I agree. When any media is caught red handed altering, misrepresenting or editing for their profit or ratings there should be consequences.
In my view freedom of the press should not give them the license to misrepresent the truth.
Agree totally, especially when one can show the misrepresent ion was intentional.
If the victim is a person, it’s still very hard for them to prevail in a civil action.
However, when the victim is “The People of the State of North Carolina,”, those who were affected by the riot, as it is in this case, it becomes a criminal matter.
North Carolina General Statutes
288.2. Riot; inciting to riot; punishments.
A riot is a public disturbance involving an assemblage of three or more persons which by disorderly and violent conduct, or the imminent threat of disorderly and violent conduct, results in injury or damage to persons or property or creates a clear and present danger of injury or damage to persons or property.
Any person who willfully incites or urges another to engage in a riot, and such inciting or urging is a contributing cause of a riot in which there is property damage in excess of fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500) or serious bodily injury, shall be punished as a Class F felon.
(1969, c. 869, s. 1; 1979, c. 760, s. 5; 1979, 2nd Sess., c. 1316, s. 47; 1981, c. 63, s. 1, c. 179, s. 14; 1993, c. 539, ss. 187, 188, 1225, 1226; 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 2