“...basic journalistic ethics...”
You keep mentioning this concept of “journalistic ethics.” Can you please point us to the governing association responsible for assuring such ethics are, indeed, ever followed? Perhaps you can tell us the authority that certifies actual “journalists?”
Last I heard, there was no license needed for being called a “journalist,” nor was there any set of standards a “journalist” was required to follow. That’s why such a term really means, literally, nothing.
You won’t receive a reply for awhile. Football is on...