My understanding of what might be going on here is broken telephone with intent. A reporter gleans only a subset of information from a given body of research, t

My understanding of what might be going on here is broken telephone with intent. A reporter gleans only a subset of information from a given body of research, then ends up reporting only on what portions they consider to be essential. The end result loses nuance and context. I don’t think reporters want to be doing this, but society doesn’t incentivize serious reporting in of itself.