Mainstream news organisations have to be able to stand behind their stories, they get successfully sued if they can’t. Find a professional journalist and talk to them about what has to have happened before a newspaper editor will allow your story to run at a reputable organisation. It doesn’t go straight from laptop to print I assure you.
The value of the media lies in its accountability. They have to publish corrections if they mislead. 4chan man just deletes his account and starts again with a new username.
Absolutely. Every journalist is well schooled in media law and anything slightly dodgy is pulled apart by an editor. I've been sued twice for libel: once when we had no grounds to print the story (the plaintiff dropped the case though) and the second when we did have grounds (and were subsequently proved correct but the publisher settled). I've also had to interrupt a holiday to attend a meeting with a city law firm that wanted my arse (that one was soothed over).
But those are three examples when we didn't quite get it right ... think of the many hundreds of stories where we (and other journalists) got things right: think of the phone calls made, the checks and cross checks to stand up a story. The idea that dozens of news outlet manufacture untruthful stories is a ludicrous but what's even more ludicrous is the idea that news organisations will ignore a compelling story.
I feel sorry for the Dingo view of the world, when someone's that far gone, there's no sense in trying to reason with him