>> 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.
>
>    Voluntary and voluntary... It's not good publicity if your newspaper
> gets officially reprimended by the entity that enforces the journalistic
> ethic code.

Well, that's true enough.

> Besides, the media cannot break the law either.

That's what I'm saying. As far as I can tell, there's no actual *law* 
against printing outright lies in a newspaper. It's just considered poor 
journalistic practise by some.

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