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Fox News agreed to pay a $12 million settlement to former Tucker Carlson producer Abby Grossberg. Abby Grossberg filed lawsuits against the outlet in March after she left the company. Grossberg filed a lawsuit alleging the company’s legal team urged her to answer “I don’t know” to questions in the company’s lawsuit with Dominion voting machines. Tucker Carlson was fired from Fox News shortly after Grossberg filed her lawsuits. Grossberg’s lawsuit was originally filed in the Delaware Superior Court where the Dominion case was settled for $787 million. The New York Times reported: Fox News has agreed to pay $12...

The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh shared internal documents Thursday from Fox News employees, revealing that Fox Corp. is encouraging its employees to support LGBTQ+ organizations during Pride Month. According to The Daily Wire, screenshots of the Fox employee portal show the company encouraging its employees to consider donating to organizations such as the Los Angeles LGBT Center, the Trevor Project and the Ali Forney Center.

Our friends at American Sunrise on Real America’s Voice broke a big story on Wednesday morning. Ed Henry and Karyn Turk from RAV’s popular morning show reported on a new rule at FOX News – NEVER SAY “TUCKER!” ..... Snip..... Ed Henry: you fire tucker, you kind of thumb your nose at your viewers on Election Night 2020. Look at the gateway pundit. Our friends, who we normally have on Mondays, obviously, we had a holiday this week. It’s official. So the Gateway Pundit now has more daily page views than Fox News primetime shows. Karen, have nightly viewers. Karyn...

Since the agreement was announced FOX News fired Tucker Carlson, lost at least half of its audience, and watched left-wing publications leak out Tucker Carlson videos that were captured during discovery in the lawsuit. Now FOX News is threatening to kill the deal after the Tucker Carlson videos were released to the public. The Daily Mail reported: [Fox News demanded that Dominion Voting Systems conduct an internal investigation to determine whether it was responsible for the leak of damning text messages sent by former anchor Tucker Carlson. Recently, Fox wrote Dominion saying evidence documents it provided to the company during...

@daveweigel Unexpected statement from Paul Ryan: "It is difficult to conceive of a more anti-democratic and anti-conservative act than a federal intervention to overturn the results of state-certified elections and disenfranchise millions of Americans." More...

"The Trump campaign had ample opportunity to challenge election results, and those efforts failed from lack of evidence. The legal process was exhausted, and the results were decisively confirmed. The Department of Justice, too, found no basis for overturning the result."

Under capitalism, ownership brings control, and Fox News has a new corporate parent that began trading yesterday on NASDAQ.  There are reasons for conservatives to be deeply concerned. Sarah Ellison and Paul Farhi write at the Washington Post: Fox’s parent company is undergoing a generational change — one that produced another, perhaps more subtle sign of independence from the president. On Tuesday, Fox Corp. began public trading as the new parent of Fox News, Fox Entertainment and Fox Sports; the company is the result of 21st Century Fox’s sale of its film and television assets to Disney Corp. The...

The White House escalated its offensive against Fox News on Sunday by urging other news organizations to stop "following Fox" and instead join the administration's attempt to marginalize the channel. White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel told CNN that President Obama does not want "the CNNs and the others in the world [to] basically be led in following Fox." Obama senior adviser David Axelrod went further by calling on media outlets to join the administration in declaring that Fox is "not a news organization." "Other news organizations like yours ought not to treat them that way," Axelrod counseled ABC's...