Short of committing factual inaccuracy, libel or other major sins, they are free -- must be free -- to say what they wish.
Many years ago, a New York journalist wrote scathingly about City Hall, but found himself criticized for having committed serious factual errors.
And it's not just ITV that has re-committed to factual; hits such as Big Fat Gypsy Wedding (reaching 9.71 million viewers in November 2011) are also helping Channel 4's chief creative officer, Jay Hunt, keep factual shows at the top of her agenda.
For the next two years, Ralph relished the cloisters and the quiet, worked closely with the local Communist party without actually joining, and developed a distinctive arguing style - politically committed but carefully factual.
Paul Krugman, writes Donald Luskin of Palo Alto, Calif., has committed "dozens of substantive factual errors, distortions, misquotations and false quotations -- all pronounced in a voice of authoritativeness that most columnists would not presume to permit themselves".
The social and literary ambitions of those first "new journalists" had a lasting impact on journalism, providing a foundation for generations of investigative and literary reporters and editors who believed in factual, socially committed, and lively journalism including the New Journalists of the 1960s.
He provides a useful account of the controversy itself, but he also commits some odd factual errors.
Doe has already addressed some of the factual and conceptual errors committed by Vanhoenacker.
This inquiry shows that I flouted the cardinal tenets and long-established rules of relationships, and that the fabrications, lies, fictions, and factual errors that I committed are more extensive than anyone could have known.
In a statement today, Microsoft said: "Our appeal outlined a broad array of procedural, factual and legal errors committed by the district court which we believe will result in the court's judgment being reversed".
