It's also telling that the No Kings movement succeeded despite the lack of media coverage, which to me seems like a good indication that traditional media companies aren't nearly as powerful as they once were.

Probably, but I still want to believe that one day the legal system will catch up to these fools and we will finally find out for sure who, besides the obvious, participated in that vile affair.

Yes! Discovery time!

In regards to requiring news coverage to be free, one has to ask how then do those who collect, edit/review, verify, and ultimately report on the news get paid? More, invasive, and disruptive advertising? Some sort of national or state news coverage grant program funded by the tax payers? Some other funding system? While I'm sure some way could be found to make it "work", you have to consider what impact those who hold the purse strings have over the quality, accuracy, and political leaning of the news being reported.

My point being that there are knock-on effects from trying to legislate something like that and depending on the chosen path there can be additional knock-on effects as well as potentially troubling cons (like giving a government agency far too much control over the content of news being reported) that need to be carefully considered.

Such a system would also likely need to allow for exceptions for smaller publications, such as with small, local newspapers or trade/special-interest publications with limited viewership that wouldn't be able to get enough from advertisers or qualify for any grant programs.

As for levying fines for posting inaccuracies, that again sounds nice in theory until you consider scenarios like honest mistakes or quickly evolving news stories where all the facts haven't been fully resolved at the time of reporting where it's practically impossible for reporters to be able to report a fully accurate story for days, weeks, or months later. Reporters also rely on others to give them accurate facts. Of course, reporters and their editors must be as diligent as possible in vetting their sources and verifying the facts, but there's always a chance that what seemed to be a good source turned out to be bad, or worse intentionally misleading and that's not caught before publication.

Perhaps if you limit such fines to knowingly inaccurate and misleading reporting then I think that might be workable, with the understanding that this will be creating or tasking an existing government agency with the job of investigating news reports for accuracy. If not properly setup and insulated such an agency could again be used by the government to restrict press freedom rather than enforce the actual accuracy of the news.

I can't speak for every US citizen, but as a citizen I can definitely say that while I don't want to get "even" I do want to see justice served. Those who have raped (literally) and pillaged their way to power need to be held accountable or we are just going to see more and more of this same crap in future administrations.

Of course, I fully expect that the pardon machine is going to be running at full tilt in the next few months and some may never be properly prosecuted, but there's plenty of dirt out there and lots of guilty parties, so lets start airing that dirty laundry, prosecuting, sanctioning, and generally making social pariahs of the fucks that got us into this mess.

Definitely treasonous, but it's not like he's not been treasonous before. :|

More like a Federal "Crime Generating Machine" at this point in time

The question is who is this community for; bots or people? Seriously, if bots are allowed then they will quickly overwhelm the community making actual human communication effectively impossible.

Did the leopard eat your face again?

He is most certainly a lecherous creep and quite possibly worse. That said, I do still believe in the presumption of innocence even for lecherous old creeps. It's a principle that protects us all and a right here in the US.
I do hope that one day the truth is revealed, preferably in a court of law, and I fully expect that truth to illuminate just how lecherous and treacherous that man and his cohorts really are and I certainly hope that they get their just deserts as a result.

That was my point. Of course, that's contingent upon the allegations being proven true, but at this point I'm willing to bet there's at least some truth to them.