re: #211 MsJ

Take Sinclair and fox. Both are propaganda outlets. Fox went to court to be able to lie on air. And won. There needs to be repercussions. Media consolidations are rewards for bad behavior. There is little real journalism anymore. It’s all bothsider mbf horserace bullshit.

We do have laws against fraud, slander, and libel, which make it clear that a person’s right to free speech has limits. If you represent yourself as a news outlet and make statements that you know are false or misleading, with reckless disregard for the truth, and so on, why should you not be held to the same standard as everyone else trying to sell a product?

It’s not like the courts haven’t litigated this sort of situation before. The US gives a great deal of deference to anybody who calls themselves a news outlet, which is being exploited by adversaries foreign and domestic.