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Should anything be done? No. Absolutely not. There are some very basic First Amendment rights that need to be protected.
Let's pretend for a second that everything above is 100% true (it's not, just like no news story is ever 100% true). Essentially it means that Fox is less in the hard news business and more in the infotainment business. There's nothing wrong with either of those.
All that can be "done" is just to inform folks about the realities of what they're watching. Some folks are into big budget Hollywood shoot-em-ups. Others are into art-house films. All modern (*) news organizations fall in between those.
* modern - from circa 1875 to present.
As I plow my way "The Autobiography of Mark Twain" I'm continually struck by how little change there's been in the attitudes and abilities of the press (minus the obvious technological advances). There's little difference between the news stories of today and those of 100 years ago beyond the exclusion of sexual details.
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - B. Franklin
"There ought to be limits to freedom." - George W. Bush
"We have met the enemy and he is us." - Pogo
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