Two different things at issue here:
1-Did Jones knowingly lie/distort truth in a way that harmed someone?
2-is his doing so covered under the First amendment.
Use the msm as an example and Jones is innocent because they do that everyday.
Jones is a public figure. You and I are not. Being on TV a few times does not make one a public figure; by no definition are the parents such.
“Use the msm as an example and Jones is innocent because they do that everyday.”
The MSM is smart enough (or at least experienced enough) to do so with plausible deniability.
Jones instead casts caution to the wind and often doesn’t bother with that.
So, yes, both are guilty, but one party is sophisticated enough to commit the crime in such a way that they are probably not going to be proven guilty, and the other is not.