[originalbuckeye]

That line only applies to Conservatives. Apparently, Democrats have a permanent ‘Get Out Of Jail Free’ card that applies to any breach of our laws.

[Terry L Smith]

To respond to the title, in short;
“The line was crossed with The Pentagon Papers by two liberal newspaper hacks!”

[PGalt]

Legitimate whistleblowers (alerting citizens of imminent danger...Paul Revere types) should have their own Mt. Rushmore. The VERIFIABLE CRIMINAL STATE players could have their own Mt. On a lamp post.

[polymuser]

Where is the line that divides journalism and

Opinion
Editorial
Fiction
Attack
Slander
Libel
Collusion
Inciting to riot
Monopoly
Sedition
Treason

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Where is the Line that Divides Journalism and Cybercrime?

Adam Smith:

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.”

. . . and all major journalists “meet together” all the time. Consider that the AP “wire” is a virtual meeting of all major journalism, and that it has been in continuous operation since before the Civil War (Morse demo’ed the Baltimore-Washington telegraph in 1844; formation of the AP started in 1848). Other wire services of course exist in competition to the AP - but they also constitute virtual meetings of major journalists.

IOW, you have to be naive as a babe to believe that journalism as we know it is not a cartel. The politically monochromatic nature of “the media” is the result.