Newsmax, the right-wing TV news outlet, filed suit Wednesday against Fox News and its parent company, alleging the conservative media powerhouse had illegally sought to suppress the smaller challenger’s growth in cable news. “Fox Corporation has long engaged in an exclusionary scheme to increase and maintain its dominance in the market for U.S. right-leaning pay TV news, resulting in suppression of competition in that market that harms consumers, competition, and Newsmax Broadcasting,” the lawsuit contends. It was filed in a federal court in Miami. Shortly after Newsmax revealed its lawsuit, Fox rejected the allegation. “Newsmax cannot sue their way out of their own competitive failures in the marketplace to chase headlines simply because they can’t attract viewers,” Fox News Media said in a statement a network spokesperson shared with NPR. Fox Corp. declined comment. The suit appears to be yet another consequence of the fallout of President Trump’s electoral loss in 2020; On election night, Fox News’s decision to call the key state of Arizona for Joe Biden before any other network led to outrage among much of its core pro-Trump audience. As Fox bled millions of viewers, executives routinely cited Newsmax as a threat. Much of Fox’s internal consternation about Newsmax publicly surfaced in Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation suit against Fox. Fox ultimately paid $787.5 million in 2023 to settle the lawsuit, filed over the lies embraced and...Read more