[mc32]

One attempt could be forming professional associations where members get disbarred for violating principles for reporting.

It wouldn’t be perfect but could be better than what we have where there is no responsibility or accountability for misrepresenting news events.

[k_sze]

I'm afraid that in the bigger picture of modern media landscape, that's not going to have much of an effect.

Let's say you disbar some John Doe so he cannot be hired by a news media organisation any more.

There is still nothing stopping him from blogging, tweeting, instagramming, and tiktoking. I suspect that the people who really know how to spin stories and get a following don't really need to work for a newspaper at all.

What I'm saying is that the news corporations may not be as influencial as some people believe. Let me take, for example, the Hong Kong protests/riots (whatever you would like to call them). There were plenty of fake news and rumors circling around Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, etc; and those had real influence on how people viewed the protests/riots; none of those fake news or rumors had to come from a "proper" news tv station or newspaper.

[mc32]

You make a good point about that and this doesn’t solve that issue.

The issue it tries to address is the one where people are looking to find journalistic news based on confirmed evidence rather than hearsay, speculation, playing loose with statistics, posing opinionmakers as experts and driving narrative, etc.