We The People deserve to hear the truth and know when we are being told the truth. News organizations have a duty to uphold ethical principals of journalism and communicate facts, not fiction.
This petition proposes:
1) news organizations and news channels declare each program, at the beginning of each program, as:
a) entertainment with the intent to convey opinions and not facts; or
b) journalistic news with the intent to report only facts, not opinions;
2) a $1,000 fine for every untrue statement communicated during journalistic news programming;
3) a $10,000 fine for every journalistic news program that fails to correct its mis-statements within a 24-hour period;
4) programs self-declared as entertainment (1a) at the start of their program will be exempt from 2 and 3 above.