The Press is for the people, not to push narratives for the Government. 1) Any “Press” that intentionally spreads misinformation deliberately to harm a person or to protect a person, can lose it’s license and can be sued. Network news must be accountable for it’s anchors selling their opinions or preferences as “news.” Gullible Americans are being misled and even used by powerful people and that is not right. 2) Influencers that are being paid to spread a particular narrative or promote a person/party, must disclose that very openly. 3) NPR needs new management and to be completely gutted. Opinion should not be allowed on a Government run media. 4) When opinion is a part of a News Program, someone competent from a differing view point should also be available for the counter argument. 5) All news organizations, anchors and affiliates that do donate to politics must disclose who and how much they donated on a new public forum that will be created, if it is not disclosed, license removal or fines are possible. 6) Independent shows like TYT or Tucker Carlson, need to add a disclaimer when their show is opinion, not news reporting. 7) People need to have faith in the debate process, so Networks that do get a debate contract, will have to include balanced moderators… i.e. at least one Democrat/Left leaning and one Republican/Right leaning and one Independent/Moderate Leaning Individual.
There are likely other things we can do also. These are just suggestions. I don’t know if these are the right things to do, but we need to do something.