When something newsworthy happens, like many civilian deaths around a food truck, people reading the news want two things: they want the truth, and they want it

When something newsworthy happens, like many civilian deaths around a food truck, people reading the news want two things: they want the truth, and they want it now. I agree with you that good journalism seeks the truth first of all - but that takes time and if everyone else is talking about that truck today, your news outlet has to feature that story too somehow. Maybe we'll have a proper investigative report on that truck in a week, or a month. I remember that earlier in the war, when some kind of rocket struck a hospital in Gaza, Israel and Hamas also blamed each other - then President Biden said as far as his intelligence goes, it was Hamas and I think that's the consensus now? We might never know for sure, but in the immediate aftermath of the hit the options for a media outlet were basically "we don't know" or "it was definitely the side we don't like". The truthful answer until someone's done the investigation is the former, but that gets you the kind of article on CNN that you're pointing out.