Can the US media lie with impunity?

I am pretty sure I already know the answer is yes. I ask this in regards to the Montana reporter getting shoved/punched/whatever.

Can we talk about how the media is swaying an election in Montana within a 24-hour window, based on eye witnesses and audio, no video. Does anyone know for sure what the fuck happened? (Other than who was actually there to see it.)

Also, it isn't a crime if they lie about it to the public, right? The media legally can tell a lie, I am pretty sure. They do it all the time, usually carefully. My point is that they aren't liable unless they get sued. I don't think there is any crime for "fake news" yet and most of all it isn't a crime to lie, unless under oath, to a police officer, in relation to an investigation, etc. But if you're speaking to the public about the incident, you can pretty much say whatever you want, right? Legally, I'm saying. The only remedies would be civil, not criminal.

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Yes there was a court case in 1997 and that is the legal precedent. The media is allowed to lie. I am not a lawyer so I can't explain it. Can we get some Gorilla Mindset level analysis here?

jesus fucking christ does nobody here believe in kek anymore? doesn't 666 mean anything to you? it means something to the Jews... star of david, six pointed star, draw it with a 6 sized shape and 6 lines, makes 6 points.

Lying to the police can be a crime. Filing a false report, perjury, obstruction of justice, the law takes a dim view on being lied to. Lying to your viewers is not. It's what the right wing media has done for decades, like wherever you got the idea this is a fake news story. Gianforte made the story by acting like a roid raging simian in front of a bunch of people.

I think people need to realize how many leftist agents there are in the media. I'm not just talking about useful idiots...there are people who will do anything to get into the big kids CFR/Rockefeller club so they can do the bidding of the media.

I remember some piegate researcher found that Tamera Luzzatto--the one who pimped out her kids for the podestas--had several WaPo and NYT reporters as Facebook friends.

You also can't ignore the close ties between Soros/media matters and the European media elite. If you look closely they all host parties for each other and rarely if ever does any dirt get revealed about any of them. A good example is how the family who sold Oxycontin is not only free from criticism, but they actually host parties filled with yes men from 30 Rock and CNN.

My guess is that there was a silent takeover at the Guardian during the Glenn Greenwald era where European deep state types added Globalist stooges to the staff and now work to sway elections and push the climate change meme for the DNC mafia and the EU.

If you look into certain journalism schools (esp on the west coast), youll begin to see direct lines to the DNC and the global Satanist Agenda. Makes me sick.

Fox has built an entire media juggernaut based around telling complete falsehoods to their viewers. Hell, Fox went to court to defend their right to lie on the air.

what is up with CNN people using the term "falsehoods" all the time. it is like they're poorly educated and try to sound smart by sticking to a few fancy sounding words they heard some smart white people say when they were growing up.

Like I see Don Lemon and he uses the word "falsehood" like five times in one clip. Can't he figure out another word. Why are they pushing "false hood" is it perhaps because a house is not a home and this country is really no longer a home to anyone as long as the spirit of it is crushed, it has just become a house of economic activity. the soul is pretty much gone. so by saying falsehood all the time, it is like, fake neighborhood, fake communities, fake home. that is the association at least on a subconscious level.

keep in mind that the CIA does more economic and cultural warfare than james bond stuff. and many of those cultural projects go for up to decades, and the effects of them are still being seen today.

There was a Ted talk on the subject basically arguing the us needs a "duty of care" standard on the media because it is basically100% lies.

This is because there is no truth just bias. Due to cognitive defects the average person is incapable of reason. Therefore truth is irrelevant, only instilling the correct bias matters. Aka cultural marxism.

Also a redpill - the Internet is just trashy daytime tv an a huge scale. None of this shit is real its just the exploitation of human cognitive defects.

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Your are literally the white trash guest on Jerry springer and the audience falling for the spectacle because you are stupid.

The whole incident appeared to be a setback, a very desperate act by Democrats.

The liberal reporter could have tried something gay to elicit this response... pinched his ass, touched his dick, tried to kiss him.

All they did is a hoopla. They don't care that video disproves their account tomorrow, as long as it influences the vote today,

a "set up" not "setback."

Not with impunity, but yes they are allowed to lie. Like many other governments. The only question is how far your country's legislation allows them to go.

Considering the consolidation of media, and the greater consolidation, nearly every relavent part having strings to a very few at the top -not to mention Infiltration by intel- there is little doubt the mainstream media could function at a loss and still keep chugging along subsidised as a useful organ of a larger operation.

Yup. Because of the Smith-Mundt Act of 2013. They media does not have to tell you the truth about anything. Ever.

Oh damn, thanks user I forgot about that one. I did a search for "precedent media can lie" and found a few things. One of which was en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Akre and there are other famous lawsuits. But I forgot about Congress... those bastards!

I miss the journalists like Upton Sinclair. He wrote nearly 100 books and exposed the meatpacking industry. Unfortunately he was a socialist. I guess I am okay with socialism tho, as long as it is national socialism.

DURRR LIES ARE ONLY OKAY WHEN THE PEOPLE I SUPPORT DO IT

No dude, I don't want to be lied to by anyone. I'd rather know the facts that go into a situation blind.

>The country of black intellectuals

>ITS ANOTHER Sup Forums PREACHING TO THE CHOIR THREAD! WE NEEDED MORE OF THESE! COMING UP, ARE BLACK PEOPLE NIGGERS? ARE WHITE PEOPLE THE SECRET MARGINALIZED RACE? IS HILLARY EVIL? YOU ALREADY KNOW THE ANSWERS BUT HOW WILL YOU SLEEP AT NIGHT UNLESS YOUR WORLD VIEW AND NARRATIVE IS CONSTANTLY ACKNOWLEDGED!

>I don't think there is any crime for "fake news" yet
Actually this would pretty clearly be libel.

Libel isn't a crime usually, it is tort law, civil courts, about money not criminality. Unless it is criminal libel...some states have this law on the books but they are older and rarely prosecuted. against the press, wouldn't the 1st amendment protect them? Washington State found its criminal libel law to be illegal for this very reason, so... no. Fake News is not a crime, or at least it has not yet been prosecuted (as far as I know).