With $1.6bn at stake, Fox News is suddenly interested in freedom of the press | Margaret Sullivan

David Gergen: Fox News' reliance on first amendment protections while part of legal strategy may prove successful in court is the height of hypocrisy.

He says the network's reliance on the landmark press-rights case Times v Sullivan is hypocritical.

Fox hosts for years have urged their grievance-hungry audience to despise journalists, Gergen says.

But somehow, I don’t think this was what the founders had in mind. Fox News doesn’t deserve the second word in its name. Margaret Sullivan is a Guardian US columnist writing on media, politics and culture.