When did reporting get so lazy? Surely there should be a regulator? Maybe a league table of honesty in news reporting both the press and online – maybe a colour coding at 3 levels which ignores political bias. The Sun and Star could avoid this by being classified as comics! Hopefully the Times, Telegraph and Guardian would be top level – but then maybe the i, and the Mirror? But what criteria could be used? Named sources would be a good start, coverage of major issues and space/time commensurate with importance? Honesty is difficult, but Angela Rayner should have been able to sue the Tories who maligned her.
I wonder where the BBC, Fox News, etc. would come. It could get them to be more professional – cost? To the tax payer nothing as the organisations publishing news would have to pay a fee.