It's against the law to yell "FIRE!" in a crowded theater when there is no fire. But, it's okay for news outlets to deliberately give out false news?
Do the rights to free speech and freedom of the press include the right to falsely and maliciously report to the American people lies and misrepresentations of events as being fact?
One thing I learned early on in life is... if you tell a lie, it's going to be followed by a spanking.
It's one thing to print the news and follow up on the facts with commentary and opinion; it's quite another matter to take opinions and agendas and to represent them as being facts. If journalists and media news outlets cannot police themselves and adhere to the principles of objectivity and fairness, they then need to be reprimanded and punished.
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