Something someone just pointed out on voat: CNN's people actually called "actors"
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Good catch.
There's also a difference between journalists and program hosts. Many people seem to think that just because a person works on camera for a news agency, such as CNN, they are journalists or news anchors.
But many of them are opinion hosts or opinion anchors. They don't have the same legal/ethical constraints that news anchors do. Because it's their opinion.
This is something that really bothers me, that so many of the public can't tell opinions from facts, and just believe someone based only on the host being on television. It's just ignorant.
News anchors don't have legal constraints outside from things like defamation laws. Take a look at Fox, they just paid nearly a billion dollars in a defamation suit, but nobody involved would be charged with a crime.
For major news organizations it would be the producer who is responsible for what goes on air. There's also something called an opinion journalist.
Legal restraints are rather important when suing someone for slander and libel.
Those are civil not criminal and they apply equally to opinion hosts and regular news hosts.
There's no difference.
You might want to go tell all those lawyers who have sued "opinion hosts/anchors" for slander and libel cases only to lose because judges/juries determine that opinion hosts are not held to the same levels as news hosts. There are actual laws on the books detailing the difference between news/journalism reporting and opinion hosts.
They might only be civil cases, but they can cost you millions of dollars.
There most certainly is a legal difference between the two. An important one.
I don't understand why you're arguing there aren't. What is it about this that bothers you, specifically?
Do you believe opinion anchors should have the same credibility as news anchors? Because that's the impression I'm getting.