Before everyone starts yelling, this is just a curiosity question - not one I intend to follow through.
I have noticed a lot in the past few years how news channels in the United States - namely Fox News, CNN and MSNBC are reporting the news at a slant. It doesn't take a genius to figure out which side of the political spectrum they are on. This is not news, rather opinion.
Can a station that claims to be a legitimate news source be sued for not reporting the entire story, for using language that skews the story or for outright lying when reporting? We all know that numbers are embellished on both sides to fit their agendas.
For example, if one station reports there were 2000 protesters at a rally and another reports there were 200, both could obtain their numbers from "reliable" sources, but neither will report the other's numbers - depending on the story they are trying to tell.
I think that these "news" sources have a responsibility to report the entire story and let the reader/viewer decide, not to be spoon fed an idea that can then be parrotted 100 times in the course of a day on the never-ending repeat news.
I have noticed a lot in the past few years how news channels in the United States - namely Fox News, CNN and MSNBC are reporting the news at a slant. It doesn't take a genius to figure out which side of the political spectrum they are on. This is not news, rather opinion.
Can a station that claims to be a legitimate news source be sued for not reporting the entire story, for using language that skews the story or for outright lying when reporting? We all know that numbers are embellished on both sides to fit their agendas.
For example, if one station reports there were 2000 protesters at a rally and another reports there were 200, both could obtain their numbers from "reliable" sources, but neither will report the other's numbers - depending on the story they are trying to tell.
I think that these "news" sources have a responsibility to report the entire story and let the reader/viewer decide, not to be spoon fed an idea that can then be parrotted 100 times in the course of a day on the never-ending repeat news.