[neverevergiveup]

If an engineer or an architect's design is flawed, and a bridge or building collapses - they are liable. If a physician misses a diagnosis, or prescribes the wrong drug and a patient is hurt - he/she is liable. If you go to the grocery store and they sell you tainted meat - they are liable. Why aren't journalists liable for passing off uncorroborated bs, and lies, as truth?

[joshua c]

Free market competition is the only way to modify their behavior.

First thing to do, to create opportunities for new competition, is to stop paying the existing members.

[Blue Jays]

Good point. I truly wish there was a way to comprehensively differentiate between editorial boards and newsrooms.