Murdoch has needed to dig deep to keep away from an embarrassing trial about Fox News lies
It’s an enormous chunk of Rupert Murdoch’s cash. $787.5 million. That's how a lot he needed to pay a voting machine firm it's possible you'll by no means have heard of to stop this landmark case from going to trial.
It was to be a trial about reality, about lies, about an election and about America's most influential and most watched cable information community.The jury had been chosen. The court docket was poised. The decide was prepared. The opening statements written. And then a delay. Several hours of silence. We now know a settlement was being finalised.The hypothesis, certainly the logic, had all the time been that Mr Murdoch wouldn't need this to go to trial. But wow did he go away it till the final second to settle.
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