“We’re All Embarrassed”: Inside Fox News as Dominion Revelations Rattle the Network

Tucker’s Texts • Satanism Panic • Hope Hicks Talks Stormy

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“We’re All Embarrassed”: Inside Fox News as Dominion Revelations Rattle the Network

Good morning from the Hive newsroom! Fox News producers got a notably timed training in libel law, Brian Stelter reports for Vanity Fair, with an inside look at the network’s handling of the Dominion lawsuit—and all the nervous gossip going around the newsroom. Unsealed documents from the Dominion lawsuit revealed Tucker Carlson disparaging Donald Trump over text, but as Eric Lutz writes, that hasn’t stopped Carlson from carrying water for the former guy on his show.

Meanwhile, Caleb Ecarma captures the right wing’s growing and radicalized “Parents’ Rights” movement that’s paranoid about satanism in schools. Plus, Bess Levin finds Hope Hicks talking to prosecutors about the Stormy Daniels hush money case. Thanks for reading!

“We’re All Embarrassed”: Inside Fox News as Dominion Revelations Rattle the Network

Fox producers are getting libel law training, and staffers are (cautiously) gossiping about filings exposing the likes of Rupert Murdoch and Tucker Carlson. “We’re very careful when we’re miked up,” one on-air personality tells Vanity Fair. “And we’re not texting.”

How the Right Is Turning Political Paranoia Into “Parents’ Rights”

From activist mothers to MAGA stars, just about everyone at last week’s CPAC was awash in fears that satanism, marxism, and “transgenderism” are creeping into schools nationwide. “They’re trying to erase us as women and moms,” says the president of Moms for America, and “steal the hearts and minds of our children.”

Tucker Carlson Doesn’t Think Much of Donald Trump—Or His Audience

The Fox News host privately called the then president a “disaster” during the lead-up to January 6. Two years later, Carlson is still spinning a wildly different story to his viewers.

Hope Hicks Had a Little Chat With Prosecutors About Trump’s Hush Money Payment

Will the “Hopester” help the Manhattan DA finally nail Trump?

Ivanka Trump Awkwardly Implies Her Brothers and Dad May Have Committed Fraud at the Trump Org.

Feels like this should make for a particularly uncomfortable vibe at the next family gathering!