It's not the offense, it's the cover-up

[Preechr]

I'm pretty sure he was thanking Ken Starr, not calling you Ken Starr.

The media wasn't protected under the First to assure it's profitability. A profitable press has always meant a sensationalist one, at best, corrupt and dishonest at worst. I'm a die-hard capitalist fanboy, but even I see the need for regulating principle over profit in this one case. Unfortunately, that's just not something we can safely rely on government to do, as the media's primary function is to keep tabs on the government.

The teeming masses want to be entertained, not informed, and the government we are supposed to be wary of would want that, too. Maybe First Amendment protections need to be re-evalutated so as to apply only to actual principled journalists and not everybody even indirectly linked to the media. Is there possibly a measure of integrity we could come up with everyone could trust?