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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Business
Chris McGreal

Is Dominion’s $1.6bn defamation lawsuit a death blow for Murdoch and Fox News?

Rupert Murdoch, center, stands with sons Lachlan and James Murdoch.
Rupert Murdoch, center, stands with sons Lachlan and James Murdoch. Photograph: Dan Steinberg/AP

Rupert Murdoch rarely has to answer for the alternative realities presented by his hugely profitable US cable network, Fox News.

Its conspiratorial claims of a parade of cover ups from the 2012 Benghazi attack to the climate crisis and Covid-19 have been lapped up by Fox viewers and scorned by much of the rest of America, and then the world moved on. But on Tuesday, the 91-year-old billionaire media mogul will be obliged to answer difficult questions under oath about the inner workings of Fox.

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