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NPR reports:
The November 2020 email from an anguished Fox News news producer to colleagues sent up a flare amid a fusillade of false claims. The producer warned: Fox cannot let host Jeanine Pirro back on the air. She is pulling conspiracy theories from dark corners of the Web to justify then-President Donald Trump’s lies that the election had been stolen from him.
The existence of the email, confirmed by two people with direct knowledge of it, is first publicly disclosed by NPR in this story. Fox News declined comment.
The producer’s email is among the voluminous correspondence acquired by Dominion’s attorneys as part of its discovery of evidence in a $1.6 billion defamation suit it filed against Fox News and its parent company.
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Fox producer’s warning against Jeanine Pirro surfaces in Dominion defamation suit https://t.co/4cV6CnbXSa
— NPR Politics (@nprpolitics) September 6, 2022
Pirro is at the heart of legal clashes between Fox and Dominion in the defamation suit.
“I don’t know how anything could be more newsworthy than the president of the United States making the allegation” of election fraud, Fox’s outside atty, Dan Webb, tells me.
— David Folkenflik (@davidfolkenflik) September 6, 2022
Maria Bartiromo of Fox Biz’s role amplifying election fraud conspiracies was all the more notable because she is a news anchor, ostensibly a straight ahead journalist, not an opinion host.
For 1st time, Fox would not comment when asked if Bartiromo was still a news anchor.
— David Folkenflik (@davidfolkenflik) September 6, 2022
Seven current and former Fox News journalists tell me that top executives acquiesced in their stars’ desperate embrace of Trump’s election lies to woo back viewers. (Fox News denies this.)
The Fox call of Arizona for Biden on election night drove away millions of Trump fans.
— David Folkenflik (@davidfolkenflik) September 6, 2022