The Journalist Who Lied

In my opinion if a journalist tells lies, the consequence for him\her should be not being able to publish there work, sure they can write as much as they like, but until its from a truthful source, they should not be able to make money off of lies. If fined, the right way to return the money would be to individually deliver a check to each buyer of the book, because no one would want to pay for untruthful work. They should fine both the author and the company who is adding additions as well as making the published possible because basically authors who do this are stealing. I definitely do not think sending the lying author off to prison is right, I think that would be a bit too extreme. Yes, they are stealing from us but they still put time and clearly a lot of brains into the thinking behind the story. I definitely do not think they should be able to profit from movie or book deals because they are doing something completely and utterly wrong so why on earth should anyone reward them? They are putting a false front up to the world and that most definitely is not acceptable.