I’d published some very successful articles in the local paper. Because it had no conservative voice, I proposed an editorial page column. The editor was appalled. She told me that only “specially educated” people who were actual employees of the paper could be trusted to write on politics. She implied that only those people understood politics. Then, she showed me an entire wall of file boxes and told me that they’d advertised for a reporter and those were the resumes they’d received from journalism majors...hundreds...at least.
I realized that the nations colleges were turning out hundreds of times the journalists required by the declining dinosaur media. Most of those students will be paying down student loans for decades while working a menial day job. They all wanted to be Woodward and Bernstein, which, judging by the paper’s writing, is a gotcha-style of journalism that creates the impression of a Watergate scandal for every local event regardless of how mundane it is.
see my post #14... agrees with your point