Because ‘journalism’ is secondary to their most important task, political advocacy.

They sleep just fine… 🙁

“we aren’t jailed for stating an opinion”
Omali Yeshitela would disagree. Donald Trump would disagree. I could list other recent enemies of the Regime, but we’d be here for awhile.

“our news outlets can basically say what they want”
InfoWars can say what they want?

“But despite biases, the government doesn’t actually own the news and control everything that’s disseminated.”
They don’t have to own the news. They’re the government. Do you want to make enemies with the entities that can regulate your business? Or do you obey? We know the answer because it just happened in 2020, after the gov also colluded with the media in 2016 to interfere in that election! See below.

Testimony Reveals FBI Employees Who Warned Social Media Companies about Hack and Leak Operation Knew Hunter Biden Laptop Wasn’t Russian Disinformation
https://judiciary.house.gov/media/press-releases/testimony-reveals-fbi-employees-who-warned-social-media-companies-about-hack

“Bring back corporal punishment.”
How is that a deterrent for a suicidal mass shooter?

“start considering just how far American morals and standards have crumbled at home.”
This is the answer. Normal, decent people want to be remembered as a good person. These shooters, and wannabe shooters, want to be known as murderers. Murder is evil. Do they want to be remembered as evil people? Or are they so lost, that it isn’t evil in their mind because they feel like it’s justified?