The Corsair
Fox is not a News Company
Fox is a lot of things, but it cannot be properly construed under the category of News. When it came to pushing false claims about the 2020 election, Rupert Murdoch himself said, according to unsealed court records, that Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham “went too far.” He also admitted, under oath, that Biden won the election. I’m not sure even the 2023 Presidential candidates are allowed to concede the 2020 election to Biden, which makes it nearly impossible for any of them to beat Trump.
While it is up to the courts to decide whether or not Fox News hosts ultimately employed “actual malice” in their false election claims, it certainly looks like it. From Brian Stelter in Vanity Fair:
But there is nothing routine about this moment in Fox News history. Every new legal filing in Dominion’s $1.6 billion defamation suit sets off a wave of coverage, criticism, and mockery, from the front page of The New York Times to the cold open of Saturday Night Live. More revelations came Tuesday, including Tucker Carlson saying of Donald Trump, “I hate him passionately,” and Rupert Murdoch saying “I hate our Decision Desk people”—the ones who accurately projected that Joe Biden had beat Trump.
From a corporate HR standpoint, some of the most destabilizing texts show Fox’s most powerful opinion hosts—Carlson, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham—dumping on their colleagues on the “news” side. New court filings show the opinion hosts derided numerous Fox reporters by name. “We thought they hated us,” one correspondent said, “but now we know it in their own words.”
And then there is the whole Kevin McCarthy-Tucker Carlson whitewashing of the insurrection. Even Minority Leader Mitch McConnell pushed back yesterday against Tucker Carlson’s characterization that as the January 6th insurrection was "mostly peaceful chaos." Murdoch and his company seems to have learned nothing from this whole embarassing episode.
"For the news startup Rest of World, covering how technology is affecting those non-US countries is the point. The site launched as a nonprofit in the spring of 2020 and gets most of its funding from Sophie Schmidt, whose father, Eric, is the billionaire former chairman and CEO of Google. Schmidt has said that her intention was to bring attention to parts of the world that are rarely present in technology coverage. " (CJR)
"It is a dramatic new chapter in the evolving public understanding of Putin’s vast and clandestine fortune. Putin’s modest official income is ‘well known,’ states the indictment, ‘but in fact [Putin] has enormous assets which are managed by persons close to him.’ The charges are the first known criminal proceedings against bankers that involve the dealings of the alleged Putin strawman, a classical cellist named Sergei Roldugin who has been Putin’s friend since childhood. (ICIJ)
“Researchers believe that the stylised representation of an ancient Roman emperor, found inside a two-level tomb near the temple, may be Emperor Claudius, who ruled from the year 41 to 54. “ (Euronews)
MAPSMapped: Which Countries Get the Most Paid Vacation Days? (Visual Capitalist)
"Like Microsoft and Google, Slack owner Salesforce is shoving an AI chatbot into its workplace software to automatically write simple messages and summarize meetings." (Emma Roth/The Verge)