It’s unreal isn’t it? People get a general idea of what it might be like but if they ever saw it in action, no one but a kool aid kid would EVER trust a single thing they saw/read from a news outlet.
If a journo tells you water is wet, check to make sure. and that’s the truth. My fave was the standard speech from the Eds. Several I’ve worked with pretty much said the same thing. “This is how ‘I’ do things...”
And truth and honesty be damned. Out of all the journos I ever worked with, I can say one for certain was honest and one other was ‘situationaly’ honest. The rest were total hacks.