OT: Eithics and the new NEWS

[Atrocities]

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
i suggest that we beat reporters over the heads with microphones.

Naw, just make them accountable finacially and criminally for every news story they publish. If the information is inaccurate, opinionated, or false, then they are responsible to make restitution to whomever their news story directly effected.

Look at what Date Line did a few years back over the Chevy trucks. Sure the chevy trucks, one in about thousdand, would explode if hit on the side, but Data Line took it one step futher and reported that ALL Chevy trucks exploded upon impact, and even facked an accident to prove it. They used movie special effects to flip the truck and burst it into flames. They got caught but nothing happend.

Look at that guy Richard Jewels who was made out to be the Olympic Park bomber and how they literally destroyed that man. He had balls though, he stood up to them and sued and WON.

If more and more people could aford to do that, or had laws to support them if they chose to do so, then the News organizations would be less likely to partake in the current tabliod, make the news, opinionated, factless babble that they current are airing to the American Public.

Just tell us the facts, let us make up our own minds.