> Journalists should be in a structure that strongly incentivizes telling the truth and strongly punishes false information. It is very unclear that US media outlets, almost all of which are highly politicized, have this property.

Really?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Rather#Killian_documents

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Williams#Iraq_War_helico...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_M._Thompson#Reporting_sca...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayson_Blair#Plagiarism_and_fa...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lara_Logan#Benghazi_report_apo...

https://www.timeout.com/chicago/tv/how-a-horrible-decision-c...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Finkel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Glass#The_New_Republic