

Guests included FOX News personalities and their families along with first responders from the NYPD and FDNY, including members of NYPD Precinct 32, who lost Wilbert Mora and Jason Rivera this year, and members of EMS Station 49, who lost EMS captain Alison Russo earlier this year.įOX’s All-American Christmas tree stands at 50 feet tall and is adorned by 12,000 ornaments and 340,000 lights.

The network also honored first responders by selecting representatives of the FDNY and NYPD to light this year’s tree. In a release, the network said it partnered with the Police Athletic League (PAL) to host a toy drive benefiting New York City’s youth. and cautioned that the board has a fiduciary responsibility to investigate all possible routes to develop value beyond the one suggested by its primary shareholder.įox News held its annual All-American Tree Lighting at FOX Square in New York, New York Monday during “The Five.” The event was hosted by Greg Gutfeld, Judge Jeanine Pirro, Dana Perino, Jessica Tarlov and Jesse Watters Irenic believes a unification would aid Fox far better than News Corp. “Combining News Corp with Fox will result in a combined company that is obviously more complex than both companies left separate.” “For example, Fox Business may benefit from greater integration with The Wall Street Journal and some of Dow Jones’ other properties, but it is highly debatable whether the benefits from such an association flow both ways. “And even if such synergies do exist today, they would principally benefit Fox and reside in the News Media segment of News Corp,” Irenic Capital said (h/t Deadline). possibly merging into one entity, but Irenic Capital, which owns about 2% of News Corp., has taken issue with its potential merger.Ī merger would produce a more complicated company and turn off investors rather than increase the company’s lagging stock price, Irenic Capital stated in a letter to the News Corp. Rumors have swirled over Fox and News Corp. “Any alleged association resulting therefrom are also ‘rhetorical hyperbole’ and ‘pure opinion’ under well-established principles of defamation law,” CNN’s lawyers added. Trump’s attorneys argued CNN “has sought to use its massive influence - purportedly as a ‘trusted’ news source.”Īdditionally, Trump’s lawyer says that CNN attempted “to defame the Plaintiff in the minds of its viewers and readers for the purpose of defeating him politically, culminating in CNN claiming credit for ‘ Trump out’ in the 2020 presidential election.”ĬNN lawyers have pushed back against Trump’s claims saying that the former president “seeks to silence any criticism of Plaintiff’s debunked claim that the 2020 presidential election was ‘stolen.’” Trump filed the lawsuit against CNN because he accuses the network of defaming his character during the 2020 Presidential Election. Former President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit against CNN in October now, over a month later, the cable news channel is asking a judge in Florida to toss the case (h/t The Hill).
