Nope.
When their sole mission in life is not to truthfully report the news, but to lie nonstop and instill hatred in the electorate for Republicans so that they can destroy freedom itself and the nation they despise? C’mon, is that a serious question?
“American libel law requires actual malice, or reckless disregard of facts, by the media before a public figure can collect. But the students were not public figures as they gathered at the Lincoln Memorial to meet their bus, and the ready availability of exonerating videotape suggests that the first accusatory stories were rushed into print with reckless disregard of available facts. I sure wouldn’t want to defend them before a Kentucky jury.”
Could this be the source of all the journalist layoffs this week? Maybe so.
Only someone from Townhall.com would pose such an idiotic question.
We're well past respecting the corrupt media, now they need to be prosecuted for libel.
Heck you can’t even believe their weather forecasts! They just say stuff to drum up ratings.
“Does the Media Deserve to Be Respected and Believed?”
No.
Respected and believed is earned they don’t know how to earn it all they know is like a cheap movie flash bang and a fast car and lots of fire.
Low informed eats that stuff up like candy to a kid.
95% of so called Journalists are self admitted Democrats, Liberals, Progressives and / or Socialists.
Of the remaining 5%, four out of five are Liars.
Based on recent events, this also may apply to everyone connected to the Deep State including the Judiciary, Justice Department and the numerous ABC Alphabet Federal Government Departments.
The press have turned themselves into a buyer beware proposition. They do not “deserve” respect or belief at all. They pimped themselves out as click bait, and now its clear that they also are propagandists. They are a clear danger to democracy itself. Frankly I think the CIA has taken control of the media in the US. Its clear our intelligence organizations including the FBI have tried to manipulate the American people. I don’t trust the press and I don’t trust the government.
“Is this the behavior of a press that deserves to be respected and believed?”
HELL NO!!!
Does the media deserve to be respected and believed? No. Not the Mainstream Media. No, not at all.
Their broadcast license should be revoked.