I worked in the media for many years. As bad and as stupid/unqualified as you think ‘journalists’ are, I assure you you have no idea. And you don’t really want to know. You might think you do, but trust me. I know. And that knowledge haunts me every time I read a news article.
I know the ‘thought process’ that goes into an article like this. The plagiarism, the google searches on gun control sites, calls to ‘unnamed sources and such...the same sources that will be picking them up from work to go home, ot the ‘source’ sitting in the next row of cubicles...
The dishonesty, ignorance ...believe me. you don’t really want to ‘know’. And as bad as you imagine it to be, it is far worse.
‘swhy I left the scribbling profession and went into sales.