On Wed, 01 Jun 2011 09:14:43 +0100, Invisible wrote:

> On 31/05/2011 20:20, Warp wrote:
>> Invisible<voi### [at] devnull>  wrote:
>>> they have no /incentive/ to tell the truth.
>>
>>    Not true.
>>    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalism_ethics_and_standards
>>
>>    Many countries have organizations whose purpose is to make sure that
>> the media doesn't break the ethical standards. (Of course this doesn't
>> mean these organizations cannot be biased.)
> 
> Sure. There are voluntary codes of practise. But as far as I know,
> there's nothing to stop anybody that wants to from completely
> disregarding these at will.

In the US there are people who have lost their jobs for behaving 
unethically when reporting news.  Usually in print media, and usually for 
plagiarism.

Fox news was declined the ability to broadcast in Canada because of their 
distortion of the facts.

Jim

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