It's pretty slopping thinking to conflate reporting/analysis based on what public officials have said with inducing a deliberate panic by lying.

My whole assertion is that they've done none of the former.

They've done no reporting/analysis?

They reported a CIA officials stated interest in using consumer devices for intelligence gathering. Their analysis of that was to presume it would be abused.

It may not be deep reporting or analysis, but your suggestion that they should be fined would be more in line with how Russia runs things than the media culture of the West.

Yes, it's not deep, and it's not Russia, it's Canada[0]. This reporting is very misleading.

[0] http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/276-74/5123-fox-news...

The "lies" they're talking about are willful fabrications, not speculative analysis.

Fox News deliberately aired lies about the contents of milk in the US. They went to court to defend their right to lie.

http://www.relfe.com/media_can_legally_lie.html

I'm saying their speculative analysis is approaching (and surpassing) the line between "analysis" and "fabrication", and they should be punished for it.