There’s plenty of harm in an ethics code for journalists

Latest ethics drive sweeping through nation's newsrooms fails to account for reality journalists in Canada toil under the Criminal Code and the most restrictive libel laws in the English-speaking world.

Another ethics drive is about to sweep through the nation's newsrooms. That's great, just great. Proponents of media ethics are relentless. No matter how often we ignore them, they refuse to be silenced.

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