{"id":1907327,"date":"2023-03-30T14:28:33","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T18:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/debra-j-saunders-dont-sue-the-messenger\/"},"modified":"2023-03-30T14:29:35","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T18:29:35","slug":"debra-j-saunders-dont-sue-the-messenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/debra-j-saunders-dont-sue-the-messenger\/","title":{"rendered":"Debra J. Saunders: Don&#8217;t Sue the Messenger"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdebra-j-saunders-dont-sue-the-messenger%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1907327&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-content-ads-inserted=\"true\">\n<p>Dominion Voting Systems has sued Fox News for defamation over their coverage of the 2020 election. Typically, other news organizations would come together with Fox to fight a $1.6 billion lawsuit that threatens their First Amendment rights. However, that is not the case since Fox is a conservative network that beats the ratings of CNN and MSNBC. Dominion has enjoyed favorable news coverage about the legal battle, which is detrimental to the news industry.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, Dominion has a legal team that knows how to make news. Last month, the team released a 179-page brief that included redactions, featuring texts and other communications exchanged as Fox News Founder Rupert Murdoch, anchors, and decision-makers realized that Joe Biden had won the election, President Trump had not, and their viewers would not react well to the news.<\/p>\n<p>However, the decision by Dominion&#8217;s to sue the network for its reporting is not good for journalism. The lawsuit argues that &#8220;Fox is deemed the &#8216;publisher&#8217; of every statement those guests aired against Dominion,&#8221; which is absurd. Fox talent challenged unfounded allegations made by election deniers. Moreover, if this argument by Dominion prevails, it will have a chilling effect on journalism, especially in the coverage of presidential elections, providing editors with an excuse to ignore stories.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News reported on charges made by a sitting president, which makes the allegations newsworthy and must be reported regardless of whether they are true or false, as the network\u2019s preliminary statement argued.<\/p>\n<p>The trial is set to begin on April 17 in Delaware, and according to Fox&#8217;s attorney, Erin Murphy, the real source of Dominion&#8217;s complaint lies with the allegations made by the then-President of the United States and the lawyers representing him. The network&#8217;s attorney said that it would be a different case for Dominion to sue the individuals who made defamatory statements.<\/p>\n<p>It is important to note that Dominion suing the network for its reporting is not the right move. Debra J. Saunders warns that suing the messenger is a dangerous precedent that could negatively impact journalism. Debra is a fellow at the Discovery Institute&#8217;s Chapman Center for Citizen Leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Contact Debra at dsaunders@discovery.org<\/p>\n<p itemprop=\"imageCaption\"><small>Photo credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/goto\/1561757\/\" rel=\"external noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael_Luenen<\/a> at Pixabay<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dominion Voting Systems is suing Fox News for defamation over the network&#8217;s 2020 election coverage. Under normal circumstances, other news organizations would circle the wagons with Fox to fight against a $1.6 billion lawsuit that threatens to chill their First Amendment pursuits. But Fox News is conservative \u2014 and a ratings giant that beats the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1907328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[15621,4894,11324,15622,7170],"class_list":["post-1907327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-debra","tag-dont","tag-messenger","tag-saunders","tag-sue"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1907327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1907327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1907328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1907327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1907327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1907327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}