Journalism needs to investigate itself,

says Kelly McBride in the Poynter Ethics Journal:

I'm waiting for journalists to apply the same level of scrutiny to themselves that they apply to other industries. At what point do we declare a systemic failure and begin looking for the weak links in a profession that is critical to the survival of democracy? When do we stop treating the revelations as unrelated episodes, instead of symptoms of a larger cancer?

(Via InstaPundit)