ASNE is unlikely to achieve its stated goals as believe its mostly lipservice. In recent times, they have spent the last few years voluntarily agreeing to change stories or withhold information at the request of government on a number of issues. Many of those times, they should not have. I think the watchers no longer watch, but only talk about it in rote habit to keep up appearances.

Journalism is in a very interesting stage. The longer term effects of consolidation are being found out while, at the same time, citizen journalism is experiencing a mass rejuvenation via the internet. In fact, I think that goes hand in hand with your previous post about the much predicted death of blogs.