Disinforming, Like FOX

 FOX NEWS made what may eventually become an expensive mistake when it cablecast not only people who falsely claimed the election was stolen from Trump, but took matters a step further, perhaps a step too far, by accusing the Dominion voting machine company of having cooperated in by orchestrating the theft.That is slander, and Dominion intends to prove so in a one point six billion dollar lawsuit against FOX, alleging that the network cost Dominion millions of dollars in revenue. FOX has all kinds of defenses, all fatuous. It stands solidly behind its reporting integrity, blah blah. No, the slander was not presented as mere opinion, but as rock solid fact, evidence soon to follow. It never followed.Dominion is not famous, its reputation is not public property, to be kicked around like an abused tin can, immune to defamation. And since FOX on several occasions stated that claims of criminality made against Dominion on FOX were false, rather than protect against exposure to legal liability as the network evidently intended, actually confirmed the fact that it cablecast false, slanderous claims against Dominion. Conservative media in America are generally a perfect reflection of the conservative community in America.There is no end to its corruption, dishonesty, and  immorality. The sexual abuse scandal, involving Bill O'Reilly, roger Ailes, and a few other FOX big shots, proves the immorality. Never to be forgotten are the more than thirty thousand lies told by Donald Trump while in office, all documented, and fully supported by conservative talk radio, FOX news, and tens of millions of conservative Republicans, many of them evangelical Christians. Immoral, dishonest, all of the above. The spread of deliberate disinformation is a phenomenon usually associated with discredited fringe internet sources, seeker of sensational responses. FOX is indisputable mainstream media, with a large following among conservatives. likewise Rush Limbaugh, before his death. Still, throughout the entire Trump administration media sources of such large followings embraced Trump's lies, especially the big lie about the election being stolen, and repeated it constantly, without giving the slightest indication of its falsehood. When the media stops reporting the news and transforms itself into a political propaganda machine, as nearly conservative media has done, there is cause for concern.