What Foxnews does should be illegal. Why isn't it?

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206. your original post asked a simple question: why is not illegal for Fox to do what they do

You just don't like the answer, which is that its not illegal because it is protected by the Free Speech and Press clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.

No Congress is going to pass the law you seem to desire and it won't simply be because of repub opposition. And if some future Congress did pass it (and a future president did sign it), it would be enjoined by the first court that reviewed it and that decision would be upheld, unanimously all the way up the line to the Supreme Court.

Your initial reaction to those of us who pointed out the obvious fact that it would be unconstitutional to make Fox News "illegal" was to declare that if we're right, "our country is lost." It is refreshing therefore to see you adopt a different stance in your latest post -- one that acknowledges that, in effect, that what Fox does is constitutionally protected and that the best response to their speech, is more speech exposing what they do.

As a unanimous Supreme Court stated (in a decision written by Burger, but signed onto by, among others, Marshall and Douglas): "A responsible press is an undoubtedly desirable goal, but press responsibility is not mandated by the Constitution and like many other virtues it cannot be legislated."