to masquarade as news channels.

Reinstating the fairness doctrine will not address this.  There should to be standards for calling a station a news station.

First, the content deciders (be they publishers or managing editors) must be professionals, not party hacks and former speech writers.

Second, "contributors" need to disclose their 3 main sources of income.  Those paid by think tanks need to disclose the sources of the think tank's income.

Third, there needs to be some standard of fact checking.  Too many factual errors or egregious omissions and its labeled an opinion, not a news channel.