Part 2: Misdirected
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When journalists start talking about licensing and
credentials, at the surface, the discussion focuses on preserving and enforcing
professional standards, such as those espoused in the Society of Professional Journalists’
Code of Ethics. The thinking is that a formal rite of passage of some kind
will ensure that those standards will be held firmly and thereby raise the
quality of our craft.
