Part of this is not the journalists fault, though. Or it is, but only in the sense that they should be more adversarial. Very often when I read bad journalism,

Part of this is not the journalists fault, though. Or it is, but only in the sense that they should be more adversarial. Very often when I read bad journalism, it's based on a bad academic paper in which the university press or even the paper's abstract has lied about what's actually inside it. To fix this would require journalists to both read and understand the contents of every paper they base a report on. Arguably they need to do that, but, I don't believe that's ever been the standard used before. They generally don't expect "respectable" people like academics, institutional spokespeople etc to flat out lie to them even though it keeps happening.