You’re not insinuating that your wife is the norm in journalism i.e. Physics major?
Only to the extent that the average American reader wants something more than news nuggets. In other words, no.
The point is, generalizations don't work. For example, hatred of the MSM shouldn't blind FReepers to the fact that it's not just liberal bias that's killing newspapers--it's the fact that Americans are reading less and wanting less in-depth information. Conservative newspapers are failing, too, unless they focus on Paris Hilton's latest histrionic display. Focus on supposed stupidity of journalists is distracting from the real issues of why people pursue that field and how journalism schools are teaching it).
Besides, is it stupidity, irresponsibility, ignorance, or something else that makes journalists from this week's TIME magazine caption a photo of a HMMWV as a "tank" (I don't subscribe, but saw it in doctor's office)?