Very interesting but the malpractice is going beyond libel. MSM Is purposefully misleading and misinforming people to pursue some agenda MSM supports or believes.
Like the mafia in America early on, the MSM “doesn’t exist.”The problem with that position, besides the nearly limitless quantity of “anecdotal” evidence to the contrary, is the fact articulated by Adam Smith in Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations:
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.Since before the Civil War there has been one or more wire services, and wire services function as continual, unending virtual meetings - fully equivalent to physical meetings for practical purposes - between the major journalism organization. Accordingly you have to be terminally naive to assume that a journalism cartel does not exist. The fact that journalists are absolutely unashamed over those meetings - which would be patently illegal to institute today, given antitrust law and the fact that minimizing the expense of telegraphy bandwidth is now a de minimus consideration - should not obscure the fact that they are illegal. The existence of “the MSM” is a violation of antitrust law.Accusing “the MSM” of "purposefully misleading and misinforming people to pursue some agenda MSM supports or believes” implies that journalists have a duty to be “objective” or to reflect “the public interest,” or some such drivel. "The freedom . . . of the press” recognizes that sorting the wheat from the chaff is up to the people.
Up to the people, that is, except for the right to compensation for libel. That right existed in Revolutionary times and, under the Ninth Amendment, cannot legitimately have been changed since.
You have good reason to feel offended by “bias in the media” - but not because an individual journalist anywhere has an enforceable obligation to be unbiased. Enforcing such a putative obligation would be problematic and directly contrary to freedom of the press.
The offense you have a right to feel offended over is the fact that “the media” is actually, functionally, a cartel for promoting socialist propaganda. And that the libel law which should enable Republicans to force that cartel to at least get their “facts” into alignment with reality has been a dead letter since 1964.
IMHO.