On Wed, 01 Jun 2011 21:30:39 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:

>>> 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.

Depends on the lie.  Some lies certainly would be illegal if they were 
libelous (for example).

Jim

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