Fox News isn't news, and it shouldn't be treated as such. Let's call it what it is: a right-wing variety show where ratings trump truth.
That's certainly not a revelation to the millions of Americans who've been horrified by the network's lack of journalistic integrity or to folks who are resigned to the dystopian nightmare that democracy will fall before Tucker Carlson's ratings do. But the Dominion Voting System's $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News has exposed a vulnerability at the heart of Rupert Murdoch's media empire — and intensified the pressure on his conservative crown jewel to alter its destructive course.
Dominion has hit Fox where it hurts, and I'm not referring to its moral compass. As News Corp. executive chairman Murdoch himself said in a deposition, the central factor in his decision-making "is not red or blue. It is green." In other words, not politics, per se, but money, profit and ratings are the bedrock of Fox's coverage. If a fact makes its way into the mix, so be it.
