On 27 January, UNESCO's Director-General will open the conference on "Journalism ethics and self-regulation in Europe: New media, old dilemmas".

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And for years the slow pace of technological change meant that the supply of new journalists, provided through a broad journalism or general humanities education, would slot into the marketplace with little increase or decrease in overall income.

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But the tactic appears to be wearing thin with both the public and increasingly with mainstream journalists who only recently have begun challenging the junk journalism that still prevails in reporting about GM crops, foods and animals, and genetic research in general, including in humans.

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