“To produce news, you need professionals who understand the standards needed to research, report and write on what happened.”
Your problem is precisely that you DON’T understand the standards. The news coming to us from newspapers across the country these days is not only biased, it is, quite simply, very poorly written. It’s as if no one’s heard of who, what, when, where, why, and how. Reporters drone on and on with their personal opinions, their “insights” and endless verbiage intended to inform the reader NOT what happened, but what he should THINK about what happened. This sort of pseudo-intellectual self-regard is both supercilious and vastly irritating.
“If newspapers die, reliable information dries up.”
Pure, unadulterated bullsh*t. There will always be newshounds, whatever their medium.
It’s like how they say there will be no artists or musicians if the government doesn’t give them $40,000 grants.