The problem is that we have no real journalism anymore. Most journalists now are keyboard warriors that just take hearsay and rumors they heard on Twitter and create a story out of it. If they don't do it, someone else will and it takes too much time to actually investigate it properly.

With the viral nature of social media, false stories become fact really quickly.

I feel like Stephen Glass (the journalist that faked all of those news stories in the 90s while working for the New Republic) wouldn't even get fired if it happened now.

I'm all for the freedom of the press, but there needs to be consequences for completely false stories that could actually hurt someone's livelihood.