The news is a special product

In the U.S., if any drug companies want to market and sell their products, they have to ask FDA for the approval of their drugs first. There are many other things need to get the government authority agencies’ approval before they put into the market. But the news which is produced by the newspaper and the broadcast companies is the exceptional one.

Since we have the freedom of the speech here, basically we can say what we like in the newspaper, radio and TV. People can not accuse the news publishing and broadcasting industries for any damage because of the fraud they make. From time to time, the news publishing companies mislead reader and viewer. But they get away without any punishment. I wonder why the government does not put a fine in any company that products wrong news. Though we have the Bill of Rights, the publishing and broadcasting companies should take the responsibilities for their news products. In fact, the news is not a product of fact-based but a product of ideal-based. Even that, they can not just make up something that do not happen. Unfortunately, we have seen many of these things happened. The government should set up an agency to watch over these things for the sake of health of the publishing and broadcasting industries.