Fox Fallout & Lemon’s Lumps

The buzziest news out of CNN C.E.O. Chris Licht’s morning meeting was his condemnation of Don Lemon’s foolish and controversial and ageist comments about women.
The buzziest news out of CNN C.E.O. Chris Licht’s morning meeting was his condemnation of Don Lemon’s foolish and controversial and ageist comments about women. Photo: Mike Pont/Getty Images for Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights
Dylan Byers
February 17, 2023

For anyone not yet inured to the perfidies of the Fox News Channel—the partisan shilling, the conspiracy peddling, the fear-mongering, etcetera—the revelations contained in this week’s Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit against the network may have felt colossal. Contained in a nearly 200-page suit were troves of evidence—emails, texts, etcetera—indicating that the network’s top executives, producers, and talent knew their guests were hawking false claims about election fraud, but that they let them hawk away regardless, all in the interest, according to Dominion’s lawsuit, of maintaining Fox News’ position as the most preeminent and lucrative conservative media operation in the business.