Watch for cable-news outfits to decommission their loose-cannon hosts — not to squelch free speech but to avoid wrecking revenue. Choose your plan ArrowRight That’s one takeaway from the Dominion Voting Systems’ now-settled defamation lawsuit against Fox News over its promotion of 2020 “stolen election” allegations. Fox Business Network dumped Dobbs and his program in February 2021, just a day after Smartmatic, another voting-machine company, filed a separate defamation lawsuit (which is still pending). Fox News didn’t want to go to court to find out if the defamation standard would apply. In recent days, another pugnacious Fox News host, Dan Bongino, parted ways with the channel.

Source: Fox News April 22, 2023 07:16 UTC