The way we characterize CNN today, is the very way Fox, Drudge and Brietbart will be characterized in 8, 12, 16 or 20 years from now.
There are couple of ways to look at this, both valid:
1. Demonstrate a commitment to absolutely free press and take some pain to prove it. Hope the American people remember it when the shoe is on the other foot and the commies are moving to silence us.
2. Assume the commies will one day prevail and silence us...if we don’t stop them now. Every action is OK if it’s pointed at this goal.
Personally, I waver between the two.
Easier way to do this. Fairness Doctrine. If you are reporting the news, it must be reporting and accurate. Opinions on a news show is forbidden. If you do not report the news to the people, you are no longer a source of government oversight meaning you are no longer a news station and should no be afforded first amendment rights.
That ends the majority of left wing news shows as well as sources of information like that AP and Reuters. It keeps the NY Slimes editorial page, but aside from that and the crossword, the paper will have to close down. CNN and the network media will have to relabel themselves as Entertainment.
This is how you destroy the left. You use their standards against them.