No one is targeting ANY party. Though we both know which party the msm represents, and would stand to lose the most!
“Would have a chilling effect on news coverage in general”…
GOOD!!! THAT IS THE DESIRED EFFECT! WOULDN’T THAT BE SOMETHING! TO TURN ON THE NEWS AND ACTIALLU GET TRUTH AND FACTS, AND NOTHING ELSE?! Print and broadcast the truth, the cold boring facts, and that’s it. And for the anything else, to be clearly delineated as editorial sectioned? Is that too much to ask? And if Rachel Maddow can’t make it through a broadcast, without going into cold sweats, crying, pooping her pants, out of fear of lawsuits, fear of NBC losing their liscence, well that’s a good thing. That’s entertaining TV. And if sticking to the truth, and simply reporting facts is too difficult for her, NBC, well then maybe it’s time for new blood, new media institutions to take its place that won’t have to struggle so much.
You’re trying to make a case that lies are 1st ammendment protected speech…And the truth coincides with the first Ammendment protected speech does it not?
But lies are prosecutable in business all the time. All I am trying to do is define and enforce the public trust. A TRUST. Media (trustee) they want the job, they got the job. Duties come with that job. THE PUBLIC (beneficiary) that’s a job, duties come with that job. And you can be sued if you don’t do your job properly, if you don’t adhere to your duties and responsibilities.
Something tells me you do not want there to be a binding legal re quirement between the media and the public that’s enforced to function similarly AS a trust is required to function.
I’m guessing you’re a libertarian. You basically admit that your view is truth and lies are matters of opinion. When it’s far more black and white than that. The covid vaccination propaganda carried out by the media is complicit in millions of deaths and side effects precisely because real journalism did not take place, and the common good, preservation of the public trust is no longer what the media is stewarding.
You seem to view “public” and “private” as financial or commercial UCC terms only. Yet we as individuals, men and women maintain our individual rights in and out of public and private spaces, and the public trust exists from one to the other. We have expectations to not be accosted, or stolen from in either realm, and we can litigate those harms if we are. We do not have to have standing, or prove financial loss, to prosecute a theft or assault or crime. yet you keep referring back to “standing”. You refer to airports as private spaces.
My home is a private space. I can walk around in my underwear in my home. I cannot walk around in my underwear in the airport. It would be considered a crime even though it doesn’t physically or financially harm anyone.
Yet media lies DO physically and financially harm the public. And it does not and should not take “standing” to prove that. Citizen status ought to be sufficient.
You are engaging in denialism, by only putting forth maintenance of the status quo arguments, the way things are, and not acknowledging the way things should be. A law change.
Corporations should not be immune from litigations, or have special protections from violations of the public trust. The 1st Ammendment should not mean freedom to LIE. And legal protections and immunity from prosecutions if your vehicle for distribution of information and news operates within and has direct effects on the public trust.
The public trust is not limited to public spaces, court houses, government buildings only. It’s not limited to the city square where a town crier reads the daily reports. We’ve moved past the city Square, and town criers. Radio/Television news, internet news, makes the public square, and the public trust ubiquitous.
When you lie and say truth and lies are a matter of opinion or preference, it only proves You don’t value the public trust. So why would you care to salvage, secure it, or define it, legally?
Western countries are the only countries who HAVE a public trust. In 3rd world countries, no one trusts anybody else, or anything their government says. Think about that. We’re almost to the point where we cannot trust much of what anyone else says, what our media says, or the government. What’s the standard here then? And why are you attempting to justify it, rather than grasp the gravity of the situation?
Your regurgitation of corporate financial standing is only highlighting the inconsistency of our laws.
If someone can be charged with a hate crime for saying nigger, or something deemed antisemitic, in private or public spaces? Are those “victims” required to have standing or prove financial loses? Or prove they’ve been harmed physically? Or is it really a matter of 1st Ammendment free speech?
You suffer from the same brain rot the left does. The left wants to violate the 1st Ammendment with regards to individuals free speech, but they no longer want to bear any responsibility for the truth, but want to create harms, death, costs, effect political outcomes with brazen lies with total immunity. And your solution is obscure and obfuscate the prioritization and restoration of the public trust, which is vastly more important than any number of corporations, and has more societal function and purpose, and your solution is “vote with your feet”, change the channel?
I think you DO get it. But you don’t want to get it.
Truth and facts are more than a preference. They are a necessity. Western culture and country are dependanton it, and society breaks down without it. You want the luxury of it as a preference, but you don’t want it as a duty of responsibility. Which I’d why you personally are OK with the crimes of the media, and the left, because while you may want the media and the left to be truthful, you don’t want anyone, including yourself to be duty bound to it.
I’ve already laid out a more coherent legally consistent framework for the entity of public trust than the existing framework for corporations. All that’s lacking is political will.