Elected officials. What are you smoking? It would be like any other libel case, a court. If the media wanted they could police it themselves by creating standards for reporting and then there would be no need. You seem to feel that any requirement that facts reported are true leads to censorship. I beg to differ.
For the record, I want the Government out of everything possible. National defense and treaties, they retain the powers delineated in the constitution. That is not an overnight “wave a wand” situation and Trump’s stated objectives will move us in the right direction.
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“Elected officials. What are you smoking? It would be like any other libel case, a court.”
We already have laws against libel. Who would bring the libel case to court? The elected official, of course
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“You seem to feel that any requirement that facts reported are true leads to censorship.”
It could. But indirectly so. Again, the threat of suing can be enough to silence someone. Read the history of the Fairness Doctrine. It was used to silence opposing “irresponsible” views.Not directly. But indirectly.
And fact have become a fluid term. What’s one person’s facts is another man’s fiction.