You may not have heard of this yet (I certainly hadn’t, as I’m here in Canada, eh?), but Ben Meiselas has, and he’s got the juicy legal details:
The latest news links on this are from four days ago, so I’m guessing someone was trying to bury something here. And of course, it’s embarrassing! I mean, this is the piece they were trying to suppress, and these last two paragraphs are the particular part that got the Murdochs, père et fils, so hot under the collar that they tried to sue Crikey for defamation:
And Nixon didn’t have the support of the world’s most powerful media company, which continues — even in the face of mountains of evidence of Trump’s treachery and crimes — to peddle the lie of the stolen election and play down the insurrection Trump created.
If Trump ends up in the dock for a variety of crimes committed as president, as he should be, not all his co-conspirators will be there with him. Nixon was famously the “unindicted co-conspirator” in Watergate. The Murdochs and their slew of poisonous Fox News commentators are the unindicted co-conspirators of this continuing crisis.
The Murdochs may not like it, but truth is absolutely a valid legal defence against defamation charges, even in Australia. And nothing was said here (or in the rest of the article) that was untrue.
I just wonder now how much they’ll have to fork over for giving Crikey such an unwarranted bad time.
