Online Public Relations Thoughts

Fox News is invoking the First Amendment in a lawsuit brought against it for defamation. Its news anchors privately admitted that Trump had lost the election while they publicly peddled the "Big Lie" on the air that he had won.  Fox claims protected speech.  The lawsuit alleges transmission of knowing falsehoods.  Legal experts say Dominion Voting Systems has uncovered a smoking gun.  If Fox loses the case, it will be historic because the law protects news organizations thoroughly.  And, it should.  There is no excuse for reporters to knowingly write or speak lies. In Fox's case, it was apparently a business decision to hang on to its millions of conservative viewers.  It had nothing to do with facts.  That is a distortion of the meaning and intent of the First Amendment and deserving of punishment.