"Fox News feared losing viewers by airing truth about election, documents showAs a result, he added, Fox should not “ever give viewers a reason to turn us off. Every topic and guest must perform.”"
‘Everything at stake here,’ billionaire founder Rupert Murdoch wrote to a top executive in November 2020, part of a cache of internal communications revealed in a $1.6 billion defamation suit."
"Newly released messages show Fox executives fretting that month over an uncomfortable revelation: that if they told their audience the truth about the election, it could destroy their business model."
"In another message, Ron Mitchell, the network executive in charge of prime-time programming and analytics, warned that Newsmax’s brand of “conspiratorial reporting might be exactly what the disgruntled [Fox News Channel] viewer is looking for.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/02/17/fox-news-dominion-ratings-fear/
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