Is it legal for news outlets to keep posting false headlines?

For example all the headlines were that the ';BODY'; of the missing grad student from Yale was found in the lab building. I kept reading the articles wondering why they didn't describe the condition it was found in and the details. One hour later and the headlines all read Evidence Seized but Still No Sign of Missing Student with the identical articles below. Should they not be fined for false headlines?Is it legal for news outlets to keep posting false headlines?
the news has become more of a social gathering of opinions, nothing substantial is reported - who ever has the loudest mouth or the most plastic face and breasts gets to tell the 'news'...notice how they nw report from couches set up to look like fancy living rooms!?


geeez, people are so vain!


can we please just get un biased information from you people with out all the drama and opinions of your ego.





this is why you should never expect to be told the truth, they do not know how to report the truth, only their opinions, what they are told to report, nothing factual, only drama to evoke some feeling to increase ratings for their news SHOW.





As far as newspapers are concerned, they are more reliable however accountability is not an option, so for those headlines you speak of, protection of speech favors them in this case...?Is it legal for news outlets to keep posting false headlines?
It is not responsible, but the press rushes to get the ';news'; out first. They hope they're right. It is not illegal and there are no fines for getting it wrong. I believe the idea is the media lives on their reputation for accuracy and that will keep them from making big mistakes. But in the last decade it seems that people move on to the next story so fast that fact checking has frequently gone by the wayside .
Maybe it should be a fine for misinformation, but the only problems with that is that the News is out to get whatever they can as fast as they can. So because they don't do their research a lot of times they get it wrong.





Kinda like President Obama does when he is trying to shove all these programs of his through without knowing what is actually in them and how they are going to work.
The news has been reporting all morning that a body was found on campus. Then I watched a news conference saying no body was found. The poor student's family must be frantic. No one can seem to get it straight.





We have freedom of the press and they cannot be fined, unfortunately.
I like Hopes answer, it is more of a social Society thing now, that they are run by Obama.

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