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Re:France's AMF watchdog fines Bloomberg €5M over Vinci hoax by willyt on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @10:01AM (#21814051)
And make journalism a registered profession like doctors, dentists, structural engineers, architects etc with a legally enforced professional code of conduct. Every article should be cryptographically signed by the journalist in a way that links to their professional registration. If a story is found to be inaccurate then this gets noted on the journalists professional reputation page at the 'institute of journalists' or whatever you call it, a whole bunch of stories with major inaccuracies would lead to them being struck off, to be judged by a jury consisting of other journalists, lay representatives and representatives of the legal profession[0]. If you want to use the word 'News' anywhere to describe your newspaper or website, then you must use a registered journalists and their reputation badges would need to be displayed by every article.

[0]This is how it works for Architects, I don't see why journalists should be any different given that they can influence the direction of whole democracies.

Re:France's AMF watchdog fines Bloomberg €5M over Vinci hoax by humanrebar on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @10:04AM (#21814082)
Because some bully will decide that his opponents are all liars, revoke their credentials, and ban their speech. This happens all the time around the world.
Re:France's AMF watchdog fines Bloomberg €5M over Vinci hoax by lordlimecat on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @02:02PM (#21817316)
>And make journalism a registered profession like doctors, dentists, structural engineers, architects etc with a legally enforced professional code of conduct

Here I'm thinking, "If i were a dictator, this would be a really fantastic way to control the narrative".