>Joking aside... Perhaps good old libel laws should be brushed up and revamped, so if you publish
>banana story which gets debunked as lie, you could be liable for some big bucks. If that was the case, majority of them would go out of business in no time.
>As it stands now lying is apparently still legal.

The right to lie was defended as 1st amendment issue. Look up Akre case, when Fox news refused to publish a report by its own reporters, because it was about milk production and the dairy industry is a major advertiser. They went all the way to supreme court, IIRC, and pretty much proved that sticking to truth is stifling freedom of speech.

Which then brings the reporters' freedom of speech into question - if Fox has the right to lie, do the reporters have the right to publish the truth they learned on the job? How does any NDA score against freedom of speech?