An announcement from Non-public Media CEO Will Hayward and chairman Eric Beecher.
It is a substantial victory for legit public curiosity journalism. We stand by what we revealed final June, and every part 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 in the present day, that his shopper “stays assured that the court docket would finally 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 income”.
The actual fact is, Murdoch sued us, after which dropped his case.
We wish to take a second to thank all of those that helped us on this journey — our loyal readers, the peculiar Australians who contributed to our GoFundMe, the Crikey editorial group who’ve labored beneath immense stress, the broader workers who’ve put in colossal extra effort to maintain the enterprise going whereas all this has been occurring, our authorized group Marque Legal professionals, our subscribers for his or her many notes of assist, and actual journalists throughout Australia who do the arduous and hard 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 without cost speech. We gained.
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