Of course, the premise is freedom of the press.
On the surface, in order to gain more attention, the media will go all out to investigate the truth, which is driven by money and profit.
If the media spreads rumors and fabricates, it is self-defeating.
Because readers, if you want to read nonsense, you can read novels, why buy newspapers.
One of the differences between newspapers and other reading materials is truth.
Newspapers and readers are a relationship of interest. I tell the truth, you buy it with money.
However, if a bar is inserted horizontally in this chain of interests, for example, newspapers do not need to worry about taking responsibility for their own profits and losses. Alternatively, the funding source is not provided by the reader, but by a third party.
Then the whole world is in chaos.
Newspapers lack interest appeals, anyway, printing the real and printing the fake will make money, or if the real printing has no money, printing the fake will make money.
The newspaper became the microphone of the third party. Money can turn the devil around.
It's like the police station is run by criminals, there is no justice in this world.
So morality is useless if you want to make sure the media is telling the truth and not lying.
A system must be used to ensure the independence of the media, and to block any influence of third parties on it, even the influence of advertisers.
It must also ensure a good and smooth economic channel between newspapers and readers.
Second, to encourage public awareness of genuine hunger and expand the market for newspapers.
One side has market demand, and the other side has genuine output. There is no monopoly and no external interference. This market is healthy.
This is true freedom of the press.
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