[Widget Jr]

No one in the press really knows what Ukraine or Russia are going to do now. So they collectively puts out stories covering all angles so they can deny they were wrong and/or claim they were right all along. When most of them have no better idea of what’s going on than their readers.

[Salman]

That is the primary deception of all "mainstream" journalism.
It applies even when there is nothing controversial about a story.

That is the implicit lie that they know what is going on.