'Eating their own': Lawsuit against Fox News likened to warring 'cannibal tribes'

The right-wing media sphere was rocked by drama this week as the cable giant Fox News was sued by its smaller, younger competitor Newsmax, which alleges that Fox employs anti-competitive practices and agreements to keep itself in basic cable packages, and Newsmax is either relegated to premium tiers or not carried as an option at all.

The lawsuit, in its early stages, has yet to proceed to any meaningful stages or merit a significant rebuttal from Fox.

Nonetheless, the brewing fight between two right-wing cable networks, both of which have previously faced lawsuits for spreading election disinformation, attracted a flurry of commentary from analysts on social media — the more left-leaning of whom appeared gleeful at the prospect.

"It's like watching cannibals eat neighboring cannibal tribes," wrote national security attorney Mark Zaid.

"I love when my enemies go to war with each other," wrote Bruce Bartlett, a former Reagan administration policy adviser who has since abandoned the GOP.

The Lincoln Project, a group infamous for trolling President Donald Trump, simply responded by posting a popcorn emoji.

"Newsmax has alleged this in public before; now, in their lawsuit, they're relying on text messages and emails that surfaced during Dominion's defamation lawsuit against Fox News Media," wrote media and tech journalist Matthew Keys.

"When they start eating their own," wrote Lois Romano, a former editor for Washington Post Live.