The analogy is a bit flawed, it's more like: An underpaid and overworked journalists is sent to report on this new "Elephant" animal that's been the discovered

The analogy is a bit flawed, it's more like: An underpaid and overworked journalists is sent to report on this new "Elephant" animal that's been the discovered. Being overworked and underpaid all the journalist can muster is a quick look at the back side of the animal over the shoulders of the crowd. Then the journalist quickly has to get back to writing his story, because he gets paid by the word and the deadline is looming. Having glanced the elephant's back side, the reporter knows it's sort of like a giant gray pig. But he also knows that's not interesting enough and he thinks his readers are a lot stupider then him. So he writes the story about a giant gray man eating pig. And that's Journalism!