Should journalist take an oath?

What if journalists took an oath to protect and serve. To seek the truth to the best of their ability. What if the nightly news started with the anchor swearing on behalf of his/her news organization that the following report is the truth as determined to the best of the organization's ability?
Would that put FOX out of the news business.

And by choosing to become an American "journalist", they should have already committed themselves to the defense and advocacy of "free speech" and "truth" -- and to maintaining the "press" as a necessary defense against governmental and societal excesses.

A fat lot of good it has done us.

And can we ever again trust any claim that they (the "mainstream" mass media) make, regardless of whether if it is accompanied by some "oath"? After all, what "truth" do we have left to compare their claims to -- the "truth" left in the propaganda that masquerades as common "knowledge" these days?

The media has broken in the face of the neocon offensive and run -- run after the almighty dollar -- and a table in the (public celebrity part of the) ruling class section.

(The questions in the subject line are rhetorical, of course.)

Or an oath to Murdoch?

Loyalty oaths just do not fit in with the American lifestyle. It makes us something we are really not. I would not have one at all even though Fox News has a virtual one already (maybe even literal in their contracts?)