This is a product of a systemic issue with "journalisms'" current business model and how they're paid. Ryan Holiday sums it up pretty nicely in his book Trust

This is a product of a systemic issue with "journalisms'" current business model and how they're paid. Ryan Holiday sums it up pretty nicely in his book Trust Me I'm Lying. After reading it and having it talk about so many things I was unable to put a finger upon until now, I've become extremely distrustful of media in general. It's pretty bad actually, communities like HN or getting news directly from trusted sources on emergent networks like Twitter is really what's left. The web has spawned "iterative journalism" and floods the internet with all the bullshit that passes it's ethical standards. This met with a general lack of peoples attention spans has created a god awful state of journalism.