IMO this won't stop until someone with a good amount of cash sues one of these mainstream outlets for slander/libel/defamation and wins, taking down the outlet,

IMO this won't stop until someone with a good amount of cash sues one of these mainstream outlets for slander/libel/defamation and wins, taking down the outlet, Gawker-style. The larger the target, the better. I'm all for freedom of the press, but in recent years there's complete lack of accountability, where people write complete bullshit, _knowing_ it's not true, to chase the clicks or score political points, and then retract it on the back page days later, or not at all. And of course, nobody reads the retractions. There needs to be a modicum of fact checking applied to all this, as it was, say, 20 years ago.