After social constructivism permeated the humanities deeply enough to turn most journalists into postmodernists, they turned their focus from understanding social reality to constructing it. Journalism is no longer: X happened, but: here is how you should relate to X
Unsurprisingly, journalism is largely what journalists get paid for. It is not the fault of the journalist that emerges under conditions where one gets paid for manipulating observers rather than adopting their purposes and informing them.