Menendez and Booker aren’t the little people, that’s why.
THEN THEY ARE THE ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE.
The media claims that they do not tell lies so the following should present no problem to them.
That standard of truth should be formalized and guidelines established.
What we really need is a law that mandates that within any and all News Reports, when actual news is reported, that the reporters are only allowed to report complete, in context, provable, and verifiable facts, with zero editorializing.
That is the true news.
Violate this standard and the individual who spoke the lie, misinformation, or made the mistake, is suspended without pay or benefits for 90 days and the network and/or the employer, or those who produced and broadcast the show, get an automatic million dollar fine.
On a well labeled and separate section of the program clearly labeled, editorials and opinions, draw your conclusions and make your point, BUT, all slander will be prosecuted.
On the editorial portions of their broadcasts,
Any person who slanders another on a news cast by speaking unproven claims as facts, when these claims will or are likely to cause damage to the subjects image, campaign, or to their professional reputation, that person who spoke the slander will be instantly suspended from any and all media work or reporting for at least a month. The originating organization who broadcast the slander will be fined a million dollars, per incident/statement.
This should apply to all media organizations, national and local affiliates who originate the slander with lessor fines to any local media organization who broadcast the information on locally constructed and produced broadcasts.
The originating network should be held to a million dollar fine for each and every violation of these standards and have 60 days to either pay up or prove what was said is true using provable, verifiable facts. If they do not prove what was said or pay up, their license to broadcast will be suspended until they do.
I value truth.
Between citizens on a family, friend, or even casual basis with a stranger our freedom of speech rights should not be infringed. We have the right to opinionate, lie, and slander anyone and everyone we wish to within the existing current laws.
A good bit of our personal interactions are passion driven and that is OK for personal interaction. We are not professionals dedicated to producing the true news as a source of information for the nation.
That is the interaction of citizens.
Licensed media exists in a totally different context.
National and local news has an absolute responsibility to tell us the precise and exact truth.
That is the responsibility of all licensed media.
From those who are responsible for giving us the NEWS, there can be only one standard. That truth must be complete, in context, precise, provable, and verifiable with multiple real and accurate sources each and every time.
This can be the only standard.
If you truly believe in this standard then you should have no problem with these new mandates.
Now my editorial/feelings/opinion.
Screw the media, tell the damn truth, the factual, verifiable, provable truth.
Separate your editorials, opinions, and political propaganda into a different segment of the show so I can turn you off and not have to listen to you tell me how and what I should think.
I am well educated, well traveled, and have broad life experience. I am successful in my careers and within our culture/cultures.
I am capable of taking the simple/real truth and arriving at my own conclusions.