A lot of newsroom editors and journalists would be better off if they read this article. It explains how journalism should be, but unfortunately not how it is.

A lot of newsroom editors and journalists would be better off if they read this article. It explains how journalism should be, but unfortunately not how it is. There are exceptions of course - the Economist springs to mind. Unfortunately a lot of journalists don't live by the points set forth in te article. "A journalist is obsessed with the Truth." and "A journalist is a skeptic (and often a critic)." for instance are a joke to anyone who's seen their press releases copied into an article more or less word by word. I know a few journalists, and they do indeed strive towards high standards. The problem is that since most news corporations, as we all know, aren't doing very well they're under pressure to churn out articles at an ever higher rate. And the journalism suffers. There is just no way they can churn out five well researched, skeptic, truthful articles every day. Unfortunately for news organisations this is a bad spiral: Worse reporting leads to fewer readers which lead to cutbacks which lead to worse reporting.