General Discussion

We're only talking about half a dozen stories, but every story had numerous, inexplicable mistakes.

I used to think journalists were either incompetent or lazy, but now that I have more experience as an engineer, I understand that the journalistic process is just not designed for correct, accurate reporting.

There's often very little time for careful research and there's usually no quality assurance process. An editor may review for style and such, but typically not for content. Certainly, if the reporter got someone's age wrong, the editor isn't going to be able to fix that unless it's someone famous. Even then, they're not likely to double-check more than one or two facts, if that.

And it's worse for technical reporting, at best, the journalist minored in economics so they can be conversant with the experts, but they're not remotely at the level to understand it well enough to translate it accurately for the masses.

So I don't blame journalists for inaccuracies like this, I just do my own QA.

What I do blame them for is obvious bias....