Lachlan Murdoch Says Fox News Reports “Without Fear Or Favor” And “Noise” Over Dominion Suit Reflects “Polarized Society” Not Law

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Lachlan Murdoch, in his first public comments about a defamation lawsuit against Fox News that’s been grabbing headlines, said he believes the network is even handed and the “noise” is more reflective of the nation’s divided politics than anything else. “It think fundamentally, what I would say about it, is [that] a news organization has an obligation and it is an obligation to report the news fulsomely, wholesomely and without fear or favor.

And that is what Fox News has always done and will always do,” he said at a Morgan Stanley investors conference Thursday. “And I think a lot of the noise is not about law … it is really about politics about.

And that’s unfortunately more reflective of this sort of polarized society we live in today.” His comments come several days after a flood of legal filings including incendiary emails and texts and deposition transcripts were released as part of a $1.6 billion defamation suit against Fox News by Dominion Voting Systems.

Dominion alleges that Fox News executives and hosts knowingly spread false information about Dominion which makes electronic voting machines helping to tip the election to Joe Biden, damaging the company.