[Candor7]

I favor individual versus group responsibility in reporting truth, just the same way attorneys are individually responsible and bound by a professional canons of ethics.

I do not see this as a loss of freedom but a delineation of responsibility.

I know we have what a process already. It doesn't work simply because there is little individual , ethical responsibility, nor the political will.

Reporters should also be required to graduate from a program of education just like other professionals before being liscenced by a state organisation.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

I favor individual versus group responsibility in reporting truth, just the same way attorneys are individually responsible and bound by a professional canons of ethics.

The First Amendment favors individual responsibility to identify the truth even if someone is lying to you. Even, indeed, if most people are lying to you. Which is what we get when CBS lies about the so-called "Texas Air National Guard Memos" - and all the rest of "objective" journalism played dumb instead of savaging 60 Minutes for running with the fraudulent "memos."

People who assume that anyone is objective because they say they are objective are suckers.