And I didn't do a good enough pointing out that my complaint was focused on mainstream news media as the secondary source, not expert commentary. I don't think

And I didn't do a good enough pointing out that my complaint was focused on mainstream news media as the secondary source, not expert commentary. I don't think primary sources are some be-all, end-all, standalone authority. I'm just concerned that mainstream news media is so many layers abstracted from them, but people rely on them as though they have some sort of firm enough grounding in "reality" to support a worldview.