Journalists are and always will be stupid, which is why I don't trust anything they say unless it's accompanies by a largely unedited video that I can physically see of said event, or they cite something that has no journalists in it.
Example Situation: Hypothetical plane crash happens in Iowa 1 hour ago
- Fox News: Sharia Law and Obama caused this. We need gun laws so people can guns on planes. Derp
- MSNBC: The TSA failed to do something maybe and look at how stupid Michelle Bachmann/Sarah Palin is. Derp
- CNN: [insert average leaning towards the more "entertaining" slant at the time]. Gravity is hard
***Several Days Later***
All of them: The FAA has concluded the plane flew into a flock of geese.
All I needed to know throughout all of this was:
1. A plane crashed
2. What the FAA found
The rest in the middle was sensational garbage.