Pretty hard to underestimate the accuracy of a journalist...
I have had to unlearn SO many things because I thought journalists had a clue. I couldn’t have been more wrong.
LOL! A Baltimore radio talkshow host 20 years back used to say, “Take a newspaper article about a subject of which you have some knowledge. Count the mistakes. Now imagine reading about a subject about which you know nothing. How confident are you that you are getting the straight story?”
I try to remember that whenever the Press is trying particularly hard to ‘push’ a story.