they’re going to have a lot to answer for in the coming years
As much as I hope this is the case I have to ask: How - exactly - will the press be held to account?
Last time I looked, there is no law that states the press must report fairly or truthfully and without bias toward one party or against another. It seems to me that it was always just assumed the press would act in that manner.
Here's an interesting question!
What if a 1M conservative cable subscribers asked to have CCN blocked from their basic package. What about 100K?
What's the threshold where CNN’s wallet would be hit hard?
Note CNN is increasing an international news outlet as opposed to a national news outlet so it might not matter if their US audience shrunk to nothing.
The ‘law’ that will hold them ‘accountable’ is the ages old Law of Supply and Demand, administered in the Court of Public Opinion.
People will not buy a product that is known to be defective.......
The media's most valuable asset is it's credibility, and it's very hard to regain once you have lost it.
I like many others has not read a newspaper in years nor watched the evening news on TV. It's full of distortions and omissions. I can get better information from the Internet including a variety of view points.