Here you see what "journalism" is: In the morning you start off with an empty sheet of paper and you have to somehow fill it. Then you think of what currently concerns people and begin writing a story in this area keeping in mind that it has to catch the eye and sell in the end. And if you sit in a publishing house in New York then it's unlikely that your story reflects the reality.
I even re-invented "journalism" together with my brother when we were at school. We hat a Commodore C64 and a "publishing software" where you could create a "newspaper" with text and black/white "pictures". So we had to search something to write. Forest dieback was a fashionable topic at this time so we wrote something like "more and more tries die" and something has to be done about it, even when we have never analyzed the health of trees in a real forest. But we printed it on a needle printer and distributed some copies to classmates. Of course it was fun to do it, but we were a bit late. Forest dieback was already debunked as fake news which we didn't know yet, so the next best approach would have been to copy something from the newspaper of our parents (that of course copies from elsewhere, my parents still read the same newspaper and it brought the story about Giuliani's hair dye, here in Germany) ;)
Here you see what "journalism" is: In the morning you start off with an empty sheet of paper and you have to somehow fill it. Then you think of what currently concerns people and begin writing a story in this area keeping in mind that it has to catch the eye and sell in the end. And if you sit in a publishing house in New York then it's unlikely that your story reflects the reality. I even re-invented "journalism" together with my brother when we were at school. We hat a Commodore C64 and a "publishing software" where you could create a "newspaper" with text and black/white "pictures". So we had to search something to write. Forest dieback was a fashionable topic at this time so we wrote something like "more and more tries die" and something has to be done about it, even when we have never analyzed the health of trees in a real forest. But we printed it on a needle printer and distributed some copies to classmates. Of course it was fun to do it, but we were a bit late. Forest dieback was already debunked as fake news which we didn't know yet, so the next best approach would have been to copy something from the newspaper of our parents (that of course copies from elsewhere, my parents still read the same newspaper and it brought the story about Giuliani's hair dye, here in Germany) ;)