I wonder if this type of collusion, where the media acts as a house organ for one political party, is beyond the protection of the First Amendment and thus susceptible to some type of RICO statute suit.
IMO, it is demanding 'of the people, by the people, for the people' correction. A people's vote of No Confidence is in order. There is taxation without representation. There is no representation. There are unConstitutional activities everywhere. Government people have broken the COTUS directives, ignored our Law of the Land. We need people exiled from the U.S. and public hangings in front of the WH again. We'll see if Trump engages in a serious manner...
“I wonder if this type of collusion, where the media acts as a house organ for one political party, is beyond the protection of the First Amendment and thus susceptible to some type of RICO statute suit.”
Back at the founding, the media was all partisan, all the time. Parties bough their own newspapers, even individual politicians did. It was expected and known.
But none of them required a license by the state, or were granted monopolies by the state, as has been the case with the television and radio stations, and the FCC.
One possibility is to make all the broadcast media private property, as was done with the cell phone frequencies, and to insure competition, instead of slavish obedience to the state, as “broadcast in the public interest” implies.
It is the lack of competition created by government granted monopolies that is the problem.