A press release from Personal Media CEO Will Hayward and chairman Eric Beecher.
It is a substantial victory for reputable public curiosity journalism. We stand by what we revealed final June, and all the pieces we specified by our defence to the court docket. The imputations drawn by Murdoch from that article have been ridiculous.
We stand by our place that Lachlan Murdoch was culpable in selling the lie of the 2020 election outcome as a result of he, and his father, had the ability to cease the lies. How do we all know? As a result of Dominion sued Fox Information for selling the lies and Fox simply paid A$1.17 billion to Dominion to settle the case.
Murdoch’s lawyer made the absurd suggestion, in his assertion of defeat at present, that his shopper “stays assured that the court docket would in the end discover in his favour, nonetheless, he doesn’t want to additional allow Crikey’s use of the court docket to litigate a case from one other jurisdiction that has already been settled and facilitate a advertising and marketing marketing campaign designed to draw subscribers and enhance their earnings”.
The very fact is, Murdoch sued us, after which dropped his case.
We need to take a second to thank all of those that helped us on this journey — our loyal readers, the atypical Australians who contributed to our GoFundMe, the Crikey editorial workforce who’ve labored beneath immense stress, the broader employees who’ve put in colossal extra effort to maintain the enterprise going whereas all this has been occurring, our authorized workforce Marque Legal professionals, our subscribers for his or her many notes of help, and actual journalists throughout Australia who do the onerous and difficult work of holding energy to account.
We’re pleased with our stand. We’re proud to have uncovered the hypocrisy and abuse of energy of a media billionaire.
It is a victory at no cost speech. We received.
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