Training and qualifications are all very well, but even the most basic training should involve what is professionally acceptable in terms of news gathering techniques, checking of facts and putting the information in context for the reader. None of this appears to be happening, with numerous examples daily, in the national media.
As for the PCC, I can only say "phone-hacking".
I grant you the same "joke qualification" applies to GCSEs, so maybe this is a sign of a general malaise.
Pilots and engineers generally lose licences, become unemployable or get imprisoned for not keeping up standards. Journalists with dodgy practices seem to be able to look forward to their own chat show in America.