(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Fighting Lies Takes Elbow Grease: Celebrating Bannon in Prison [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2024-07-01 Fighting lies takes elbow grease and patience. That does not mean it cannot be done! As we celebrate Steve Bannon Is Reporting to Prison Day (will update the diary when that happens), let’s take a look at six other victories for the truth. 1. FOX paid Dominion 787.5 million for its lies. David Bauder, Randall Chase, and Geoff Mulvihill, Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Fox News agreed Tuesday to pay Dominion Voting Systems nearly $800 million to avert a trial in the voting machine company’s lawsuit that would have exposed how the network promoted lies about the 2020 presidential election. The stunning settlement emerged just as opening statements were supposed to begin, abruptly ending a case that had embarrassed Fox News over several months and raised the possibility that network founder Rupert Murdoch and stars such as Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity would have to testify publicly. “The truth matters. Lies have consequences,” Dominion lawyer Justin Nelson told reporters outside a Delaware courthouse after Superior Court Judge Eric Davis announced the deal.v 2. A few days later, FOX fired Tucker Carlson, its big star at the time. Now, Carlson was not fined, and he is not in prison. But he has lost much of his audience and hence much of his power. From Politico (Matt Schaffer) For Tucker Carlson, it has to be the ultimate good-news, bad-news moment: A major publishing house has canceled a prominent political journalist’s upcoming biography of the far-right media figure. The good news, for Carlson partisans, is that the book in question — Hated by All the Right People: Tucker Carlson and the Unravelling of the Conservative Mind, by Jason Zengerle — was likely to be a less-than-fawning look at the former Fox host’s journey from establishmentarian to conspiracy theorist. The bad news, though, is that the cancellation stems at least in part from the belief that Carlson, once the biggest name on cable, no longer has the kind of cultural footprint to warrant a pricey, complicated book by a top-shelf writer. According to several sources in the publishing industry who have followed the project, a combination of delays and the changes in Carlson’s once dominant media presence caused a loss of enthusiasm on the part of a publishing house going through its own internal tumult. 3. Ronna McDaniel was fired before she could start Oliver Darcy CNN New York CNN — Only 80 hours elapsed between NBC News announcing Ronna McDaniel as a paid contributor and the network ousting her from that very role. But for the leadership at NBC Universal News Group, those were 80 painful hours. On Tuesday evening, following another full day in which the media rumor mill churned at warp speed, NBCU News Group boss Cesar Conde sent staff a memo, notifying his troops that he had reversed his decision to welcome the former Republican National Committee chair to “the team.” “After listening to the legitimate concerns of many of you, I have decided that Ronna McDaniel will not be an NBC News contributor,” Conde said, adding that he wanted to “personally apologize to our team members who felt we let them down.”✂️ The objection to McDaniel from both within and outside of NBCU was not that she is a Republican. It wasn’t even that she was a Trump-supporting Republican. No, the objection stemmed from the fact that McDaniel was an active participant in the plot to subvert the 2020 vote. And, in addition to that disgraceful history, she had a lengthy track record smearing NBC News and MSNBC. And she lied all the time. Anyway, I remember how many MSNBC anchors — some quite nervously — went on air and said they would not book the lying McDaniel on their shows. I also wrote to complain, and I complained here and on Xwitter, as I’m sure many here did as well. These complaints make a difference, as they support the anchors and other employees fighting the hiring of a liar. 4. After uproar over ethics, Washington Post and Robert Winnett part ways David Folkenflik NPR Beset by crisis, Washington Post Chief Executive and Publisher Will Lewis' pick to be its lead editor, Robert Winnett, has withdrawn from the job as Lewis seeks to salvage his own tenure at the newspaper. ✂️ The move does not resolve the status of Lewis, who is also contending with allegations in Britain that he helped protect executives at Rupert Murdoch’s tabloids following a massive hacking scandal years ago. Lewis has been named in court documents filed by lawyers for Prince Harry and other victims. 5. Alex Jones and Sandy Hook families. Elizabeth Williamson, New York Times. He owes a whopping 1.4 billion to the Sandy Hook families he has been defaming for years, but squabbling among the families is slowing down the settlement. Their court fight comes nearly a dozen years after 20 children and six educators died in the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., and Mr. Jones’s years of lies that it was a hoax and the families were complicit in the plot. The families suffered such online abuse and death threats that in 2018 relatives of 10 victims sued Mr. Jones for defamation and were awarded more than $1.4 billion in damages in trials in 2022 in Texas and Connecticut. Mr. Jones has nowhere near that money: He and his business have $9 million in assets. His company had declared bankruptcy after the judgments, as Mr. Jones had previously for his personal assets. On June 14, Judge Lopez ordered those personal assets to be liquidated and sold, with the proceeds distributed among the Sandy Hook families. But the judge dismissed a separate bankruptcy for Mr. Jones’s business, Free Speech Systems, encouraging the families to pursue their rights to collect from Mr. Jones in state court, leading to Mr. Heslin’s and Ms. Lewis’s filing. The dismissal came after the Connecticut side rejected a multiyear potential settlement with Mr. Jones that would have paid out more money to the families, but which they said couldn’t be trusted. The Texas families were happy with the judge’s dismissal, but the Connecticut families said it would create a free-for-all to file separate claims for money from Mr. Jones’s business, which is now the issue before Judge Lopez. At any rate, Infowars is suffering, if not put out of our misery. 6. Rudy Giuliani is on the hook for defamation Alanna Dirkman Richer Associated Press A criminal trial awaits Rudy Giuliani in Georgia. He is an alleged unnamed co-conspirator in a federal indictment against Donald Trump. And now he’s been ordered to pay a sum he surely cannot afford. The $148 million verdict in a defamation case brought by two former Georgia election workers marks a new low point for the man once lauded as “America’s mayor,” whose advocacy of Donald Trump’s false election claims has led to criminal charges and hefty legal bills. And the jury’s verdict could be a troubling sign for Giuliani as he gears up to defend himself against charges in Georgia that could land him behind bars. “It’s like everything is crashing down on him,” said Nick Akerman, a New York attorney who briefly worked alongside Giuliani in the federal prosecutors’ office there. “He hasn’t come to grips with what he has done to his life. He has completely destroyed himself.” How to help the truth? Repeat it a lot. Repetition is good! Repetition is good! Also, push back on the lies. Push back on liars, when companies hire them. Don’t reward them. We have power, but power only works when we use it. Also, pushing back takes determination. It’s a marathon. We are not the only country that will be happy that Bannon is off the airwaves for a while. x Steve Bannon has been sticking his nose into Canadian politics by supporting right-wing nutjobs up here. Therefore, it brings me great joy to celebrate Canada Day on July 1st by watching that fucking Nazi finally go to prison. pic.twitter.com/NFQwyRuXiN — cαηα∂α нαтεs тя☭мρ (@Trump_Detester) June 30, 2024 Please, include examples and suggestions below! 🐦 I do a lot of other writing. A recent offering: the Crow Nickels (chronicles), a trilogy about crows who want to save birdkind from extinction: Hunters of the Feather, Scavengers of Mind and Familiars of the Flock (They’re really good! They’re really cheap! Buy and review or rate positively! And Hunters is also available on Audible!) Other stories, based on Jane Austen novels — such as The Meryton Murders — and others based on history and Greek mythology, such as Jocasta: The Mother-Wife of Oedipus, can be found here. All titles are available through Kindle Unlimited, but I only get paid if you turn the pages. [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/7/1/2249846/-Fighting-Lies-Takes-Elbow-Grease-Celebrating-Bannon-in-Prison?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/