The writer brings up a good point at the end: is it time for some kind of media watchdog? How could such a thing be funded and set up without any conflicts of i

The writer brings up a good point at the end: is it time for some kind of media watchdog? How could such a thing be funded and set up without any conflicts of interest? The Times does have its problems but so do many other news outlets today. With the impeachment proceedings currently happening, its become more apparent. Journalists write half-baked reports or stories that are simply not true, regardless of their political biases. Of course, the next day, they'll issue corrections to these stories but as the saying goes: "A lie travels halfway round the world before the truth straps on its boots". These journalists are in constant competition to get the story out before others and the quality and integrity of the journalism sometimes suffers because of this - to get the story out faster, they will fail to follow all the threads and verify that the information they have is actually true. Not to mention, though corrections are issued when errors occur, they don't have to give any of the advertising money back - this to me seems like a set of bad incentives.