Will a $1.6bn defamation lawsuit finally stop Fox News from spreading lies? | Margaret Sullivan

Advertising boycotts don't restrain the rightwing network, but the Dominion lawsuit may succeed in holding them to account

If you've paid even the slightest attention to how Fox News operates, the recent revelations from a legal filing come as no huge surprise.

From the moment it was founded in the mid-1990s, Fox has been a partisan outlet - very much by the design of its founder, Australian-born media mogul Rupert Murdoch, and its founding chief executive, Roger Ailes. It never was the fair and balanced" news source that its motto claimed. Calling it conservative" has always been putting things far too mildly; but for a time, it observed a modicum of journalistic standards.