[untog]

> I'd like to think the solution is simple, require a license before you can call yourself a news agency

Is also something that has not worked very well, historically speaking. Who is going to give out those licenses? Government. Who does the news agency report on? Government.

[cm3]

Not the government alone, no. At some point we need to learn how to make such controlling bodies work, and I'd like to think there are already such control orgs which have proven to work.