Anyone can make stuff up. I'll happily make up 19 different things and tell it to you with a straight face, all before lunch. It seems like the whole point of

Anyone can make stuff up. I'll happily make up 19 different things and tell it to you with a straight face, all before lunch. It seems like the whole point of elevating a field of activity and dignifying it with a fancy term like journalism is that it has some sort of standards. Otherwise, what good is it to anyone? If it doesn't have standards, then we should just call it "people making up random stuff" instead. Then at least we'd be describing things with a bit more accuracy.