He's making criticism of the media as a whole. It's not an indictment of the individuals as much as it is the system although the individuals are complicit in c

He's making criticism of the media as a whole. It's not an indictment of the individuals as much as it is the system although the individuals are complicit in creating the atmosphere & programming. They might "care" about their work, but the fact that they all-too-commonly deteriorate into fear-mongering & tragedy porn means nothing more than a startup with great employees and really nice guys with great intentions who fail to create revenue. > There probably won't be any meaningful updates for a couple of days: but the TV channels and newpapers have to fill the dead air somehow, to keep the eyeballs they've attracted on the advertisements, so they cobble together anything they can grab—usually talking heads speculating without benefit of actual information. Calling out people for doing a poor job of their job isn't being "mean" as much as it is stating facts - no matter how much said employee "cares" about their work.