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Re:What If the Newspaper Industry Made a Colossal Mistake? by return0 on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @07:42PM (#12739735)
Add to that , journalists may get fired but dont go to jail for spreading lies.
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Re:What If the Newspaper Industry Made a Colossal Mistake? by cma on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @01:46AM (#12741375)
There is a law on the books for that, though I don't know of any journalists who have been prosecuted:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making_false_statements

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