[missycocopuffs]

Sometimes I wonder if it’s ‘agenda reporting’ or just plain reporter laziness...or maybe journalism training doesn’t stress fact and source checking anymore?!

[GAB-1955]

It's a little of both. Experienced reporters and editors - not “journalists” - have left the field or retired. Younger writers lack the facts and haven't developed the means of filtering nonsense from truth. The lack of revenue and high cost of production of MSM means that those high-cost editors and fact checkers are not hired or fired. There is constant pressure to produce now, produce now, produce now! Therefore, much more sloppy work goes out than used to.

Even in the days of Watergate and the Pentagon papers, the New York Times would not have produced an error-filled obituary for Walter Cronkite. If ever there is irony, there it is! Perhaps the old reporters were biased, but they could spell, use correct grammar, and knew the English language. The only radio personality these days who is proficient with English rhetoric is Rush Limbaugh!

[Still Thinking]

Sometimes I wonder if it’s ‘agenda reporting’ or just plain reporter laziness...or maybe journalism training doesn’t stress fact and source checking anymore?!

Well, why would J-school de-emphasize adherence to facts? Because it would get in the way of.....agenda reporting, which they ARE trying to teach. So whether on an individual or systemic level, the culprit is the same.