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Sounds like a worthy endeavor, but it will only be viewed by people as another extreme rightest endeavor. Truth being the extreme, but as a person who has built a personal life code around truth and honesty I can tell you from experience, most people find that very extreme. I've lost friends and family over being honest and truthful with them, no matter how tactful. In everyday life people are used to being lied too. They themselves will tell small white lies and think nothing of it.(somebody in history noted this and told big lies) So to have the truth be told is shocking and extreme.

But, that is not where my mind wanders this morning in regards to this discussion. It wanders to the First Amendment. Does Freedom of the Press mean these journalists, and I use that term loosely, have the Right to push propaganda? When they present opinion pieces and interviews as news to forward an agenda is that not fraud?

Just as Freedom of Speech does have a redline (LOL), like yelling 'fire in a crowded theatre,' does Freedom of the Press? We often say the government can't censor the Press as this laymen's article notes, "In other words, the government does not have the right to try to control or block certain things from being published by the press," The First Amendment and Press Freedom.

We often say the press is carrying the progressive agenda. Does the Press have the Right to lie to the American people? In fact I'd dare say now as often is displayed the Press gets their talking points from the government and while the government may not exactly be accused of censorship, they are controlling the message from the Press.

When we here the exact same phrases used, the exact same words and meme from reporter to reporter is this not evidence of a form of censorship? And when the journalist or news agency agrees to carry this propaganda to defraud the public is this not a violation of First Amendment? The whole idea behind a Free Press isn't to just protect the Press. The amendment is there to protect, We the People, from a dishonest, controlling government.

Sounds like a worthy endeavor, but it will only be viewed by people as another extreme rightest endeavor.

It is useful as a source of citation.

In everyday life people are used to being lied too.

More important to them is to have their own lies accepted.

Does Freedom of the Press mean these journalists, and I use that term loosely, have the Right to push propaganda? When they present opinion pieces and interviews as news to forward an agenda is that not fraud?

It is not culpable unless someone is demonstrably harmed by the fraud and therefore has standing to bring an action to court.

Please do not forget that there is a big distinction between the Press and the OWNERS of the press. We have a huge problem in this country because of the protections offered by the corporate veil not available to individuals.

The amendment is there to protect, We the People, from a dishonest, controlling government.

There is more to owning a media outlet than advertising revenue. Controlling public opinion can be very profitable as long as the government can exceed its enumerated powers sufficiently to sell regulatory favors. Socialism is thus in the interest of exclusively the extremely wealthy.