There was a time, during my lifetime, that the evidence of conspiratorial lying by a media outlet would destroy that outlet. Once the media outlet no longer possesses the trust of the public, there would no longer be any value in it. The Big LieMany Americans quit thinking of Fox News as “the press” a long time ago. Truth telling is the value the citizenry gets in exchange for the constitutional protections the press enjoys. Whenever that role in a media outlet effectively disappears, as in the Fox News example, those protections should disappear with it.

Source: Fox News March 14, 2023 20:50 UTC