evidence: On November 9, Carlson wrote to Scott, "I’ve never seen a reaction like this, to any media company. Kills me to watch it." Scott shared the message with Rupert’s son Lachlan, the CEO of the Fox Corporation and a Carlson ally. On that day, Dominion alleges, "Fox executives made an explicit decision to push narratives to entice their audience back." One snippet of texts shows Scott telling Lachlan that viewers were "going through the 5 stages of grief." Angling to impress her boss, she said that the Arizona projection was damaging, "but we will highlight our stars and plant flags letting the viewers know we hear them and respect them." What a curious word—respect. Journalists are taught that to respect the audience means to report the truth clearly and carefully. But inside Fox, which is first and foremost a provider of entertainment, respect meant something else. Reading the texts and emails, I was reminded of another thing the Fox & Friends producer had said. "We were deathly afraid" of the audience, he admitted, "but we also laughed at them. We disrespected them. We weren’t practicing what we preached."