If you are feeling a bit like you were fooled before the Dominion-Fox settlement bargain, join the club. I was too.
Dominion tried its case in the newspapers (and on cable TV and on the internet) before Fox paid Dominion to stop trying its case. Dominion's public position was that Fox damaged Dominion's reputation.
Now we know that all Dominion was looking for, really, was money. Behind the scenes of its public face, Dominion must have wanted Fox's money desperately. It took less than half of what it had been demanding from Fox.
Civil cases settle for money all the time. But they don't settle for less than half of the money all the time.
And more importantly, they don't usually settle without an apology when the party claiming to be the victim, in this case Dominion, claims that its reputation was irretrievably damaged by the other party, Fox in this case.
The value that Dominion really put on its reputation was nil, nada, nothing. Dominion did not even get an apology from Fox. That's how important Dominion actually thought its reputation was, in reality. Dominion's reputation was worth nothing to Dominion. Yet publicly, Dominion built a following by convincing the public that Dominion was the victim of such horrible deeds that its reputation might never recover.
Looks like all it took for Dominion was less than half of the money it demanded from Fox in the first place.
And Dominion didn't even get an apology.
So I'm not going to feel bad about believing Dominion's hype. Dominion intended for me and for you to believe it. Dominion spent a lot of air time and newspaper space crafting that phony narrative so that we would fall for it. Masters of deception, with loads of help. Dominion was adamant in public about the damage to its reputation.
Until, in private, it wasn't.
So don't let them make you feel bad now. I have to admit that I felt bad myself, for about a day. But not now.
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