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Bill O'Reilly here, and I'm warming up. Standby for the O'Reilly Update Morning Edition,
but first. On this Tuesday, the billion-dollar lawsuit the Dominion Voting Machine Company has filed against Fox News
is far more complicated than the corporate media has reported. Last week, Dominion put out its
allegations in a damning form, but always remember, accusations must be cross-examined to have any
validity. The press pretty much ignores that. The case hinges on fallacious opinions that said the
presidential election of 2020 was fraudulent. Are those opinions defamatory? That's a high
standard for the media, which embraced the phony Russian collusion situation, and then ran wild with
the theory that President Trump directly caused the crimes on January 6, 2021. In both cases,
most of the corporate media wrote and broadcast opinions that lacked evidence, and finally
were proved to be wrong. Donald Trump was badly damaged by the misreporting, but he would lose
if he sued because he could not prove actual malice, a legal standard. The Fox News defense is
similar. It puts forth that it broadcasts false opinions because that's what its audience
wanted to hear. It's not about malice, FNC lawyers say it's about free expression, even if it's not
based on facts. The trial is set to begin in April, but Fox News has already lost in the
court of public opinion because it did not operate in an honest way. Back after this.
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