CNN's Oliver Darcy: Dominion filings prove Fox News knowingly lies to its viewers and “is not at its core a news network”
Darcy: “Top personnel knew that the narrative they were pushing to viewers was not true and we have evidence now that shows they did this in search of profit”
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From the February 27, 2023, edition of CNN's Anderson Cooper 360
OLIVER DARCY (CONTRIBUTOR): [Rupert Murdoch] is behind the scenes saying he does not believe any of Trump's election lies.
ANDERSON COOPER (HOST): And a lot of these Fox hosts behind the scenes didn't seem to believe it either.
DARCY: No, they didn't. And I think this really actually exposes the fact that Fox is not at its core a news network. News networks -- They deliver the truth as they know it to viewers. They do the best job to attain the truth and sometimes it's not perfect but that's what they do. In this case, we know that behind the scenes, top personnel knew that the narrative they were pushing to viewers was not true and we have evidence now that shows they did this in search of profit so they didn't lose viewership to smaller right-wing channels.
COOPER: And they were afraid of losing viewers.
DARCY: Exactly. They did this so they didn't lose viewers to those smaller right wing channels that Trump was promoting after the election was called on Fox for Biden.