This is implicitly true, as much as people don't want to hear that journalists aren't saints. The incentive structure in place doesn't motivate the journalism i

This is implicitly true, as much as people don't want to hear that journalists aren't saints. The incentive structure in place doesn't motivate the journalism indistry to rigorously cite or investigate sources. There's no more money in it for most publications, and no other regulatory pressure. Why would anyone believe that the first duty of a journalist today is to anything besides their publication? It's the same reason that we on HN complain about privacy violations, censorship, annoying web ads, Google AMP, scrolljacking, sticky headers, and yet we are the ones who implement all that crap. At the end of the day, we are being paid to make our companies money. Any idealism is a nice-to-have on the side, but rarely is it our delegated mission.