I'm not---and never have been---a journalist, but this piece is assuming that journalists are, by and large, happy with the state of reportage today. Yes, it wo

I'm not---and never have been---a journalist, but this piece is assuming that journalists are, by and large, happy with the state of reportage today. Yes, it would be great if you could exhaustively fact check every piece, or carefully and skeptically examine every assumption and statement a source makes, but when your editor is breathing down your neck because the presses are running, and you still haven't turned in your article, standards slip. I suspect that many (though not all) of these points are things that get taught over and over in journalism school, but there are eventually quality and quantity trade-offs, and if there's little incentive for the extra quantum of quality, then it's only rational that quality would win out.