1 When the media spends months on misinformation about the Russian Connection, the media does not occupy the moral high ground. The media is money driven and can no longer be 100% trusted. The government may not be any better. There is away to tell who occupies the high ground.
2 What I would do is set up a media truth detector business or agency to protect the consumer of information, from junk food news and news with poison additives. We should treat news like we do with our food supply; information is food for the mind.
3 The one fair and objective way to do this is to analyze what was said one year ago, based on what we know today. As an example, we go back to June 30, 2016 and look at all the news and opinion from the main source of TV, internet, radio and newspaper. Since a year has past and there is water under the bridge, we can objectively compare what was said then, to what we now know ends up happening This way we can see and compare who is the best and worse sources of news. We can have daily, weekly, monthly and yearly totals; baseball statistics.
This allows free speech, but it gives us a way to inform the consumers of information, the ingredient in media driven fast food. Often the bull crap can sound good in the short term, but it will turn out to be false, when given enough time to look at the data.
4 For example, on June 30, 2016, this was a headline: Nate Silver puts Clinton odds of beating Trump near 80 percent. Today it is one year later and we know the results of the election, and we know what was said by whom. We compile a list of media sources and compare the media output data to see who was the best source of information; organic, and who were the best sources of entertainment and con job; artificial ingredients. Money and market share will force the media to get back to its roots as a trusted source of information all with free speech protected.