Agree completely, but the journals do have some power here - they could stop the journalists writing bullshit. But they like the attention the media coverage br

Agree completely, but the journals do have some power here - they could stop the journalists writing bullshit. But they like the attention the media coverage brings so they don't do that (and then they blame the journos). And of course the journals could make the scientists reframe their papers so they're not catnip for journos.