Apparently, journalists have no capacity for learning from the mistakes of each other...perhaps that ability was purged from them in college.
You know it is amazing. . .you would think after Jayson Blair. . .that ANYone so inclined. . .but no. . .they keep doing the same. Think perhaps their greatest mental block is caused by their 'college learned'- in many cases - Leftist education.
This orientation creates it's own, built in; albeit, false - intellectual and moral superiority; with a compensating arrogance that just protects these 'victims', from the realities and values that shape and inhibit their peers.
A truth that motivates others - be it politicians or. . .journalists, is by the very root of 'Leftist idiology'; absent.
'Leftism' does not encourage an appreciation of Truth; but rather the appreciation of the 'utilitarian' - whatever means to an end modus operandi - it takes; to serve the collective cause is what has value. The 'value' served; is the superior 'many' over the 'one'. The moral superiority of the group over the lesser individual. That's it!
These people are hopelessly hooked; and so, they cannot learn from their mistakes; and will not; until they are ready to appreciate the fallacy of their belief system and embrace a genuine Truth.