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Monday, March 23, 2026
Regulate the corporate media
What can be done about "news" outlets that do not tell the truth?
The truth can be a slippery thing, so what is it? What the truth actually is can actually be debated. But a lie can be defined. A lie is when the truth is known, and something false is substituted knowingly in its place in order to deceive. It is codified in the US Code what fraud is. Fraud is a type of lie. To paraphrase from memory: A fraud is a misrepresentation of fact in order to gain a benefit that would not necessarily be granted.
If news is defined as being "the truth about happenstance", then what passes as news these days is all to often a fraud, imo.
If news is a product, then consumer law protects the public from product fraud. It would seem that the news industry can definitely be regulated, but there is a thing called the First Amendment. But settled law says that the First Amendment protection is not granted to the extent that merchants can defraud their customers. It seems that a lawusuit could be filed against "news" outlets that claim to be delivering the "news" when it is in fact not true. Just sayin'.
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