I don't think it really affected the stock price much. The notion that the Dominion and its private equity owners were our champions fighting for justice and they betrayed us is ludicrous. They just wanted some good Sean Hannity on the stand and Merck on the stand, which would have been disastrous. I mean, the internal workings of Fox News are like genuinely shocking and appalling to anybody who works and news. You get justice in the next world and this world, you have the law.
To make sense of a turbulent and important week in media, we turn to Ben Smith who was the founding Editor in Chief of Buzzfeed News (2012 to 2020) and the former New York Times media critic (from 2020 to 2022). On the agenda: the shuttering of Buzzfeed News, the meaning of Murdoch's settlement with Dominion and what Ben is working on these days, including his news organization Semafor and his forthcoming book, Traffic.
Since we taped Kara got her blue check (against her wishes!) when Twitter re-verified some accounts over the weekend.
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