No, but the broader idea of sensationalist journalism wouldn't have been a foreign concept. At any rate, there is a process for amending the Constitution, so i

No, but the broader idea of sensationalist journalism wouldn't have been a foreign concept. At any rate, there is a process for amending the Constitution, so if you want the First Amendment to change such that the federal government has a clear mandate to do this sort of thing, feel free to campaign for that. But just repeated violation by the state is not that process.