This is not a problem with "the media". This is a problem with humans. You can say the same thing about politicians, business people, teachers, anybody who ex

This is not a problem with "the media". This is a problem with humans. You can say the same thing about politicians, business people, teachers, anybody who expresses an opinion about policy in general. It's not even necessarily a fair one to hang around the neck of "the media". "The media" used to have considerably better expertise who have been shed through successive waves of buyouts and layoffs. Seriously, newsroom headcounts were cut by >1/3 in the past 10 years. That's a structural problem with the economics of media in the age of the internet (one which the media dealt with particularly poorly).