I like how there are periodic outcries about publicists feeding content to reporters or articles being somehow "inaccurately reported" and yet you can regularly see product-pushing sponcon and outright fiction in various newspapers of record
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"Journalism" has always been a seedy, low rent profession -- somewhere between scamming and outright begging for money -- and to believe that "Pentagon papers" and "Watergate" changed that is like believing Jules Dassin or the Coens made noir something other than puerile trash
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If you see a lot of "journos" writing the same take over and over, rest assured that whatever they're talking about long since ceased to be anything but a jumble of word salad that they know, unconsciously or no, equals payment
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