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To: conservative98
Personally, I think we have to revisit libel, slander, and defamation laws, and stop allowing the press to lie with impunity. We also need a new law that defines a new category of press misconduct. Something along the lines of ‘journalistic neglect’. If you publish or broadcast something that has not met a minimum standard for validation, you should be susceptible to being sued for ‘journalistic neglect’.

If you want to allow news ‘commentators’ to opine and make supposition, it should be labeled as such. Anything that is not properly sourced should be published under the heading of ‘conjecture’ Anything said by a news ‘anchor’ or reporter, or written, that doesn't have factual back-up from quotable sources should be required to be labeled as conjecture. 95% of what gets said on ‘shows’ like Morning Joe etc. would all into that category.

41 posted on 05/04/2019 12:38:40 PM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: neverevergiveup

And poof... we become Canada with its arbiters of fairness, albeit with a different slant at first?

Something feels missing here. It ought to be possible to create a Trump TV. I think conservatives have allowed their memory of Christianity (and Judaism) to fade into the background, and forgotten a God who honors positive action to put forth truth, mocking the enemies for they can be out-endured. Stress on “anti” actions is already playing the weaker cards.


46 posted on 05/04/2019 12:43:08 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (May Jesus Christ be praised.)
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