Of course lies are not protected. Of course the FCC should come hard on the, for misrepresenting as "News", and lying to the public.

Of course McQarthy should not have given them public property (the footage is owned by Congress, so it's Public), without distributing the same thing to every other network and news org equally.

But we have no laws, or at least we do not seem too interested in enforcing them, and on it goes.

The waffle point will be that Carlson is not 'news,' he's 'opinion' - a distinction POX has used before, that, despite being POX News, they are not obligated to adhere to journalistic standards in their 'opinion' programming.

It should be treated like shouting 'fire' in a crowded theater: there are some forms of expression that are not protected by the First Amendment.

It's also a problem that infects the media throughout – instead of saying, 'FOX News anchors lied,' it gets euphemized to hell and back, and the news cycle is full of what DJT or his 'lawyers' claim. I mean, 60+ court cases later, we shouldn't be hearing 'DJT claims ...,' because we now know those claims are false. We should hear that 'DJT persists in lying about the outcome.'