Make Fox News’ Board Pay a Price for the Network’s Big Lies
The mismanagement and neglect by board members overseeing Fox News, revealed in a flood of texts, emails and sworn depositions, is likely to lead to shareholder lawsuits that could topple some Fox News insiders from their lucrative perches.
The latest trove has one top executive, whose contract was not renewed in retribution, calling the network’s jockeying over what to do about the former president’s lies an “existential” crisis for journalism.
The revelations reveal lots of culpability at the top, but will anyone be held accountable for ignoring what they knew to be true—that spreading lies had become the network’s business model?