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Journalist aren't even critical of police press releases anymore, most simply print whatever they're told verbatim. It may as well just be advertisement.
I agree with you so strongly that I went ahead and updated my comment. The problem is general and out of control. Orwell said it best: "Journalism is printing something that someone does not want printed. Everything else is public relations."
The meat of the true issue right here. Journalism and investigative journalism aren't just dead, their corpses has been feeding a palm tree like a pod of beached whales for decades. It's a bizarre state of affairs to read news coverage and come out the other side less informed, without reading literal disinformation. It somehow seems so much worse that they're not just off-target, but that they don't even understand why or how they're fucking it up.