They are full of excuses...here's one:
"Max Suich, former editorial director for Fairfax, wrote about this in 'The Age'. He noted how these days it's much harder for journalists to get any useful party sources other than the official ones. Maybe they don't exist - party membership has shrunk and the party operations are increasingly run by professionals connnected to the leader's office. He thinks political reporting is becoming like sports reporting, all about scores and who won today's match.
This might be the new divide between the media and the public. Where the details are increasingly manipulated and controlled, the public will just turn off from the detail and reflect on the big picture."
IMO that's just what they did...didn't listen to the ideologically driven journalistic garbage and made up their own minds as to what was important...and came up with SECURITY AND THE FIGHT AGAINST TERRORISM.
Truly, this would have broken any journalist's heart.
Because, right now, there's a whole lotta reflectin' goin' on out thayuh...