It's generous to assume that our news organisations actually do follow that kind of rigor on all non-opinion pieces all the time when there is a conflict of int

It's generous to assume that our news organisations actually do follow that kind of rigor on all non-opinion pieces all the time when there is a conflict of interest, be that political affiliation or in the presence of financial incentives. There are countless examples of bad journalism from the NYT to Vice all the way to the links of Breitbart. Look at the Scott Alexander case in recent days or looking further back the scandal around Johann Hari. I think this would be a good thing and at the very worst not worse than what we have now.