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Fox News's Sunday morning show MediaBuzz which highlights the week's biggest news from the media world chose to ignore the dominant story in the cable news world Hosted by Howard Kurtz, this Sunday's edition of the hour-long program opted not to cover the bombshell revelations involving Fox News and many of its personalities and executives which were made public in a newly-unsealed filing from the Dominion voting systems $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against the network.

More than 60 cross-party MPs have written to the Sun's editor, Victoria Newton, to demand an apology and action taken against Jeremy Clarkson for a column where he said the Duchess of Sussex should be paraded through the streets naked.In a letter, they said Meghan had received credible threats to her life and that columns such as Clarkson's contributed to an unacceptable climate of hatred and violence.

Newsmax, the niche conservative news channel that has long played David to Fox News's Goliath, has seized on Tucker Carlson's shock dismissal from its rival network and declared itself the true TV home for right-wing Americans.So far, the strategy is showing some promise.Viewership of Newsmax remains far below that of Fox News.

Reunions can be awkward.Former President Donald J. Trump finally returned this week to his old stomping ground, Fox News, after several months away.The chilly reception from some of his one-time media allies underscored his uneasy place at the moment in Republican politics.Yes, Sean Hannity, the Fox News anchor who conducted the interview, listened patiently as Mr. Trump reeled off his usual talking points about the fake news media and horrible Democrats.

Russell Brand railed against MSNBC in an appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher last week, accusing the network of propaganda on the same scale as Fox News.Brand's ruthless criticism of the cable news network came in response to fellow guest John Heilemann, an MSNBC analyst, who called out Fox News over revelations in the Dominion defamation lawsuit.

Republicans have intensified their public criticism of former president Donald Trump following an unexpectedly poor showing in the midterm elections, even as he plans to announce a third White House bid next week.irginia's Republican lieutenant governor, Winsome Earle-Sears, once a vocal supporter of Mr Trump, said voters had sent "a very clear message" on Tuesday that "enough is enough".

Former President Donald Trump's name wasn't on the ballot in the midterms.But his presence - for better and worse - reminded us of a blimp in a circus tent, set to deflate.In his tireless effort to prove his enduring influence as a political kingmaker after refusing to concede following his 2020 loss, Trump endorsed more than 330 candidates, held some 30 rallies and raised millions of dollars.

The hit HBO show Succession is back for its final season.For us viewers, it means Sunday nights just got a lot more entertaining and, I must say, given the plot of the show disturbing.If you haven't seen the show, it centers on the Roys, a dysfunctional family of billionaires jockeying for the reins of their aging father's multinational media and entertainment conglomerate, Waystar RoyCo.

Ron DeSantis has reversed his position on Ukraine, after facing widespread criticism for calling the Russian invasion a territorial dispute.Speaking to Fox Nation in an interview to be broadcast in full on Thursday, the Florida governor and probable contender for the Republican presidential nomination said his territorial dispute remark had been mischaracterised.

Some day, we will all finally tumble to the fact that the only way to survive here in the Age Of Morons is to laugh our way through whatever burlesque Armageddon comes next.And when that day comes, we are all going to look at Thursday, February 16, 2023 as a pivotal point in humanand humor'shistory.

The CNN anchor Don Lemon will return to his regular morning-show role on Wednesday, the network announced late Monday night, after an uproar over a series of comments he made on the air last week about women and aging.In a terse, 75-word memo sent at 10:37 p.m., CNN's chairman, Chris Licht, said Mr. Lemon has agreed to participate in formal training over his on-air behavior and that the network took this situation very seriously.

Former Fox News contributor Jonah Goldberg did not mince words about his former network's current legal problems during a Wednesday morning appearance on CNN This Morning.At issue?Recently released court documents from Dominion Voting System's defamation case against Fox News for alleged injury caused by the network's coverage of the 2020 election and former President Donald Trump's baseless claims that the election was rigged or stolen.

The publisher of the Daily Mail will bring a bid to end legal action against it by a group including the Duke of Sussex, Sir Elton John and Baroness Doreen Lawrence over alleged unlawful information-gathering at its titles.The group of high-profile people, which includes Sir Elton's husband David Furnish and actresses Liz Hurley and Sadie Frost, announced in October they were bringing claims for misuse of private information against Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL).

WILMINGTON, Del.Fox Corporation executives, including Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch, had no direct involvement in what aired on the company's cable news channels, and therefore their company should not be found liable in a $1.6 defamation case, lawyers for Fox argued Wednesday in a Delaware court.The argument was part of Fox's request for a pretrial victory.

As it tries to defend itself against the accusation that it knowingly spread lies about the 2020 presidential election, Fox News has touted some lofty notions about the role of journalism in a democratic society.There will be a lot of noise and confusion generated by Dominion and their opportunistic private equity owners, said a recent company statement, but the core of this case remains about freedom of the press and freedom of speech, which are fundamental rights afforded by the Constitution and protected by New York Times v Sullivan.

Lachlan Murdoch, whose family controls the Fox media empire, issued a full-throated show of support on Thursday for Suzanne Scott, the chief executive of Fox News Media, as the cable channel faces a $1.6 billion defamation suit that has generated a cascade of unflattering revelations about its inner workings.

By Oliver Darcy | CNN Fox News has been exposed like never before.A trove of newly-released text messages and emails have laid bare how the right-wing media giant operated with little regard for fact in the weeks and months following the 2020 presidential election.The correspondence reveals that the network's senior-most executives and highest-profile hosts chose not to disclose what they believed to be the truth of the election out of fear that that the facts would alienate Fox News' audience and throw the highly profitable business into ruin.

Former President Donald Trump tried to call into Fox News after his supporters attacked the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, but the network refused to put him on air, according to court filings from Dominion Voting Systems in its defamation case against the company.The House select committee that investigated the January 6 attack did not know that Trump had made this call, according to a source familiar with the panel's work.

Fox News has been exposed like never before.A trove of newly-released text messages and emails have laid bare how the right-wing media giant operated with little regard for fact in the weeks and months following the 2020 presidential election.The correspondence reveals that the network's senior-most executives and highest-profile hosts chose not to disclose what they believed to be the truth of the election out of fear that that the facts would alienate Fox News' audience and throw the highly profitable business into ruin.

News Corp said Thursday that it would cut 5% of its workforce, or 1,250 jobs, after the media conglomerate fell short of quarterly Wall Street estimates for profit and revenue, hurt by declines across its businesses, including news.The company also said it incurred $6 million in one-time costs associated with its plans to merge with Fox Corp, which Rupert Murdoch, News Corp executive chairman and Fox co-chairman, scrapped in January.

The Wall Street Journal named a new top editor on Monday, saying it would hand control of the newsroom to Emma Tucker, a longtime editor in Britain.She replaces Matthew J. Murray, who has led the paper for the past four years, occasionally clashing with the paper's publisher.The Journal said Mr. Murray would take on a new role, reporting to Robert Thomson, the chief executive of News Corp, The Journal's parent company.

Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, a sulfurous critic of the news media, has all but shunned one-on-one interviews with mainstream political reporters, speaking almost exclusively in recent months with friendly conservative pundits.But he has finally granted an interview to a major establishment newspaper just not one in the United States.

Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes goes through security as she arrives at federal court in San Jose on Sept. 1, 2022.(Jeff Chiu/AP)Elizabeth Holmes, the former Theranos CEO, booked a one-way plane ticket to Mexico that was scheduled to depart just weeks after she was convicted of fraud in January 2022, a recent court filing says.

2023 is the year that journalism and capitalism finally break up.Their relationship has always been fraught, but now it's turned toxic - culminating in a messy dissolution as the retreating market hollows out newsrooms, leaving millions of Americans bereft of local news.Virtually the only for-profit firms still interested in the local news business are the hedge-fund vultures, like Alden Global Capital, that pounce on dying newspapers to profit from their scraps.

Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night's highlights that lets you sleep and lets us get paid to watch comedy.Here are the 50 best movies on Netflix right now.According to a recent deposition, the chairman of Fox News, Rupert Murdoch, tried to make sure former President Donald Trump was given less coverage on the conservative news channel after the 2020 election.

The Duchess of Sussex was quizzed by the Queen about her opinion of Donald Trump the first time the two women met, her husband has revealed in his controversial memoir.Meghan and Harry's momentous encounter with the late monarch was staged at Royal Lodge, the Duke of York's Berkshire home, but the duchess did not recognise Andrew when he joined them and thought the Queen's son was her assistant.

The Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso) has received more than 6,000 complaints over an article written by Jeremy Clarkson about the Duchess of Sussex.The number is almost half the total number of complaints the media regulator received in 2021, a spokesman confirmed.It comes as Clarkson faces a backlash over the article, written in The Sun, from high-profile figures including Nicola Sturgeon, Carol Vorderman, Sir Philip Pullman and London Mayor Sadiq Khan.

Jeremy Clarkson has said he is horrified to have caused so much hurt following backlash over comments he made in a newspaper column about how he hated the Duchess of Sussex.The former Top Gear presenter, 62, said he would be more careful in future after the piece, written in The Sun, attracted criticism from high-profile figures and his own daughter.

Nicola Sturgeon is the latest high-profile figure to criticise Jeremy Clarkson over remarks he made in a national newspaper about Meghan Markle.Scotland's First Minister said she pities the former Top Gear presenter, describing his words as deeply misogynist and downright awful and horrible.Clarkson has faced mounting backlash over the article in The Sun from others including Carol Vorderman, Sir Philip Pullman and London Mayor Sadiq Khan.

Nicola Sturgeon is the latest high-profile figure to criticise Jeremy Clarkson over remarks he made in a national newspaper about the Duchess of Sussex.Scotland's First Minister said she pities the former Top Gear presenter, describing his words as deeply misogynist and downright awful and horrible.

Sunny Balwani, seen arriving at federal court in San Jose in March, is scheduled to be sentenced Wednesday, Dec. 7, on a dozen counts of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit fraud.Sunny Balwani, the one time second-in-command to disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, is set to be sentenced Wednesday as the saga of the blood-testing start-up draws to a close.

Rupert Murdoch paid Boris Johnson 11,559 to fly to a business meeting in the western US.Mr Johnson's register of interests does not reveal who the former prime minister met with, but the media mogul is reported to have bought a large ranch in Montana in December 2021.Another entry in Mr Johnson's register of interests show he was also paid 276,000 for a speech to American insurers barely a month after leaving Downing Street.

Boris Johnson was paid 276,000 for a speech to American insurers barely a month after leaving Downing Street.The former prime minister addressed a conference held by the Council of Insurance Agents and Brokers (CIAB) in October, giving a 30-minute speech and a 45-minute fireside chat at the event in Colorado Springs.