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Editorial: Dominion case proves that Murdochs’ Fox News isn’t news – it’s a joke

In spite of the media empire’s refusal to apologise to Dominion Voting Systems over false claims on their lie-peddling news channel, their humiliation is total

Lachlan Murdoch, Rupert Murdoch and James Murdoch: Fox’s refusal to apologise was also an admission of defeat. Picture: Jason LaVeris/FilmMagic

The defamation case brought by Dominion Voting Systems against Fox News was about many things, and free speech was not one of them. The confrontation between a manufacturer of electronic voting machines, with annual revenue of $100 million, and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire, with revenue last year of $14 billion, was not about journalism, or the right to have a contrary or even an idiotic opinion, or that most sanctimonious of media high horses, the ...