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If journalists don't want to reveal sources they need to take the data and confirm it in another way. If they can't then it is just heresay and rumor. It has no business anywhere except a gossip column.
Freedom of the press does not mean the freedom to spread rumor or heresay without consequences. Opinion belongs on the editorial page proper labeled as opinion and not news.
The news media in this country has so prevented the First Amendment from what it was intended that our founding fathers would not recognize the practice of modern journalism as a protected area.
Opinion, distortion and outright lies are the new standard in American journalism and I find it disgusting. When I taught my High School business class (I taught one class a day as a volunteer) I had a whole section on how journalists and advertisers distort facts and at times deliberately mislead the public and occasionally are caught in down right lies.
The only problem with the fines is they are too low. I suggest a few nights in the county jail surrounded by the scum of the earth. That brings a world of privilege into focus in a hurry.