Just a thought, Yes we must protect freedom of speech when it comes to the news media.

[shockey80]

Can we pass laws, set standards that define when someone can call themselves a news organization? Can we pass laws that require people, organizations, to set certain standards of legitimacy before they can call themselves a news organization?

I have a hard time calling fox news a news organization.The so called right ring news media over the past 20 years has fucked this country up. They are more propaganda than news. Should they have the right to call themselves the news?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. None of those suggestions would get past a federal judge.

The First Amendment is very broad. If you start setting standards for what is "news" you run the risk of allowing political bias to affect those standards. Even lies are protected by the Constitution as long as they aren't defamatory.

[spanone]

5. yep

[shockey80]

2. Are lies news?

Is propaganda news? I guess thats what I am trying to figure out.

[Thomas Hurt]

3. What Trump complains about has always existed in the media.

There have always been politically biased newspapers. Politicians have always been attacked. Every President with the possible exception of Washington has attacked and insulted and accused of this or that. There have always been mistakes and frauds in media and politics.

The liberal media never was. The right just neglected to exercise their free speech in the modern media arena. They found themselves behind.

The right wing has caught up and IMO has overtaken the left.

Fox
nationwide conservative christian radio
AM talk radio

The right has indeed moved into propaganda. That is really what complaints about the liberal media and fake news is all about. It is not about parity or fairness or truth.

It is about hegemony, theirs.

[HeartachesNhangovers]

4. I understand that you want to protect

the integrity of the news, but your approach is flawed - requiring government approval to be a news organization is unconstitutional on it's face. I think it would be better to teach people to take anything they hear about politics with a grain of salt, because anything you read or hear about politics has been spun to some degree.