You are preaching to the choir...

Sometimes the chior needs a lil' preachin' to.

You can only have malpractice where there is an accepted professional standard, enforced more or less, by a closed shop union like AMA or State Bar Associations.

You can argue that jornalism is a profession, but one does not have to have a deeply professional journalistic background to become one. One does not have to belong of a journalistic association to become one. There is no journalism license, and in the absence of a license to practice, there can be no malpractice.

Okay, it's a figure of speech. Bordering on redundancy. (Like poitical chicanery.)

Degustibus,

Your comment doesn't quite pass muster for a couple of reasons.

It's like saying there is no such thing as morality since different religions, faiths, communities or groups may have no mutually agreed to definition of "morality". Morality can be defined by a person even when a universal definition does not exist.

Second, journalism is not just a profession. It is an industry that, like any other, is beholden to its customers. As customers of the media we are fully entitled to set standards for what is acceptable work product (journalism). The main reason the media is in such a shambles in this country is because it is almost unlike any other industry in having no standards body or review body that keeps it in check and protects customers from its malpractice.

"Morality can be defined by a person"

TYPICAL LIBERAL SENTIMENT!!

This is why your party is in SHAMBLES!!!

Trying to make a point that the media is not biased is like trying to hide elephant in my pajamas. My wife might argue the case either way about the elephant in my pajamas, but anyhow;

I know what I see and hear.

Before you say anything else. I absolutely know that, for example, Fox News has a conservative slant. What is wrong with that? Please don't insult my intelligence by trying to decree that most of the time the three major networks are not left biased. It is a well known fact that Tom Brokaw took certain editorial liberties with other news reporters' stories when he presented them to the world. I am not going to even mention Dan Rather. I shouldn't have to. An apple is an apple, and orange is an orange. Why is it so painful for anyone to admit, that yeah, the major networks are biased. Well, duh! All we have to do is see who is at the helm and on board at CBS, ABC, Fox, and NBC. You then pick your news accordingly, and weigh it all in the balance from all sources. Eventually, the truth comes out.