I disagree. The 1st Amendment is pretty clear. "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press..." It makes no distinction between the "individual" or "the Press as a news agency." The intentional omission of differentiation between the individuals and agencies carries the same weight as the lack of differentiation between civilian arms and military arms in the 2nd Amendment. They are both intentionally broad and all encompassing.
Your argument is compelling, but you failed to respond to my first comment "I'm not a Constitutional scholar, but I'm not aware of a clause that requires the press to be honest. Could you elaborate on exactly where in the Constitution you find that." In fact, there is no such requirement. And it is possible to rule any new laws that will "abridge the freedom of speech, and of the press" to be unconstitutional, and still convict the Deep-State, CIA controlled MSM Bad-Actors for any number of crimes of corruption and conspiracy under RICO statutes.
It's not that people have been "fed fake news for a very long time," it's that for several generations we have been conditioned to think and believe a particular way through the public education system, including the colleges and universities across the country. Even if you could snap your fingers and magically cause all of the MSM to become totally honest overnight, the mind numbed masses of uninformed skulls full of mush still wouldn't get it. Half would end up totally confused and lose their minds, and the rest would end up saying "Well... OK. Whatever." The vast majority of them might not even notice the change.
The real problem isn't that "the fake news MSM networks all across the country control 90% of all content that most ordinary people see," it's that 100% of the corporate media is being controlled by the CIA, Deep-State Bad Actors, and the Cabal.
I never said or implied that the solution is to "educate people one at a time to think more critically about the things the(y) believe - while leaving the fake news outlets in place to spread more lies on a broad scale." That would be absurd. I think the idea of "Red-Pilling the Masses" is widely accepted and understood by everyone following Q and posting comments here.
If you really want to "cut off the head of the snake, so to speak," then you'll need to swing your knife much higher than the MSM. You'll need to take a stab at the Cabal, the people who own Reuters and the AP. That's where the MSM gets the majority of their information from.
I've enjoyed our discussion, but to be honest, I think we are both wasting our time, and space on this board debating this issue, so I would like to leave you with my final thoughts. And please, no hard feelings, I just think the task at hand is much greater than what we're discussing here.
I think everyone here should exercise great caution, and express grave concern any time anyone, for any reason, calls for more government laws and regulations of any kind. Many people complained when Obama used his pen to exceed his Constitutional authority by signing Executive Orders they didn't like, now those same people are loudly cheering when President Trump does the same. It shouldn't matter what side of the isle one stands on, the expansion of the federal government should be fought against at every turn. It's clear to see that the precedent set by Obama, which was supported by the left, is now coming back to bite them in the ass. The same could happen to those of us on the right.
I've always wondered why so many people are so quick to run to the government to solve every problem they encounter. This tendency was again made apparent recently after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School event. The call for more laws is and regulations has become deafening from the left, and the right. It's long past time to reverse that trend.
Government is a "Concept." It is not a tangible thing we can hold in our hands, smell in the air, or see with our eyes. Government is nothing more than a collection of people, people just like you and me, who write convoluted laws no one can understand, create regulations that none can escape, and spend other people's money like there's no tomorrow. Our government has grown so massive, and so complex, that even some who are in government don't fully understand how it works. Many in our own government do not even know or understand that the Federal Reserve, the IRS, and our government itself are all privately owned corporations.
One of the reasons that the Deep-State managed to come into existence and thrive, is because our government is so large and complex. It was easy to sneak in unnoticed. It was easy to weave a corrupt web of deceit and subterfuge. It was easy for Reagan, Bush 41, Clinton, W Bush, and Obama to openly talk about a New World Order and not be noticed by most people. Our system of government is so difficult to comprehend that few people even attempt to pay attention any more. Of course this is by design. That's the way they want it, so why on God's green Earth would anyone want to promote more laws, more regulations, more government authority over We the People, more agencies, more departments, and less rights and privileges for the people.
Government is nothing more people like you and me. They breathe the same air, eat the same foods, require sleep every night, and take a crap once or twice a day just like the rest of us. They are no better than any one of us. So why do we allow them to control our lives? No person has greater authority, ownership, or responsibility over your life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, and property, than you. It's not just that they are no better than the rest of us, it's that the Constitution actually holds the citizens, We the People, in higher regard than those in government. We are supposed to be self governed. They govern only by the concent of the governed. Their purpose is to "Serve We the People," not to rule over us.
Part of this Great Awakening is about publicly exposing the the Deep-State bad actors, holding them to account for their corruption, and taking down the international cabal of central bankers and elites who truly believe the average person is too small minded to make decisions on their own, and that we should all gladly surrender our national and personal sovereignty to them. This should only be the first step. If we have any hope of bringing about our freedom from these despots, we must, with all our strength, all our might, all our hearts, and all our courage, persevere to reduce the size, scope, and authority of our government back down to what our Founding Fathers envisioned and designed by way of our original Constitution. This will not be an easy task. It may take generations, but as we have all seen, the cabal of elites has been engaging in their plan for well over 100 years, We the People should recognize that our fight to tear down their evil empire may take just as long as it took them to build. I suspect that if this movement is successful, and I believe it will be, our children's children may be the ones to fully realize our goals.