I always love it when the media (an agency that works in free speech/free press/free expression) lectures us about how such things should be both punishable and illegal.
. . . for anyone but themselves.People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.- Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations (1776). . . and major journalists all “meet together,” virtually, via the wire services (esp. the AP).The resulting "conspiracy against the public” is the propaganda campaign to the effect that all journalists are objective and anyone who publicly disagrees with their establishment is “not a journalist, not objective.”