> A news org getting a story wrong is not defamation Exactly, and neither is a journalist outright lying as long as it's not harming someone's reputation. I ha

> A news org getting a story wrong is not defamation Exactly, and neither is a journalist outright lying as long as it's not harming someone's reputation. I have no idea why the author says: "I trust the jour­nal­ists, because there are still serious legal conse­quences for news orga­ni­za­tions that publish false­hoods" There are zero legal conse­quences for news orga­ni­za­tions who knowingly lie and mislead as long as they do it with a little bit of care.