Journalists have no responsibility or power. We can only criticise, embarrass or ridicule. We can inform. People either listen to us or they don't. We don't have the power to raise taxes, or destroy jobs, or send people to prison, or tell people when they can buy a drink.
Politicians do - they are a breed apart.
It's typical political correctness gone mad, but I really don't want to get involved in a row on the Internet. These people want to deny free speech. I make jokes about gays, of course I do. They're trying to proscribe what you can say.