[onemorepassword]

The main problem is not that it's easy to dupe an individual journalist. This can never be completely avoided, and making it less easy is a solvable problem.

The big red warning sign is the lack of corrections. This shows how little the media actually cares.

It's like a web service being hacked and having their plain-text passwords exposed, and openly and blatantly refusing to improve their security practices.

And unlike most other industries, there's no force to correct them. Democracies are understandably reluctant to regulate media strongly, and exposing this problem is traditionally the role of... the media.

Other than the business model falling apart because people are no longer willing to pay for media, they are untouchable.

[Fargren]

What's more, should any power try to correct this, it's in the hand of the media to demonize this power in the public eye. We are currently living such a situation in Argentina, where the greatest agglutinant of the opposition to the current government is Clarin, the greatest media group of the country.

[sea6ear]

Related (?) http://xkcd.com/250/