‘Tons of Crazy’: The Inside Story of How Fox Fell for the ‘Big Lie’
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/11/15/big-lie-fox-news-brian-stelter-book-00127133
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/11/15/big-lie-fox-news-brian-stelter-book-00127133
8 Comments
Sharpiemarker@feddit.de · 64 pts · 2y
Fell for? You must mean perpetuated.
LillyPip@lemmy.ca · 27 pts · 2y
Yes, and more lawsuits are coming:
108@kbin.social · 32 pts · 2y
They fell for nothing. This is by design.
Telorand@reddthat.com · 20 pts · 2y
There's even a trail of evidence to prove it.
someguy3@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 2y
Fell for? They knew it wasn't real.
LillyPip@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 2y
Yes, the article goes into some detail on that:
bus_go_fast@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2y
DigitalTraveler42@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 2y
So she's an Italian American in Brooklyn who worked her way through college in the same "betting parkor" her mom worked at, which from further reading sounds like an OTB (off-track betting, they're all over NYC and LI). I'm betting she's been around a bunch of drunk gambling addicts which isn't very mentally healthy, so her moral compass is probably a bit broken, and Trump acting like a mafioso all the time probably deeply appeals to her, because those are the type of people she's grown up around, because NYC is full of Italian Americans acting like they've got mob connections, especially when they don't.
jordanlund@lemmy.one · 2 pts · 2y
Did they really "fall" for it though? Or did they just spread it because it fit their agenda?