LOS ANGELES — Fox News agreed Tuesday to pay $787.5 million to end a defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems, but Fox News viewers wouldn't necessarily have known about the settlement, at least at first.
Whereas major news outlets including The Times began reporting the settlement shortly after 1 p.m., Fox News didn't post its story about the settlement until 2:37 p.m. Pacific.
The article — nine sentences long — spun the settlement as best it could, noting in the second paragraph that "Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric Davis, who was overseeing the defamation lawsuit, praised both parties for their handling of the case."