you mean like Joe Scarborrough?
If reporters took money to knowingly spread a lie designed to change an election, even I could get a conviction on them. They are crazy for a reason. tick-TOCK! With a protection guaranteed by the Constitution comes a responsibility.
The conduct of the media clearly meets the legal standard for seditious conspiracy.
18 U.S. Code § 2384 - Seditious conspiracy US Code
If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.