Corporations can be sued for making false statements. Even individuals can be sued if they say something and someone else is injured monetarily by relying on the accuracy of that statement.
Yet, the most important business to be accurate in, journalism, not only has no obligation or legal requirement to tell the truth, but they can lie with impunity from private lawsuits as well because defamation law in this country is essentially non-existent.
We need a law requiring news to contain only multiple-sourced factual information with zero spin. Anything with punditry or anonymous sources or speculation needs to be clearly labelled as OPINION. Any outlet that breaks this law should be put out of business.
We would need to re-educate all the reporters now. Most all but a few have spread so many lies and corruption Hell they probably believe their own fake news now!
Retractions should also include fines and penalties for false reporting
Corporations can be sued for making false statements. Even individuals can be sued if they say something and someone else is injured monetarily by relying on the accuracy of that statement.
Yet, the most important business to be accurate in, journalism, not only has no obligation or legal requirement to tell the truth, but they can lie with impunity from private lawsuits as well because defamation law in this country is essentially non-existent.
We need a law requiring news to contain only multiple-sourced factual information with zero spin. Anything with punditry or anonymous sources or speculation needs to be clearly labelled as OPINION. Any outlet that breaks this law should be put out of business.
WaPo claims it was false info provided by a confidential source. If that's true then as part of the retraction they should have to reveal that source.
Does that source happen to have a gap in her teeth and claim to be the governor of GA?
It's the Dem woman running the GA election office under Raffensperger.
We would need to re-educate all the reporters now. Most all but a few have spread so many lies and corruption Hell they probably believe their own fake news now!
The WP story was not retracted.
Taking back what you said was said is a retraction no matter how the WP wants to word it.