Rupert Murdoch Lies at the Heart of Democracy's Destruction Worldwide

Oh god we're all f*cked

Well, the court gets to determine it, and "courts: the last bastion of truth" doesn't sound so unreasonable.

But, yes, this is why democratic pluralism is so important; you can't fight a big bully all by yourself, and sometimes it's better to get some medium-sized slightly less bullying third parties as allies against them.

(See also Ron DeSantis vs Disney)

I mean, if you wanted to go about usurping the enforcement of truth by eliminating actual bastions of truth, and you succeeded, then of course, in your success, everyone will think you're the last bastion of enforcing truth. After all, you, who are the last bastion of truth, are saying you are, so that proves it.

Which is why bastions of enforcing truth are just a really bad idea. If you want truth to flourish, you can't silo responsibility for it away in some benevolent elite. Critical thinking, media literacy, awareness of rhetoric, and the intersection of all of that with accounts of history have to be bog standard skills in the population.

It's unfortunate that most Americans are opposed to teaching those things. They don't like it when kids come home asking questions like "Why doesn't the Declaration of Independence say all men and women are created equal?" or "After a corpus callosotomy, is there still one soul in the body, or two, or two half-souls?" or "Why can't three people be married?" or "Why aren't you answering my questions?". Parents don't want their kids growing up to be free. They want them growing up to be copies of their parents.

I dunno but alot of things could be described in this way, not just the stuff that sits outside left-wing orthodoxy.

For example, opening a border to illegal migrants in record-breaking numbers, to ultimately sway the voter demographics in your favour, is an incredible betrayal of democracy. Not to mention at the cost of 300 fentanyl deaths a day. These things could be described as dark and malevolent too.

Your dismissal of it assumes those lies can't be worse though, which they certainly can and whether or not they are is kind of what the lawsuit is about.

It also implies that fox new's lies don't suit a political party or ruling class interests when they certainly do.

What a fallen awful disgraceful argument. What lies do you think anywhere remotely match the vile soul-splitting known-falsehoods Fox spun for the ratings? Say one thing, say anything. You got nothing. Screw this pandering excusism. There's nothing like the aggressive at-an-cost lie-machine of instigation going on anywhere but in the vulnerable, sad, hurting Fox neo-world that these monsters have fictated into being with their absurd woe-begotten misery trail of falsehoods. There is no equivalency what-so-ever. This has been long dwelling cancer in the psyche of America & it's utterly unshocking there's some records of these monsters being savage demons, the only surprise is it took so long to come to real light in such undeniable obviousness.

500%. Keeping people glued to the tube, sensationalism, is uncomfortably high many places.

But you're dead on right, there is nothing remotely close in equivalency. To the people Vs people hating & lies of one side of the media. There's coverage of issues & actions on one hand, & coverage about how fallen & bad everyone on the other side is from the not so honorable opposition.

Tucker Carlson's rebirth as a dark soul, after being shamed by John Stewart, is one of those dark bitter tales of humanity where someone, faced with crisis, tripled down on every bad aspect. There's a certain White House Correspondence Dinner that begat another shameless fall towards power, also of note.

One could also argue that the courts and/or government are tilted in favor of one false narrative over the other, and thus refuse to investigate or hear arguments against their chosen channels.

I'm not arguing that this is or is not true, but the argument you're making here is not philosophically different from "if they were bad people then bad things would happen to them; since bad things aren't happening to them they must not be bad people". The reality is that bad people escape punishment all the time, especially when their bad actions benefit the people who should be responsible for punishing them.