That's clearly nonsense. If journalism had "far more advanced ethics and procedures" I wouldn't find glaring errors in journalism and obviously agenda-driven re

That's clearly nonsense. If journalism had "far more advanced ethics and procedures" I wouldn't find glaring errors in journalism and obviously agenda-driven reporting so frequently. Editors rewriting things is no evidence of rigour, I'm afraid. I worked on a news story with one journalist at The Economist. I demonstrated to him that some of the claims circulating at the time on a particular topic were false and he accepted that my argument was correct. The final story made those same claims. The journalist apologised to me and said they'd been inserted by the editors (the claims in question were politically popular amongst the sort of people who write and read the Economist at the time). So I'm afraid I'm far from ignorant about journalism. I've done a lot of fact checking myself and worked with journalists many times. The level of effort that goes into correctness in engineering is orders of magnitude greater than anything journalism even attempts.