>I think that real journalism can happen under profit seeking organizations, because people find value in real journalism. However, real journalists don't do or

>I think that real journalism can happen under profit seeking organizations, because people find value in real journalism. However, real journalists don't do original research, they compile insights from experts. Journalists have a tendency to get it wrong when they try to add original insight in an article. Just about every person who is an expert in a field has a story about when their field made it into the news cycle and the journalists butchered some important concept. It's much much worse than this. I was once interviewed about my research by an NPR reporter. He had already decided what his story was about and tried a variety of tricks get me to say some pithy quote he had devised so he could use it on air. The problem was that my research actually debunked, rather that supported, the story he wanted to run, and the pithy quote was scientifically unsupportable. I often wonder whether some of the quotes I hear on NPR are edited versions of the interviewees saying "no it wouldn't be accurate to say x" cut down to "x".