This is a tough issue.
I am not sure the press is worthy of the current actual malice against a public figure standard.
Why should they be allowed to print lies and then later say... well we didn't publish it maliciously. It makes it almost impossible for a public figure to win.
The current actual malice standard was the correct standard when the press acted as the 4th estate and seemed to present the issues in a far more balanced manner.
Now it seems they spin or worse... they seem like Pravda was at times.
This press is run as a business we should no longer give it such free license to print lies about public figures.