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DrCaleb; Absolutely. But I meant for reporters. They are free to lie or try to pursuade. It's free speech. Suggesting we hang reporters who say things we dislike is something I only hear of from Middle Eastern shitholes or the Khmer Rouge or something.
Ah, ok. But I understand Bart's frustration as well. Just watch any US news for a while, you will see his point. To call what appears on the 6 o'Clock news a 'reporter' is a bit of a stretch. To call what populate Cable News networks 'journalists' is also insulting to actual journalists. They add nothing to the sum of human knowledge, and can easily be replaced with a few cat videos.
Woodward and Bernstein, Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, Jason Szep and Andrew R.C. Marshal - these are Journalists. It's not about 'free speech' with a journalist, it's about getting to the truth of a story.
And Bart is frustrated with those who do not tell the truth, but instead use 'free speech' to try to make us think they do.