This attitude is exactly why people don't trust journalists (and that's a fact, check opinion polls). You flatly reject even the very idea that journalism can i

This attitude is exactly why people don't trust journalists (and that's a fact, check opinion polls). You flatly reject even the very idea that journalism can improve or become better. Yes, selection of facts is a place where bias can enter. But parking that issue for a moment, modern journalism is awash with false claims, retracted stories and repetition of clearly wrong statements made in interviews or by sources. In many cases, basic knowledge of statistics or even just using common sense would be sufficient to challenge the source, check the claim and drop it - but it doesn't happen. There's such a vast gulf between the rigour you find every day in engineering and the mental sloppiness you find in journalism that I'm not even sure journalism can be reformed: your own post here indicates you never even tried.