A determined instigator could easily continue pushing modern yellow journalism with little problem under the system you propose.

They simply need choose which negative stories they print, which opinions they run. How do you frame misrepresentation vs a differing point of view? How do you call out mere emphasis on which true stories are run. Truths are still truths, right?

It's not infrequent today to see political opinions washed through language to provide reasonable deniability by those using it.

Hell, it's not infrequent to see racism, bigotry and hate wrapped up to avoid the key phrases of yesteryear, instead smuggling their foulness through carefully considered phrases, used specifically to shield those repeating them from being called out.

'No no no. Of course it doesn't mean _that_, you're imagining things and making false accusations.'