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Re:FCC declines to punish Sinclair for its ‘must-run’ segmen... by tangent128 on Friday April 13, 2018 @02:23PM (#16832589)
Willful ignorance offers a pretty big loophole to that definition.

If you don't fact check information, nobody can say you know it's false.

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Re:FCC declines to punish Sinclair for its ‘must-run’ segmen... by chiefalchemist on Friday April 13, 2018 @03:24PM (#16833170)
Yes. Perfect actually. Then if you don't fact check it can't be presented as news.

I think also we could apply the (legal) concept of "reasonable and customary." If say the rest of the (media) industry reported X, Y and Z and you only did Y then that's not reasonable and customary.

No doubt there's grey area. But as it is, we're living in a "brown area" if you know what I mean ;)

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