- Fox News president Jay Wallace said North Korean propaganda has more subtlety than Lou Dobbs.
- Wallace’s remarks about Dobbs were pointed out in a court filing by Dominion Voting Systems.
- It highlighted dissent inside Fox at its reporting on claims the 2020 election was taken.
Fox News president Jay Wallace said he believed North Korean propaganda was more subtle than the output of now-fired Fox Business host Lou Dobbs, per a brand-new court filing.
Wallace said in September 2020 that “the North Koreans do a more nuanced show” than Dobbs, per a filing from Dominion Voting Systems launched on Thursday.
North Korea is understood for its stable stream of loud, emphatic propaganda that is carefully managed by Kim Jong Un’s federal government.
Dobbs was understood for having actually gone on his Fox Business Network program, “Lou Dobbs Tonight,” to press the unwarranted claim that there was extensive citizen scams that rigged the 2020 election versus previous President Donald Trump. Dobbs’ program was canceled in February 2021.
Wallace was seen specifying in a different remark in August 2021 that Fox “can barely contain Dobbs” — among previous President Donald Trump’s staunchest allies, per Dominion’s filing.
Fox Business is a various part of the Fox media empire to Fox News, significance Wallace was grumbling about a department of the business different to his own.
His remarks included in a 200-page movement that was launched on Thursday, looking for summary judgement in its libel match versus Fox.
This filing became part of Dominion Voting Systems’ libel claim versus Fox News. It consists of deposition excerpts and texts from Fox News figures like Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity, and the business’s owner, Rupert Murdoch. It did not offer an exact source for the quotes from Wallace.
Dominion Voting Systems has actually declared that Fox maligned it by pressing an incorrect conspiracy theory that it controlled election outcomes. The voting-technology business is requesting for $1.6 billion in damages.
Dominion in its Thursday filing likewise pointed out other remarks from Fox figures, consisting of an April 2021 remark from Fox executive Porter Berry that branded Dobbs as “crazy.”
Carlson, the questionable Fox News host, likewise called Dobbs “reckless” in a July 2021 remark, per Dominion’s filing.
Dobbs did not instantly react to an ask for remark from Insider. However, a Fox representative informed Insider the business’s view is that Dominion has “mischaracterized the record” and “cherry-picked quotes” in its court filing.
In a declaration to Insider, Fox identified the filing as “noise and confusion generated by Dominion” however argued that “the core of this case remains about freedom of the press and freedom of speech, which are fundamental rights afforded by the Constitution and protected by New York Times v. Sullivan,” the popular Supreme-Court choice on media flexibility.
Lawyers for Dominion Voting Systems did not instantly react to Insider’s ask for remark.
