>> but that'll give the MSM a reason to claim they're being censored/shut down

According to Scalia, Sullivan vs NYT means the media

"...can libel public figures without liability so long as [they] are relying on some statement from a reliable source, whether it’s true or not.

"Now the old libel law used to be (that) you’re responsible, you say something false that harms somebody’s reputation, we don’t care if it was told to you by nine bishops, you are liable. New York Times v. Sullivan just cast that aside because the Court thought in modern society, it’d be a good idea if the press could say a lot of stuff about public figures without having to worry. And that may be correct, that may be right, but if it was right it should have been adopted by the people. It should have been debated in the New York Legislature and the New York Legislature could have said, ‘Yes, we’re going to change our libel law.’ But the living constitutionalists on the Supreme Court, the Warren Court, simply decided, ‘Yes, it used to be that … George Washington could sue somebody that libeled him, but we don’t think that’s a good idea any more.’"

Seems to me that this decision dating back to 1964 was highly relevant when the press valued impartial reporting and (for example) reported on Watergate without being smashed down. But decades passed, the internet came into being, social media came to the fore, and the MSM seemed to regard their special privilege as an entitlement to take partisan positions and taunt presidential candidates that they are powerless against the MSM, which is what the MSM did to Trump.

Can this misused entitlement be withdrawn? Sure it can, and I expect that Sarah Palin's current libel suit against NYT is just the opening salvo.

>>Right now the MSM is just beyond dishonest. They are completely consumed by Trump Derangement Syndrome, and they will not stop until they can invalidate the election. It's too late. The DNC is a bunch of delusional losers, the RNC is a bunch of cowardly morons, and the MSM is a joke.

On that charming note: get to bed! ;-)