I've wondered about that too. Sad the MSM accepts everything without question when it's "research" from a liberal institution. Don't journalists have any sense of curiosity anymore?
No. (And I worked my last 20 years before retirement in the business.)
Journalists today remind me of the car designers - instead of doing your own work and using your own mind - you steal designs/stories from the competition. Ergo - we get mongrel cars and the same story regurgitated from the primary source through all the outlets - with no fact checking or research.
Indeed, we are now a world of second-handers.