CaroleC wrote, "Didn't we used to have laws or something that were supposed to make it illegal to pass propaganda off as "news"?"

Yes, we did. Before 1791.

Help me out here. As I understand it....In the 50s, we couldn't trust the government cases against the Rosenburgs or Alger Hiss. In the 60s and 70s, we couldn't trust the government to monitor the Weather Underground, the Black Panthers, the Yippies, or the Symbionese Liberation Army. In the 21st Century, we can't trust the government to run Guantanamo or to monitor overseas calls to suspected terrorists. We can't trust the military. We can't trust the CIA. We can't trust the FBI. We can't trust the Securities and Exchange Commission. We can't trust the FDA to regulate drugs.    We can't trust the FCC on issues of public morality. We can't trust any agency of the government to censor "Kos" or THE NEW REPUBLIC or "AirAmerica" or Michael Moore or Keith Olbermann or Stephen Colbert or CBS or Code Pink or ActUp or Greenpeace or NARAL or even Mudcat. We are to "let a thousand flowers bloom", as Chairman Zedong was wont to say. We are to question authority.

But we CAN trust the FCC to shut down the most popular news organization in the US. Is that it?

Or do we need a new organization to replace the FCC and muzzle the Fox? If so, we need a name for it.

How about "The Star Chamber"?

Kent