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CMV: News should have a stricter criteria for how they’re able to report on things

I remember when breaking news came in it was always something urgent and important. Like there’s an active shooter here, or OJ Simpson is on the run from police, or there’s a tornado about to hit Alabama. I believe it was after 9/11 that news stations began using the term breaking news on a constant basis. Now they use the term breaking news go every little thing sometimes they’re be reporting on the same breaking news for days. 

Also the phrasing of things. You can report on anything as long as you phrase it as a question. “Donald trump on cocaine? Find out at 10.”

Then there’s quick reporting over accurate reporting. News stations will try to report on a story first without having accurate information then update it as they go. For example  when Kobe’s plane crash happened 5 news stations were reporting 10 different things all changing every few minutes and I don’t even think his wife knew. This was not something that needed to be reported in urgently and it could’ve have waited until the facts were verified

Overall news seems to be less about reporting on facts and more about entertainment, creating emotional content and alarmism and I think this is part of the reason stress is increase in America. Some stations do it more than other (FOX)

While I don’t think the what the news reports on should be censored, how they report it should be better regulated.
gpt
>how they report it should be better regulated.

by who?

by the government?

Freedom of the press is an essential liberty.  Its a liberty that exists to protect against the risk of tyranny.  Today Trump says that all the new media is lined up against him.  The more radical people call it a media coup against the president.  

And they aren't really very wrong.  The media does exist in part to keep the powers that be in check.  The president has to answer to NBC's fact checking and ABC's opinion pieces, etc.

Maybe you're a trump supporter and maybe your not, it doesn't matter, if you give the government power to regulate the media, eventually that power is going to be wielded by a person you don't like in a way that you don't like.  rules can be selectively enforced.  Violations that benefit the rule enforcer can be ignored.  Violations that hurt the rule enforcer can be more strictly enforced.  Does biden do Cocaine?  That's a fair and honest question, the american people deserve to know.  Does Trump?  That's a gotchya journalize and a violation of the rules.

You don't want the government regulating the thing that regulates the government.

Otherwise you are spot on.  If we had a regulatory body that was incorruptible, i'd agree with you.