> A. Who specified this implied contract?

Nobody specifies implied contracts. They are implied.

In the case of the USA, from centuries of understanding that what marked the USA out as different to the European states from which people were dissenting was a commitment that power would answer to truth and constitutional protections to enable that.

(I'm a Brit but this is obvious to me)

> That’s a warning sign to the media they’ve overstepped their bounds.

If this is the way people are now thinking, then they deserve the Rollerball future they are building for themselves.