The FCC should add warning labels to news programs

Okay, reasons and arguments why the FCC should label TV news programs displaying their accuracy and trustworthiness:1) The media has gone insane with bias, fact stretching, and blatant lying. Every journalist knows that journalism is founded on delivering the truth in the most unbiased, objective, and factual way possible, (http://en.wikipedia.org...) but you wouldn't know that by glancing at US tv programs. Everyone can see that Fox News has a clear conservative bias, that MSNBC has a clear liberal bias, that CNN is clearly incompetent when it comes to reporting news on any live event, and that all three of these news stations are guilty of fear-mongering, overly sensationalizing news stories, and spreading misinformation and disinformation, knowingly and/or unknowingly. Making news programs more accountable for the effect they have to tv viewers is for the better of everyone since more accurate news programs leads to a more informed US populace. One of the ways to bring all these news stations back towards the line of decency and unbiased reporting, (It wont bring them all the way back sure, but it'll get the ball rolling) would be to have a clear warning label on all news station programs over how much these shows can be trusted. TV news programs naturally try to get the most viewers, but if viewers gravitate towards news sources that are the most accurate and unbiased, then all those shows that show clear bias or incompetence will try to deliver the news in a more unbiased, untwisted manner to upgrade their rating, and earn lure in more viewers seeking accurate information. 2) The FCC is competent enough to accurately rate news programs. The FCC is already in charge of censoring certain curse words from tv shows during hours when those curse words aren't allowed to be said aloud, they already are in charge of making sure there isnt any nudity on tv shows that you dont need to pay a subscription to, and the FCC even has the ability to fine and even revoke the broadcasting licenses for tv programs that do not meet their standards and regularly violate them. I bring that last fact up to bring to light that the FCC is also not power-mad, as less than 1% of tv programs are not immediately granted renewal statushttp://en.wikipedia.org...The FCC is not a perfectly functioning government agency sure, but it is certainly competent enough to evaluate and assign accuracy ratings for tv news programs, and do so without any sort of prejudice aimed at the news stations they evaluate. There are programs that try to stretch the limits of what the FCC allows to be broadcasted all the time that never get shut down or punished for trying to push the limits, and because the FCC can operate without prejudice against programs that try to resist the FCC's own standards, you can also reason that the FCC can operate without prejudice against evaluating the accuracy of news programs they rate for accuracy. 3) There is a great need to take steps to reduce the political divide in this countryThe current level of partisanship, measured in this case by how frequently members of congress DONT vote with their party, has approached a level of divide that hasn't been seen since the early 1900's.http://www.bizjournals.com...Thats PRE WWI dates we are referring to, when the Civil War was still in the memory of most americans. And TV has played a huge part in that, since the surge in partisanship on the hill has taken place primarily over the Bush and Obama years:http://www.people-press.org...http://www.washingtonpost.com...As you can see from both links above, political polarization has crept upwards since the year 1997, which is funny, because Fox News happened to launch at the end of 1996, and MSNBC launched in the middle of 1996http://en.wikipedia.org...http://en.wikipedia.org...So right when the two most clearly biased tv news programs came into existence, that was nearly the exact moment when political polarization started an unending increase upwards to where it is today. I really dont need to get into why deep and excessive political partisanship both in Congress and amongst the American populace is bad for the country. That being said, cutting down on the sensationalization and the spread of misinformation + disinformation will help bring the levels of political divide back down, or at the very least it will stop it or greatly slow it from increasing further, which is for the benefit of everyone in the United States. The more polarized the nation becomes politically, the more inclined we become to tearing the country apart one news story after another. 4) Tv programs play a huge role in this country. Television is hands down the largest medium in which people obtain information about all sorts of news regarding politics, regularly being discovered as the news medium where people get their news from the most. http://www.americanpressinstitute.org...http://www.gallup.com...http://www.people-press.org...http://www.people-press.org...Yes the internet is slowly creeping up as the primary source for where people get their news, but it will take several more years before it eclipses television as the main medium where people get their news, it ever does. Because television plays such a massive role in how people get news, it is of vital importance that television be brought into line for portraying the news in an accurate, non-sensationalizing manner. It is for these reasons that the FCC should introduce ratings for news programs based on their accuracy, their competence, and whether or not they try to distort and twist facts, or blatantly state lies just to advocate a personal agenda.5) Media itself has already proven to be a powerful source of influencing America.The Spanish-American war is one of the clearest examples of how journalism can be warped and distorted into getting Americans to rush into something, since yellow journalism played a huge role in hyping up the explosion of the USS Maine that ultimately led to the breakout of war between the US and Spain. http://en.wikipedia.org...;In this day and age, America has far more enemies in the world then it did in the 1900's, and allowing an unrestrained media to try to oversensationalize news stories could easily dupe Americans into supporting an action that is very impulsive and ill-informed, which is why news-programs should be rated for accuracy. You could argue that television played a role in the invasion of Iraq in 2003, and at the current rate the political divide in the US is growing, its possible that such an event could happen again. 6) You can still choose to watch those shows that get low ratings. This resolution only argues that the FCC should label news programs for their accuracy, nor revoke the broadcasting rights of those news programs that get low ratings. Therefore, even if a news station gets a bad rating for accuracy or objectivity, people will still have the ability to watch the program, and the program will still be able to broadcast.