What if we, the "civilians", put the New York Times. Washington Post and other media outlets on trial for sloppy journalism and criminal fraud used to facilitate homicide?
It should be straight-forward to demostrate that much of the journalism and many of the editorial decisions made by the leading media outlets was negligent.
The most interesting question is whether we can demostrate by a preponderence of the evidence that the Washington Post and New York Times have deliberately helped push a version of events the journalists and editors knew or suspected to be untrue.