The end of the Fox-Dominion circus

Now that Dominion Voting Systems has settled for $787.5 million (£633 million) – less than half the $1.6 billion (£1.3 billion) they were asking for in damages from Fox News – the circus must pack up and move elsewhere. 

There’s nothing the media likes to cover more than itself, and there is no media target juicier than Fox News. Fox was suckered into the vacuum left by Donald Trump that Joe Biden’s presidency was never going to fill. The media needed a villain and Fox, led by Tucker Carlson, scratches that itch for them.  

Fox News did itself no favours by slingshotting back and forth from being the first network to accurately call Arizona for Joe Biden in the 2020 election, sending Team Trump off the deep end. In attempting to make it up to them, and their aggrieved viewers, the network entertained election fictions surrounding Dominion voting machines. This was chum in the water for competitors at the Washington Post, the New York Times, MSNBC and CNN, where obsessing over Fox is a favourite pastime.  

Alas.