TV News LIES

The Guardian has won daily newspaper of the year and supplement of the year for its Saturday magazine at the prestigious Press Awards.

They were two of several accolades received at the ceremony, including columnist of the year (broadsheet) for Aditya Chakrabortty, while Jay Rayner won critic of the year for the Observer.

Pippa Crerar, who is now the Guardian’s political editor, won the political journalist of the year for her work with the Daily Mirror.

Ben Jennings was highly commended in the cartoonist of the year category, as was the Guardian’s podcast Today in Focus in the news podcast category.

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Fox Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch said under oath that he believes the 2020 presidential election was free, fair and not stolen, according to court filings released Tuesday in a voting machine company’s defamation lawsuit over Fox News’ coverage of former President Donald Trump’s false election fraud claims.

In sworn questioning in January by lawyers for Dominion Voting Systems, Murdoch was asked, “Do you believe that the 2020 presidential election was free and fair?"

“Yes,” he replied, according to a transcript.

“The election was not stolen,” he said later.

The transcript and other material released Tuesday expand on earlier disclosures that paint a portrait of behind-the-scenes doubt — or outright dismissals — of Trump's voting fraud claims, even as the network gave them airtime. In excerpts of Murdoch's questioning released earlier, he acknowledged that he didn’t stop various Fox News commentators from promoting baseless claims from Trump allies that the election was stolen, even though he could have.

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Two of the four Americans missing since their brazen and violent abduction last week after crossing the border into Mexico have been found dead and two others are alive, Mexican officials said Tuesday.

One of the surviving U.S. citizens was found wounded and the other was unharmed, Tamaulipas Gov. Américo Villarreal said after confirming two Americans died.

Both survivors were returned to the United States, Tamaulipas state Attorney General Irving Barrios Mojica said. A convoy of Mexican ambulances and SUVs was escorted by Mexican military Humvees, armored vehicles, state police and National Guard in trucks with mounted .50-caliber machine guns. It was not immediately clear if the bodies of those killed had been returned.

The thunderclap of stories showing Fox News’ role in pushing 2020 election fraud conspiracies and aiding Donald Trump’s campaign has intensified calls among Democrats to black out the network.

The revelations, made public as part of a $1.6 billion lawsuit brought against Fox by Dominion Voting Systems, showed that some network hosts and executives endorsed lies about Trump’s loss, hosted conspiracy theorists whom they thought were unhinged, and overtly prioritized the company’s profit over truth. A related deposition of the media empire’s chair, Rupert Murdoch, revealed that he shared private intel about Joe Biden’s campaign TV ads and provided debate strategy with top Trump advisers.