Incensed by an opinion piece, Lachlan Murdoch came at Crikey with guns blazing. But in the end he walked away – for the second time in a week
As Lachlan Murdoch’s day in the witness stand in the Dominion v Fox News case drew closer, at home in Australia the News Corp co-chairman was keen to make a separate legal case against an independent news website go away.
On Friday, just days after Fox News reached a $US787.5m settlement with Dominion in the US defamation lawsuit, Murdoch’s lawyers filed one line in Australia’s federal court to discontinue “the whole of the proceedings”.
