You also have to remember that these journalists have gone through the academy when Post Modernism was all the rage in English departments and inter disciplinary studies. That means a basic disregard for truth and an acceptance of cultural relativism. But this disrespect for truth was actually a tactic used by social scientists (they are honest enough to write about it in their educational journals) to neutralize capitalist values and indoctrinate the student toward the left. Further, many students accepted their fate knowing that they would please their professors, get top marks and that they’d enter the lucrative field of journalism as a reporter for a major publication. But did they? Just the opposite — if they are lucky they’d write for Huffington Post and get paid dirt. But they’re still addicted to the activist cause, even if that means spending years in the trenches, thinking their time will come.
Money is the key word for them... not truth. Even older journalists like Juan Williams will bow to the paycheck of being a spokesperson for the left, which means that Trump can’t do anything right. The truth is there before their eyes and they are willfully blind, reciting their hateful narrative against Trump. Narrative (again from Post Modernism) and money are key... truth is not.
Partly because it is easier to brainwash someone than to convince them that they have been brainwashed. Ego blocks that information. In college, they learn that it is only their superior intelligence that allows them to understand the value of Progressive values. They are stroked constantly this way. It's almost impossible for them to let go of this feeling of being a member of a sort of intellectual aristocracy. It's the link between their lip service to equality and their deep, hidden fascination with class.