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 Originally Posted by wufwugy
This is an issue I'd like to hear viewpoints on from people smarter than me. I have no clue if I think the "deliberate attempt to deceive" should be illegal or not. I don't like it, but I don't have a handle on the most important elements of the topic so I can't say whether or not it's better for it to be legal or illegal.
On one hand, free and independent press is awesome. On the other hand, I'm not sure the founding fathers envisioned something as broad-reaching and persuasive as television news. In this context it has the ability to poison a jury pool. Maybe we really have to choose between fair trials, and free press.
Ultimately I lean towards having a press that's free to spew whatever spun up bullshit it wants. But when I said "consequences", I didn't necessarily mean legally. I was envisioning something like politifact but actually got people's attention, and wasn't polluted with leftist bias
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