Fox surrendered to Dominion Voting Systems without a fight in a libel lawsuit, abandoning the media’s ability to lie about public officials and institutions by claiming an absence of malice. The Supreme Court’s NYT v. Sullivan ruling was a license to lie that never was intended by our Founding Fathers who kept and protected libel laws.
How old are you, 110?? Just kidding. If I still had a TV, I'd probably be watching it as well. It's too expensive to get that stuff online except, perhaps "LIE TO ME"
My health has vastly improved by not watching TV. There was so little I wanted to see plus the fees were absurd. Yes I am aware that you can stream via your computer, but why? If you have never seen or heard of the TV series 'LIE TO ME" I highly recommend it. My health?? I lost 150# and my blood pressure dropped 100 points and I stopped drinking. Watching TV would only bring that back.
All very good points. Even our local station carries liberal water even in its weather reporting (climate change, anybody?) I live next to an extremely blue city. I do not pay to watch Fox News .
Apr 20, 2023·edited Apr 20, 2023Liked by Don Surber
You have so many good pieces, Don... This is the most important to date imho.
"I may be a sucker but I am not that sucker. I never watch Fox."
I haven't watched or listened since 2016 after I voted for Cruz in the primary and immediately realized my mistake.
This 'settlement' made questioning elections forbidden, which, they already were. Now it is weaponized which is what the media wants - now they don't even have to entertain it.
My favorite news source is you. You have replaced over $100 a month newspaper and magazine subscriptions. I like reading your blog early and silently while my Alzheimer's stricken wife is still sleeping while I enjoy my first coffee, like today.
I also am addicted to political humor and history. You have both in your blog.
I'm a lifetime extreme night owl and 75 years old. Since I was in 2nd grade I stealthily watched Jack Paar, Steve Allen, Johnny Carson, and in the morning Dave Garrowsy. Very late in life we cut out all network and switched to YouTube for Greg Gutfield along with massive and thoughtful Planet Tryrus and cutie pie, sharp tongued and tiny Kat Timpf. Greg is now #1 in ratings and King of Late Night. A blog about him would be fascinating.
Oh my. You sound like a pastor I knew long time ago, but since I'm 10 years older than you, prolly not. I majored in Early Childhood Education and learned something about young children who ''get" humor like puns and sarcasm early in life. Indicative of very high IQ. As we all know high IQ and 50 cents will get you a cup of coffee. BTW, I just ordered Kat Timpf's book today. And Tyrus is very wise.
Apr 20, 2023·edited Apr 20, 2023Liked by Don Surber
All of this bullshit is going to continue until we take matters into our own hands. Please understand that this isn’t a call for a ‘Hot’ civil war but if ‘We’ don’t do something and soon nothing is going to change, and worse yet anything we hold dear and near to our hearts and minds today will only be corrupted by tomorrow.
Here is the text of a letter written by Paul Revere describing events leading up to the shot heard round the world at Lexington. He refers to the men who showed up as "the high Sons of Liberty."
I have not watched Fox since 2020. Haven’t watched the network news for several decades. Get my news from Poca man and Citizen Free Press. Watch Christian programming on YouTube. Our country is in a very sad state of affairs!
Kunstler is so good, I wonder how he remains sane. And the Saratoga NY area, where he lives, aside from its splendid tourist accommodations, is an intellectual wasteland.
OH WHAT A TANGLED WEB WE WEAVE WHEN AT FIRST WE TRY TO DECEIVE. Fox should have stuck to its guns (So should have Donald Trump, for that matter). Especially in light of what happened in Arizona with Kari Lake being robbed. I just can't get myself to believe in all these liberal 'coincidences.' The advantages I have in no longer owning a TV. I no longer instantly get PO'd.
This settlement proves to me even more that the deep state uniparty exists and they've conspired to steal our country thru fraud. Ballot harvesting = ballot manufacturing.
Motor voter and more auto registrations give them the database they need to account for the fake votes they feed into the machines.
and the Dominion machine algorithms adjust vote totals for their desired outcomes.
This trial and discovery could have uncovered a lot of the obvious fraud. A settlement sweeps everything under the rug
I too agree - the dominion machines were/are compromised. It is too easy to do. It is also too easy to run perfect tests and then massively rig the real deal - date check logic embedded in the code.
plus Dominion has that whole partial fraction vote going. Vote for trump, .75, Vote for Xiden 1.25.
You know it is rigged when they cannot tell you how many actual votes they got. Whether they are mail-in, in-person or early. Each of those should have a solid number and in Dominion states mostly they dont.
Like the Federal Reserve Bank creating their fiat coupons (dollars) from thin air, lawyers for Fox & Dominion made up a number to sell as a 'settlement.' No money will change hands. Fox & Dominion are equal partners. They work together with their other co-conspirators to destroy Constitutional Law and National Sovereignty of the United States.
Fox News is part of the dog and pony show that is modern politics. They are there to distract from the regime, which Paul Ryan is part and parcel of. They are not going to address the very real problems with the election, but then in a system where you only have two parties and those parties act more like corporations than parties, democracy is also a joke. (If there's one thing I wish Trump acolytes would learn it's that the problems did not start with Trump; you just noticed them then because you cared.)
I watch "Cucker Tarlson," and I have no problem with him disliking Trump. He never fawned over him and I'm Trump ambivalent myself. I voted for him twice. He exposed a lot that a cynic like me had figured out, but the complacent on the right didn't and it woke them up. But he also did a lot that, even if I'm being generous and think he was naive, rather than ascribing some sort of "trojan horse" motive, leave me convinced he hasn't learned a thing and his second term would be pretty much like his first, which is to say a lot of wasted opportunity.
As for "settling" the lawsuit . . . it has still done damage to precedent. We now can hold news outlets responsible for what *guests* say on shows. Good luck with that one MSNBC, CNN, NYTs, etc.
Yes, but the problem was he *listened* to Pence and Sessions, who were clearly part of the game, and as for Paul Ryan and McCain, he held the veto over a lot of things those two wanted but wasn't willing to play hardball with them, just as he told the Republicans in the House to cave and elect McCarthy speaker when they instead showed him how to wield power and get concessions, including lowering the bar to get rid of McCarthy so he remains "honest."
This pattern holds on both sides. I remember complaining about Obamacare to someone who liked Obama and her excuse was "that was all he could get with the medical lobby." My answer was, well, then he should have walked away because he put people in an even worse position, but instead he wanted a "legacy," no matter fake that "legacy" was.
The problem is we make excuses for the people we like. Yes, compromise is vital to getting anything done, but I notice how all the compromises really only affect one group, no matter who is president and which party is in charge.
Apr 20, 2023·edited Apr 20, 2023Liked by Don Surber
"'Shortly after the agreement was reached, Fox said it was “hopeful that our decision to resolve this dispute with Dominion amicably, instead of the acrimony of a divisive trial, allows the country to move forward from these issues."'"
Huh? Clearly, FauxNews thinks itself galactically more important than it is, in reality. It is a little surprising that Christy Wallace hasn't been welcomed back.
"Watch Fox if you want but I will drink Bud Light before I do. And I haven’t had a beer since 1987."
Thanks, but I'll pass. Even if you DO drink a Bud Light, you still won't be drinking beer.
I’m with revmaddog. Don Surber is my favorite news source. However, I appreciate that Fox News & Fox Business exist because without them there would be NO major media outlet representing “our side” even if they are Disney lite and mostly imperfect. I, too, am mostly imperfect.
Imagine Murdoch's long time enemies in Britain (those still alive) who are gloating because Murdoch setting Wapping and sacked the newspaper unions (1980s; and succeeded): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wapping_dispute
On a side note: Microsoft 11 is a DISASTER. Let me count the ways...
Gates is dangerous. I can't tell you how much I despise him. He should not have any authority whatsover to be dispensing advice on how we live our lives (re: eating bugs and taking vaccines).
Gates is 100 more dangerous than Biden and the Nashville Christian Assassin combined. People actually believe his deranged sh*t. And for those who don't, they are more than willing to be bribed.
I open up "My Documents" on Window 13 (hard drive contents transferred last week from the Win7) and there are TWO copies of every documents.
The Win 13 Spellcheck (Biden's Vocabulary Version) has a glossary "opf" about 15 words. For instance, "opf" is an error and there is no "of" in this version of Can'tSpellCheck.
Spellcheck "done." Document closed. File re-opened. None of the corrections that had been made (save a new word, etc.) and then "saved" WERE saved. It is necessary to do it all over again.
THE MOST HORRIFYING DISCOVERY: There is now NO safeguard against mistakes in that the standard "Are you sure you want to..." (delete a document, etc.) safety feature in Win7 has been discontinued/thrown away. THIS IS INSANE.
“Five NFL Players Hit With Gambling Bans” --- NYP 09/22/23 [HUMOR]
“Four Detroit Lions players … have been suspended for violating the NFL’s gambling policy, the league announced Friday,” yesterday (Friday 09/21/23).
Four players were Detroit Lions (Williams, Berryhill, Moore and Cephus).
What didn’t make the paper was which “prop” they had bet on, which happened to be:
“In 2023, which NFL team will have the most number of players suspended for violating the NFL gambling policies?”
The Lions players pooled their money and waged $5,000,000 on … Detroit.
Don Reed (09/22/23)
(Isn't it odd that the word "wages" usually means money earned from hard work, not from gambling; and yet, the word "wagered" in most instances means that the money earned from that hard work is about to be squandered?)
What is even worse, please double check where your documents are saving. Most go into the cloud. Microsoft has a habit of storing everything in the cloud. None of my documents are their business. Plus, if you stop paying their subscription for Word, they lock you out of your documents. Please be careful and good luck.
If you are having issues with corrections, it might be the corrections are going to a document in cloud but not on your local machine. Really, good luck.
On my hard drive, all of my docs are allegedly saved in "Documents stored locally." And what the hell does "pinned" mean? With the mouse, we should be able to "hover" over every single word that these illiterate ape-barbarians create that, if clicked, will provide their definition of what the word means to them. Thanks!
Pinned usually means Windows is asking if you want to 'pin' the document to the start menu/task bar. Pinned usually means there is a short cut for it on the task bar/start menu. Those are the general rules for all windows. I know nothing about win 13 though
No human is perfect, Trump included. All the rest strike me as magnitudes worse in the areas of ethics, morality, honesty, accomplishment, and human compassion. Why should I waste my quality time remaining (QTR) listening to a bunch a bloviators - in and out of government - or having paid off government or news - try to spread their junk around public airwaves. I will vote for The Donald and I ignore all that noise from those air heads fumbling their wares out there.
I find Tucker intellectually interesting and his topics appeal to me far more than anything Hannity or Ingraham put out. At some point, though, he will be asked to leave Fox.
Fox is now CNN lite. Its 2020 election night coverage was awful and biased and it showed how the network no longer had any use for Trump. Yes, since Ailes left the network has abandoned its mission. The Murdoch boys (and their father) and Paul Ryan have seen to that. So other options and competitors will take over. That's what a free market does.
And, yes, American libel laws need to be overhauled. You can lie about a politician if there is an absence of malice. Bloody unlikely.
I was a young journalism student at the time. (1981) I didn't really understand all of the movie then because, being Canadian, I did not understand your libel/slander laws. I watched the movie again last fall on TCM and really had a better understanding of the movie and what took place. Wilford Brimely was a gem in that movie. Still a fav of mine.
I do not watch any tv news broadcast. I'm way too busy watching reruns of "Leave it to Beaver" , "The Donna Reed Show", and "Gunsmoke"
You left out Perry Mason!
You both left out Mannix. And that little racing green Dodge convertible. I'm not old enough to drive a Dodge, but I'd love a little Pontiac Tempest!
Got my driver's license in a Pontiac Tempest.
My first bought-it-myself-from-working, light blue 1963 Tempest. Drove the lug nuts off that little darlin'!
Indeed.
How old are you, 110?? Just kidding. If I still had a TV, I'd probably be watching it as well. It's too expensive to get that stuff online except, perhaps "LIE TO ME"
I find the streaming companies that have no fee.
My health has vastly improved by not watching TV. There was so little I wanted to see plus the fees were absurd. Yes I am aware that you can stream via your computer, but why? If you have never seen or heard of the TV series 'LIE TO ME" I highly recommend it. My health?? I lost 150# and my blood pressure dropped 100 points and I stopped drinking. Watching TV would only bring that back.
Congrats! That is an achievement.
I also subscribe to AcornTV and watch shows when I exercise. Blood pressure is fine, and I don't drink.
25 until I look in the mirror. 😀
I love Hallmark movies. Still watching Christmas ones. LOL.
All very good points. Even our local station carries liberal water even in its weather reporting (climate change, anybody?) I live next to an extremely blue city. I do not pay to watch Fox News .
Climate change happens four times a year. Winter, spring, summer and fall and it has been going on long before man arrived.
Spot on about the weather reporting - if it snows in April, it's climate change and if it doesn't, it's climate change.
You have so many good pieces, Don... This is the most important to date imho.
"I may be a sucker but I am not that sucker. I never watch Fox."
I haven't watched or listened since 2016 after I voted for Cruz in the primary and immediately realized my mistake.
This 'settlement' made questioning elections forbidden, which, they already were. Now it is weaponized which is what the media wants - now they don't even have to entertain it.
My favorite news source is you. You have replaced over $100 a month newspaper and magazine subscriptions. I like reading your blog early and silently while my Alzheimer's stricken wife is still sleeping while I enjoy my first coffee, like today.
I also am addicted to political humor and history. You have both in your blog.
I'm a lifetime extreme night owl and 75 years old. Since I was in 2nd grade I stealthily watched Jack Paar, Steve Allen, Johnny Carson, and in the morning Dave Garrowsy. Very late in life we cut out all network and switched to YouTube for Greg Gutfield along with massive and thoughtful Planet Tryrus and cutie pie, sharp tongued and tiny Kat Timpf. Greg is now #1 in ratings and King of Late Night. A blog about him would be fascinating.
Carry on!
I’m with you revvmaddog, Don is my favorite news source, too.
Oh my. You sound like a pastor I knew long time ago, but since I'm 10 years older than you, prolly not. I majored in Early Childhood Education and learned something about young children who ''get" humor like puns and sarcasm early in life. Indicative of very high IQ. As we all know high IQ and 50 cents will get you a cup of coffee. BTW, I just ordered Kat Timpf's book today. And Tyrus is very wise.
All of this bullshit is going to continue until we take matters into our own hands. Please understand that this isn’t a call for a ‘Hot’ civil war but if ‘We’ don’t do something and soon nothing is going to change, and worse yet anything we hold dear and near to our hearts and minds today will only be corrupted by tomorrow.
Here is the text of a letter written by Paul Revere describing events leading up to the shot heard round the world at Lexington. He refers to the men who showed up as "the high Sons of Liberty."
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/04/19/april-19-1775-a-reminder-of-this-day-in-history-the-battle-of-lexington/
I have not watched Fox since 2020. Haven’t watched the network news for several decades. Get my news from Poca man and Citizen Free Press. Watch Christian programming on YouTube. Our country is in a very sad state of affairs!
You might also find this worth looking at: https://www.emerald.tv/p/why-did-fox-news-settle-for-787-million/comments
Emerald, like Don Surber, is a gem and one of the few talented journalists left
Yes! She is good! So is Kunstler.
Kunstler is so good, I wonder how he remains sane. And the Saratoga NY area, where he lives, aside from its splendid tourist accommodations, is an intellectual wasteland.
OH WHAT A TANGLED WEB WE WEAVE WHEN AT FIRST WE TRY TO DECEIVE. Fox should have stuck to its guns (So should have Donald Trump, for that matter). Especially in light of what happened in Arizona with Kari Lake being robbed. I just can't get myself to believe in all these liberal 'coincidences.' The advantages I have in no longer owning a TV. I no longer instantly get PO'd.
This settlement proves to me even more that the deep state uniparty exists and they've conspired to steal our country thru fraud. Ballot harvesting = ballot manufacturing.
Motor voter and more auto registrations give them the database they need to account for the fake votes they feed into the machines.
and the Dominion machine algorithms adjust vote totals for their desired outcomes.
This trial and discovery could have uncovered a lot of the obvious fraud. A settlement sweeps everything under the rug
I too agree - the dominion machines were/are compromised. It is too easy to do. It is also too easy to run perfect tests and then massively rig the real deal - date check logic embedded in the code.
The Mike Lindell video from 2 years ago was eye opening and lays it out for all to see. Just shows how corrupt our system is.
https://rumble.com/vdlq0r-absolute-proof-documentary-with-mike-lindell-never-before-seen-evidence-on-.html
plus Dominion has that whole partial fraction vote going. Vote for trump, .75, Vote for Xiden 1.25.
You know it is rigged when they cannot tell you how many actual votes they got. Whether they are mail-in, in-person or early. Each of those should have a solid number and in Dominion states mostly they dont.
Like the Federal Reserve Bank creating their fiat coupons (dollars) from thin air, lawyers for Fox & Dominion made up a number to sell as a 'settlement.' No money will change hands. Fox & Dominion are equal partners. They work together with their other co-conspirators to destroy Constitutional Law and National Sovereignty of the United States.
Fox News is part of the dog and pony show that is modern politics. They are there to distract from the regime, which Paul Ryan is part and parcel of. They are not going to address the very real problems with the election, but then in a system where you only have two parties and those parties act more like corporations than parties, democracy is also a joke. (If there's one thing I wish Trump acolytes would learn it's that the problems did not start with Trump; you just noticed them then because you cared.)
I watch "Cucker Tarlson," and I have no problem with him disliking Trump. He never fawned over him and I'm Trump ambivalent myself. I voted for him twice. He exposed a lot that a cynic like me had figured out, but the complacent on the right didn't and it woke them up. But he also did a lot that, even if I'm being generous and think he was naive, rather than ascribing some sort of "trojan horse" motive, leave me convinced he hasn't learned a thing and his second term would be pretty much like his first, which is to say a lot of wasted opportunity.
As for "settling" the lawsuit . . . it has still done damage to precedent. We now can hold news outlets responsible for what *guests* say on shows. Good luck with that one MSNBC, CNN, NYTs, etc.
I'm amazed at what Trump did get done in spite of all the friendly fire.
1. Getting rid of General Flynn on advice of RINOS Pence and his idiot attorney General Sessions.
2. No money approved for his wall thanks to Paul Ryan.
3. Obamacare not repealed thanks to McCain.
Fuck the GOP, Fox News, Media, Democrats and Dominion
Yes, but the problem was he *listened* to Pence and Sessions, who were clearly part of the game, and as for Paul Ryan and McCain, he held the veto over a lot of things those two wanted but wasn't willing to play hardball with them, just as he told the Republicans in the House to cave and elect McCarthy speaker when they instead showed him how to wield power and get concessions, including lowering the bar to get rid of McCarthy so he remains "honest."
This pattern holds on both sides. I remember complaining about Obamacare to someone who liked Obama and her excuse was "that was all he could get with the medical lobby." My answer was, well, then he should have walked away because he put people in an even worse position, but instead he wanted a "legacy," no matter fake that "legacy" was.
The problem is we make excuses for the people we like. Yes, compromise is vital to getting anything done, but I notice how all the compromises really only affect one group, no matter who is president and which party is in charge.
Agree. As Rush used to say compromise to the democrats means we get what we want you get nothing. Miss that man!
Gosh, so do I. I miss him naming which decision was made on "the hill" by an upraised moistened finger.
What do you expect from a company run by Mitt Romney’s running mate?
Woke to the sound of my bunny Rabbits munching food in their hutch. Outside my window. Rather listen to that than Fox. Never again. Great post, Don.
Bunnies don't lie
I dunno...one once lied to me when she told me she'd meet me after her shift at the Playboy Club was over... ; )
lol
"'Shortly after the agreement was reached, Fox said it was “hopeful that our decision to resolve this dispute with Dominion amicably, instead of the acrimony of a divisive trial, allows the country to move forward from these issues."'"
Huh? Clearly, FauxNews thinks itself galactically more important than it is, in reality. It is a little surprising that Christy Wallace hasn't been welcomed back.
"Watch Fox if you want but I will drink Bud Light before I do. And I haven’t had a beer since 1987."
Thanks, but I'll pass. Even if you DO drink a Bud Light, you still won't be drinking beer.
Christy Wallace! 😂😂😂😂.
I’m with revmaddog. Don Surber is my favorite news source. However, I appreciate that Fox News & Fox Business exist because without them there would be NO major media outlet representing “our side” even if they are Disney lite and mostly imperfect. I, too, am mostly imperfect.
Imagine Murdoch's long time enemies in Britain (those still alive) who are gloating because Murdoch setting Wapping and sacked the newspaper unions (1980s; and succeeded): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wapping_dispute
On a side note: Microsoft 11 is a DISASTER. Let me count the ways...
Get a Mac. All are liberal. Gates (though not in charge anymore) has gone full blown dictator and whack job.
Gates is dangerous. I can't tell you how much I despise him. He should not have any authority whatsover to be dispensing advice on how we live our lives (re: eating bugs and taking vaccines).
especially when he eats whatever he wants and jets where ever he wants. And has 12 houses.
Agreed.
Gates is 100 more dangerous than Biden and the Nashville Christian Assassin combined. People actually believe his deranged sh*t. And for those who don't, they are more than willing to be bribed.
Still running a Win 7 machine that is 12 yrs old. Replaced the hard drive and all so it would keep running because of Microsoft.....
I open up "My Documents" on Window 13 (hard drive contents transferred last week from the Win7) and there are TWO copies of every documents.
The Win 13 Spellcheck (Biden's Vocabulary Version) has a glossary "opf" about 15 words. For instance, "opf" is an error and there is no "of" in this version of Can'tSpellCheck.
Spellcheck "done." Document closed. File re-opened. None of the corrections that had been made (save a new word, etc.) and then "saved" WERE saved. It is necessary to do it all over again.
THE MOST HORRIFYING DISCOVERY: There is now NO safeguard against mistakes in that the standard "Are you sure you want to..." (delete a document, etc.) safety feature in Win7 has been discontinued/thrown away. THIS IS INSANE.
My revenge was Linux.
“Five NFL Players Hit With Gambling Bans” --- NYP 09/22/23 [HUMOR]
“Four Detroit Lions players … have been suspended for violating the NFL’s gambling policy, the league announced Friday,” yesterday (Friday 09/21/23).
Four players were Detroit Lions (Williams, Berryhill, Moore and Cephus).
What didn’t make the paper was which “prop” they had bet on, which happened to be:
“In 2023, which NFL team will have the most number of players suspended for violating the NFL gambling policies?”
The Lions players pooled their money and waged $5,000,000 on … Detroit.
Don Reed (09/22/23)
(Isn't it odd that the word "wages" usually means money earned from hard work, not from gambling; and yet, the word "wagered" in most instances means that the money earned from that hard work is about to be squandered?)
What is even worse, please double check where your documents are saving. Most go into the cloud. Microsoft has a habit of storing everything in the cloud. None of my documents are their business. Plus, if you stop paying their subscription for Word, they lock you out of your documents. Please be careful and good luck.
If you are having issues with corrections, it might be the corrections are going to a document in cloud but not on your local machine. Really, good luck.
On my hard drive, all of my docs are allegedly saved in "Documents stored locally." And what the hell does "pinned" mean? With the mouse, we should be able to "hover" over every single word that these illiterate ape-barbarians create that, if clicked, will provide their definition of what the word means to them. Thanks!
Pinned usually means Windows is asking if you want to 'pin' the document to the start menu/task bar. Pinned usually means there is a short cut for it on the task bar/start menu. Those are the general rules for all windows. I know nothing about win 13 though
I'm still crying over Microsoft 6!
What I could once cut, paste and edit in 30 seconds now takes (if I'm insane enough to attempt it) 15 MINUTES.
No human is perfect, Trump included. All the rest strike me as magnitudes worse in the areas of ethics, morality, honesty, accomplishment, and human compassion. Why should I waste my quality time remaining (QTR) listening to a bunch a bloviators - in and out of government - or having paid off government or news - try to spread their junk around public airwaves. I will vote for The Donald and I ignore all that noise from those air heads fumbling their wares out there.
I still watch Fox because I want to know what is going on, even if it's from a perspective that I don't often like these days. I only watch Tucker and Gutfeld. Tucker has since walked backed his texts about hating Trump and explained why he said that. True or not true, his excuse and reasons are at this link: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/tucker-carlson-backtracks-private-texts-saying-hates-trump-love-trump-rcna76056. Readers can decide for themselves.
I find Tucker intellectually interesting and his topics appeal to me far more than anything Hannity or Ingraham put out. At some point, though, he will be asked to leave Fox.
Fox is now CNN lite. Its 2020 election night coverage was awful and biased and it showed how the network no longer had any use for Trump. Yes, since Ailes left the network has abandoned its mission. The Murdoch boys (and their father) and Paul Ryan have seen to that. So other options and competitors will take over. That's what a free market does.
And, yes, American libel laws need to be overhauled. You can lie about a politician if there is an absence of malice. Bloody unlikely.
I loved the movie Absence of Malice with Paul Newman and Sally Field. (1981)
The scene with Wilford Brimley is among the best in cinema. Too bad I can't find it, anywhere...
I was a young journalism student at the time. (1981) I didn't really understand all of the movie then because, being Canadian, I did not understand your libel/slander laws. I watched the movie again last fall on TCM and really had a better understanding of the movie and what took place. Wilford Brimely was a gem in that movie. Still a fav of mine.
Same, here!