Are Newspapers, Magazines and Television guilty of fraud?

Question

How many of you think they should be held responsible and sued for showing a product that is know to be dangerous or fraudulent? EX two weeks ago the federal government fined all the diet pill makers the largest fines ever levied for fraud (of course none of them worked). Yet you turn around and here is the advertisements still running and I know people who believe since these are still being aired they aren't the ones which do not work, in other words by them airing the ads they are vouching for the product. Another example are the gas savers inventions again NONE worked but yet they air. The ads for how to get rich the fine print say results not typical, but again they are aired. Look at the Q-Ray bracelet CHICAGO (Reuters) - Put the Q-Ray bracelet on the shelf along with purported baldness cures and feel-good tonics after a federal judge ruled on Friday the jewelry did not quell pain as advertised. U.S. District Judge Morton Denlow ordered QT Inc. of Mount Prospect, Illinois, and its owner, Que Te Park, to refund more than 100,000 buyers of the bracelets -- priced up to $249.95 -- and forfeit profits of $22.6 million earned between 2000 and 2003.

Answer 1

Well if I state something that is a falsehood I can be sued for slander and more. Why is it the media can knowingly post untruths?

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Answer 2

Generally, it has been held that the person *making* the claim is responsible for any deceit, but that whoever airs or publishes the advertisements is not liable.

Answer 3

Hmm...it relies upon on my temper, extremely. If i've got self assurance like understanding regarding the international greater, then newspapers, if i've got self assurance like examining approximately trend appropriate issues, magazines, and if i've got self assurance bored and all, i desire to envision those Archie comics, haha ?

Answer 4

If the price is right, they will air it!