I honestly question if there's any ethics left in the lame stream media; quite rightly, I also question what their standards have become.
It certainly doesn't resemble anything I was taught while working on my school paper in High School back in the 80s, and it doesn't reflect those I admired when contemplating a career in journalism...
I've been thinking of going back to school and one option was journalism - although I don't think I could stand working for hardly any of these news outlets!