Most people have the notion that journalists build some level of expertise in a topic and interview multiple relevant experts before offering their honest take

Most people have the notion that journalists build some level of expertise in a topic and interview multiple relevant experts before offering their honest take which, although as vulnerable to human error as anything, has incorporated feedback from principal sources. The fact that most journalism is aggregating snippets from press releases and recombining them into a particular favored narrative stance is surprising to many and takes away from the imagined value that journalists add.