How can you blame journalism when the nature of those data requests is such that in some cases companies (and even politicians) cannot talk about them, cannot f

How can you blame journalism when the nature of those data requests is such that in some cases companies (and even politicians) cannot talk about them, cannot fight them in court and they do not have to be approved by a judge? This leaves a lot of space for speculation, how can somebody possibly know if they didn't request a bulk copy of all Facebook data? Or issue a billion seperate requests when by law nobody can talk about the count and scope of those requests. If I were a journalist, the first thing I would question is if they did exactly this, because they wrote a law that allows exactly this type of behaviour.