared her to testify in the Dominion defamation case.
Fox News has denied her claims, calling the allegations “baseless.” (It also initially filed a suit of its own, seeking a restraining order against Grossberg, hoping to prevent her from disclosing information related to the Dominion case, though that case was later withdrawn.) Her lawyers nevertheless said last week that Grossberg was concerned about having given “false/misleading and evasive answers” during her deposition following prep sessions with Fox’s legal team.
The network fired the producer late last week. This morning, as NBC News reported, the producer also took matters a bit further.
The former Tucker Carlson producer who sued Fox News last week alleging she was pressured into giving misleading testimony about the network’s coverage of supposed election fraud has filed new allegations about coercive coaching by Fox lawyers, bias and unprofessional behavior by staff members, and retaliation by the network.
In the Dominion case, Grossberg participated in a Sept. 14 deposition. This morning, she and her attorneys asked to amend her responses, offering what they characterized as more accurate information, free from network pressure.
“Based on what I understood and took away from the deposition preparation sessions I had with Fox’s legal team which were coercive and intimidating,” Grossberg said in an unredacted errata sheet filed in Delaware, “I felt that I had to do everything possible to avoid becoming the ‘star witness’ for Dominion or else I would be seriously jeopardizing my career at Fox News and would be subjected to worse terms and conditions of employment than male employees as I understood it.”
In her new filing, Grossberg also claims that Fox lawyers wanted her to downplay the importance of ratings in the network’s decision-making and that she felt “pressured to respond with a generic ‘I do not recall’ whenever she had the opportunity, even if she, in fact, did have a recollection, albeit perhaps not a perfect one.”
The amended complaint also alleges that Fox attorneys would repeatedly say to Grossberg, “‘who really can/does recall anything?’” thereby “fraudulently inducing her to deny facts she knew to exist.”
Separately, Dominion’s attorneys asked during the deposition whether she trusted her Fox colleagues. She answered yes in September, but in her amended filing, Grossberg is saying the opposite, accusing the network’s producers of being “activists, not journalists,” adding that they “impose their political agenda on the programing.”
A Fox News spokesperson issued a new response to the latest allegations, which read in part, “We will continue to vigorously defend Fox against Ms. Grossberg’s unmeritorious legal claims, which are riddled with false allegations against Fox and our employees.”
Following up on our coverage from last week, I’m still not in a position to evaluate the producer’s claims on the merits. That said, let’s go ahead and acknowledge the obvious: If her allegations are true, and the network pressured Grossberg into delivering misleading testimony during her deposition, that would be a rather significant development. |
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Fux Tucker give Russian doctored propaganda.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/how-russian-propaganda-went-from-fringey-social-media-to-fox-news-170538053958?
How Russian propaganda went from fringey social media to Fox News
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ruppy right wing hero again in another lawsuit for hacking peoples emails, you know right wing values of theft lying make you a hero to the vso claimed right wing victims.
Prince Harry suit against Murdoch reveals secret Prince William payoff
| Quote: | LONDON — Prince William was paid a “very large sum” by Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper arm to settle phone-hacking claims, according to new court documents submitted by his young brother Prince Harry’s legal team on Tuesday.
Harry is suing Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers (NGN) at the High Court in London for unlawful acts, including hacking his voice mails, that he alleges were committed on behalf of the Sun and the now defunct News of the World tabloids from the mid-1990s until 2016. The hearing is to determine whether the case should go to trial.
In documents submitted to the court, Harry’s legal team alleged there was a secret payment — made in 2020 — from Murdoch’s company to William. The submission doesn’t reveal the exact sum, nor the details of what William alleged happened, but said that NGN had settled with William “for a very large sum of money in 2020.”
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| real-human wrote: | ruppy right wing hero again in another lawsuit for hacking peoples emails, you know right wing values of theft lying make you a hero to the vso claimed right wing victims.
Remember how ruppys people were hacking into the dead 9-11 victims. yet the bush rove in-justice department did not go after ruppy and his criminal liars ie the base. Bush even let his families oil buddies from the country from where most of the 9=11 terrorists fly out of the country when all flights were still banned and did not have the people questioned.
Prince Harry suit against Murdoch reveals secret Prince William payoff
| Quote: | LONDON — Prince William was paid a “very large sum” by Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper arm to settle phone-hacking claims, according to new court documents submitted by his young brother Prince Harry’s legal team on Tuesday.
Harry is suing Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers (NGN) at the High Court in London for unlawful acts, including hacking his voice mails, that he alleges were committed on behalf of the Sun and the now defunct News of the World tabloids from the mid-1990s until 2016. The hearing is to determine whether the case should go to trial.
In documents submitted to the court, Harry’s legal team alleged there was a secret payment — made in 2020 — from Murdoch’s company to William. The submission doesn’t reveal the exact sum, nor the details of what William alleged happened, but said that NGN had settled with William “for a very large sum of money in 2020.”
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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/26/business/media/tucker-carlson-dominion-fox-news.html?campaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20230426&instance_id=0&nl=breaking-news&ref=cta®i_id=115919677&segment_id=131442&user_id=f730a3b9531f5b2c781c5ff7996dd05c
On Eve of Trial, Discovery of Carlson Texts Set Off Crisis Atop Fox
| Quote: | Private messages sent by Tucker Carlson that had been redacted in legal filings showed him making highly offensive remarks that went beyond the comments of his prime-time show.
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Tucker Carlson, wearing a blazer and khakis, stands at a glass lectern speaking into a microphone, with a bright wall of neon colors and lettering behind him.
The discovery of the texts added pressure on the Fox leadership as it sought to find a way to avoid a trial in the Dominion defamation lawsuit.Credit...Rebecca Noble for The New York Times
Jim RutenbergJeremy W. PetersMichael S. Schmidt
By Jim Rutenberg, Jeremy W. Peters and Michael S. Schmidt
April 26, 2023
Updated 7:19 p.m. ET
5 MIN READ
The day before Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation trial against Fox News was set to begin in a Delaware courthouse, the Fox board of directors and top executives made a startling discovery that helped lead to the breaking point between the network and Tucker Carlson, one of its top stars.
Private messages sent by Mr. Carlson that had been redacted in legal filings showed him making highly offensive and crude remarks that went beyond the inflammatory, often racist comments of his prime-time show and anything disclosed in the lead-up to the trial.
Despite the fact that Fox’s trial lawyers had these messages for months, the board and some senior executives were now learning about their details for the first time, setting off a crisis at the highest level of the company, according to two people with knowledge of the discussions.
The discovery added pressure on the Fox leadership as it sought to find a way to avoid a trial where Mr. Carlson — not to mention so many others at the network — would be questioned about the contents of the private messages they exchanged in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election.
Two days after the board’s discovery, Fox settled that case for $787.5 million, believed to be the highest for a defamation trial.
Several people with knowledge of Fox’s discussions said the redacted messages were a catalyst for one of the most momentous decisions Fox and its leaders — the father-son team of Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch — had made in years: to sever ties with the host of their highest-rated and highly profitable prime-time program and a face of the network in the Trump era.
The company dismissed him on Monday, with a phone call from Suzanne Scott, the chief executive of Fox News Media.
‘American Nationalist’
In 2022, The New York Times published a series on the rise of Tucker Carlson.
Takeaways: Our examination of Tucker Carlson’s career shows how his trajectory traces the transformation of American conservatism itself. Here’s what to know.
Stoking White Fear: Carlson constructed what may be the most racist show in the history of cable news — and also, by some measures, the most successful.
Reshaping Fox News: As civil war raged at the network, the prime-time host ascended — transforming Fox and becoming Donald Trump’s heir.
Apocalyptic Worldview: We analyzed 1,150 episodes of “Tucker Carlson Tonight” to see how he promotes extremist ideas and conspiracy theories.
In the end, according to one of the people with knowledge of the internal discussions, Lachlan Murdoch viewed forcing out Mr. Carlson as a “business decision,” just as he did the Dominion settlement.
Fox had no comment beyond its initial statement announcing “Fox News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways.”
Mr. Carlson and Bryan Freedman, a lawyer representing him, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
It is unclear why the Fox board and other executives did not know about the contents of the redacted messages until just before the trial, which was focused on whether Fox News had knowingly aired false claims about Dominion and its voting machines after the 2020 election. Unredacted portions of the documents, including some in which Mr. Carlson spoke derisively about former President Donald J. Trump, were widely reported on in the weeks before the trial.
The board considered using an outside law firm to investigate the top-rated host, concerned about the harm Mr. Carlson’s behavior might cause even beyond the Dominion case, the two people said.
By the time the board did see the redacted material, Lachlan Murdoch was already moving to find an out-of-court accommodation with Dominion, having given his negotiators the go-ahead to increase
Over the past two years, Rupert Murdoch, left, and his son Lachlan began to lose patience with Mr. Carlson, said people familiar with their complaints.Credit...Drew Angerer/Getty Images
Company executives have indicated that a variety of factors fed into the decision to fire Mr. Carlson after Fox stood by him for years as he drew protest and advertiser boycotts for trafficking in conspiracy theories and narratives of white grievance. But they acknowledge that the discovery of what was in the redacted text messages was an important factor in his ultimate dismissal.
The role that the messages — produced in the Dominion discovery process — played in helping to end Mr. Carlson’s career at Fox demonstrates the severity of the damage the suit inflicted on the company. Fox was battered repeatedly by damaging disclosures as it proceeded to trial. If it had settled far earlier in the process, the company could have avoided having to hand over Mr. Carlson’s messages and those of others, including from the personal accounts of both Murdochs.
Over the past two years, the Murdochs’ patience began to wear thin, said people familiar with their complaints. Mr. Carlson emerged as an almost unaccountable figure who drew new headaches with conspiracy theory programming that included falsely portraying the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol as possibly orchestrated by the federal government. Then, as the Dominion case headed to trial, he told his audience last month that the rioting was, in fact, a peaceful exercise, using security footage that the Republican Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy, had given to Mr. Carlson exclusively.
Although statements made on his show represented only a small piece of the Dominion lawsuit, the disclosures related to his messages took on an outsize role and added to the company’s public relations woes.
It is notable that even when compared with the extreme rhetoric Mr. Carlson was allowed to use on air, the messages released publicly had the ability to shock. In one, he referred to the lawyer Sidney Powell, a major proponent of the debunked theory that the Dominion machines switched votes, with a crude and misogynistic slur. Amid the cache of redacted messages was one in which he used a similar vulgarity to describe a senior Fox News executive, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
One person briefed on the contents of the redacted material said one of the messages was particularly offensive, adding to the concern at the top of the company. The Times has not seen the contents of the message.
Dominion lawyers planned to press the judge about using the contents of the redacted messages in their questioning of Mr. Carlson. The lawyers prepped dozens of potential questions for the host, along with hypothetical rejoinders they thought Mr. Carlson might use to deflect the toughest of them. And they planned to pin him down on the ones that were most demeaning toward women. The two sides had different views of whether much or any of Mr. Carlson’s unredacted messages would be seen in court — a difference that, at trial, would have been sorted by the presiding judge, Eric M. Davis of Delaware Superior Court.
The settlement of the Dominion case, however, has not ended the threat posed by the messages. The New York Times, The Associated Press and National Public Radio have challenged the redactions, meaning they could still become public.
And Mr. Carlson’s indiscretion has exposed him further. Given how polarizing he has been, both inside and outside Fox News, more evidence of embarrassing and inappropriate conduct could emerge. In video obtained by The Times, for instance, Mr. Carlson is shown off camera discussing his “postmenopausal fans” and whether they will approve of how he looks on the air. In another video, he is overheard describing a woman he finds “yummy.”
His texts could also factor in a pending defamation suit that the software company Smartmatic — often paired with Dominion in the wildest versions of the stolen-election conspiracy theory — has brought against Fox, as well as in a suit brought by a former Carlson producer, Abby Grossberg, alleging a hostile and discriminatory work environment.
All this was in the mix when the network finally cut Mr. Carlson’s program this week, according to several people familiar with the internal discussions. And, the end of his run followed a pattern.
His unceremonious departure made Mr. Carlson the latest in a list of prominent hosts and executives Fox has decided to show the door once the Murdochs concluded they were no longer worth the trouble: Glenn Beck (2011), Sarah Palin (2013), Roger Ailes, the network’s co-founder (2016) and Bill O’Reilly (2017).
Despite the political clout he could exercise and the money his top-rated show brought in for the network, ultimately, Mr. Carlson learned that he served at the pleasure of the Murdochs.
Their decision in the end was as swift and unsentimental as the two-paragraph statement the network sent in announcing his dismissal: “We thank him for his service.” |
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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/how-msnbc-created-fox-news_b_593093c6e4b0c242ca227286
How MSNBC Created Fox News
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Tom Rogers, Contributor
First President of NBC Cable, Former President and CEO of TiVo, Current Executive Chairman of WinView Games
Jun 1, 2017, 06:38 PM EDT
Much of the commentary surrounding the death of Roger Ailes has centered on the impact of the creation of Fox News and through that, its impact on our body politic. There is no doubt the former Fox News Chief created a media force which changed American politics, one which arguably has led to the political divide and reaction that ultimately resulted in the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States.
But a critical factor, one that is generally not known, is that MSNBC is responsible for the creation and unleashing of Fox News. Yes, that is right. MSNBC, the left-leaning cable arm of NBC spawned Fox News. While the general perception of most consumers of TV news is that Fox News Channel established itself as a major source of information reported through a more conservative lens, and that MSNBC, which struggled to find its voice for a number of years, ultimately landed as the liberal counterpoint to Fox News. And, that is largely true.
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However, Roger Ailes started in the cable television industry at NBC, not at Fox. As the first President of NBC Cable, I had led the effort back in 1989 to establish CNBC. Four years later we were looking to bring in a new president of the business network CNBC to replace the then-head of the network. Jack Welch and Bob Wright, the CEO’s of GE and NBC respectively at the time, the parents of CNBC, thought Roger Ailes might be an interesting choice. I was given the assignment to pitch Ailes on why becoming involved with NBC Cable’s initiatives would be a major opportunity for him. I spent a couple of months in continuous conversation with Roger, outlining all the ways we could build a powerhouse in the cable industry. However, I found after a while that as a business channel CNBC was not that enticing a lure for Roger. Yet, as I described a new channel we would soon be launching that was to emerge from a set of deals we had recently struck with the nation’s cable operators, he became increasingly intrigued.
The name of that channel was to be America’s Talking. I explained to Roger that in growing our cable networks with the support of the cable industry we could not really take on CNN—the industries flagship news channel at the time, but that we could attempt to capture that flag down the road. In the meantime, I explained to him that we could certainly do talk about the news and create a channel of commentary and analysis about news and political events. Being able to have a 24-hour network media canvas on which to paint his own ideas caught Roger’s imagination. He finally agreed to come on board as President of CNBC and America’s Talking.
Well, as it turned out, NBC and Ailes did not make for such a happy marriage. Roger was constantly feuding with other executives in the company. As he focused on the competitive ratings battles and efforts to attract a new audience, he also spent an inordinate amount of time seemingly often looking to target or go to war with various people within NBC’s own family. More importantly, America’s Talking was not growing very quickly under Ailes and a number of us felt we had developed a channel that had big enough distribution into millions of homes in the cable industry that we were squandering a major opportunity in not accelerating its growth.
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“Being able to have a 24-hour network media canvas on which to paint his own ideas caught Roger’s imagination.”
So I and Andy Lack, both then and now the very creative President of NBC News, hatched a plan. We knew that Bill Gates and Microsoft at the time were fascinated by the media industry and were looking to make their way into it. We thought we could pitch Gates on the idea of buying in and funding the expansion of the America’s Talking cable channel as a way of becoming a partner in the digital future of NBC News and all our cable news properties. We pitched him on rebranding America’s Talking as the Microsoft/NBC or MSNBC channel; one that would offer a new form of news network ― with a complimentary internet site where NBC News would be the programming source to fuel all of it. Andy and I knew that Welch and Wright would support such a deal, and, that very importantly, it would mean Ailes’ new cable channel would no longer be his to manage or to turn into the talk and commentary network he had envisioned. Our plan had a real attraction to it - upgrade the network with a major new media and financial partner, and find a good reason for Roger and his internal wars to go.
We completed the Microsoft deal and the stage was set for Roger to leave the company (along with some other issues that gave the final push). But unlike Roger’s departure from Fox News which held him to a non-compete, he left NBC with no handcuffs on him at all. The rest is known media history. News Corporation Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch swooped Roger up, Fox News was created, and politics in this country has never been the same since.
I have often wondered what the last 15 years of American politics would have been like if the settlement with Roger when he left NBC had included some kind of non-compete and Murdoch had been forced to launch Fox News with someone else at the helm… someone who was not the explosive power Roger turned out to be.
After having left NBC and having been CEO of TiVo for over a decade, I thought “replaying” this critical piece of television history was important to clearly set forth, as we make sense of the life and death of Roger Ailes. Yes, MSNBC begot Fox News.
Mr. Rogers was the first President of NBC Cable and former President and CEO of TiVo and now is Executive Chairman of WinView Games. |
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