Are you serious? Freedom of the press and journalism is about finding the truth to the best of your ability and reporting it. Not to accept some idiotic and utterly absurd assertion without the slightest shred of support and accept it as correct because the "journalist" knows that the halfwits in the FOX audience will buy into it.
And the reason it's important comes from the American Press Institute:
The purpose of journalism is thus to provide citizens with the information they need to make the best possible decisions about their lives, their communities, their societies, and their governments.
In other words, the antithesis of FOX "news"..... Originally Posted by timpage
Also the antithesis of CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, etc. none of the MSM report news. They select and spin. Yes, that includes FOX.