No, they will be dismissed because of the First Amendment.
The idea, expressed in the article, that the media are somehow guilty of a crime if they don't report that Obama is (supposedly) ineligible, is beyond nutty. 18 U.S.C. section 1001 penalizes lying to the Government, not lying about the Government. If lying about the Government were a crime, Free Republic would have been shut down long ago-- do you think everything expressed on this site is provably true? Do you really want the Department of Justice to have the power to prosecute anyone who says something false about public officials?
So you’re going to argue that the 1st amendment gives the media to right to lie to, mislead the public, and basically misrepresent the facts in order to blatantly become a propaganda arm of one political party without any consequences??? You honestly believe this was the intention of the founding fathers????? You really should go read Washington’s farewell address again, in fact go back and reread it a 2nd time and then a 3rd time if necessary until you can grasp it.
No wonder I hate lawyers.
I don’t think you read 18 U.S.C 1001 or the description of it that I posted. It doesn’t matter whether the person knows they are deceiving the feds; all that matters is whether they knew they were saying something false or covering up part of the truth in order to deceive.
I corrected their factual errors; they refused to correct their content to reflect the truth. They knew they were deceiving, or they “consciously disregarded or averted (their) eyes from the likely falsity.” Because this involved an issue under the jurisdiction of at least one of the 3 branches of federal government, that was a crime.
The media has gotten away with its lies for WAY too long. No more.