The Risk of Overwhelming the Jury in the Sarah Palin v. New York Times Defamation Trial

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There was a tremendous risk Fox News knew that they had a terrible wheelbarrow load full of adverse facts and one thing I'd like to point out is that the last famous defamation trial that we have was Sarah Palin versus New York Times tell the truth. If we're talking about sheer dimensions and volume there is really no comparison to what we just went through tell thetruth.

$787.5 million. (To Dominion Voting Systems, averting a defamation trial that could have been disastrous for the network. The Washington Post’s Erik Wemple explains.)

This episode was produced by Amanda Lewellyn and Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Miles Bryan, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey and Michael Raphael, and hosted by Noel King.

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