Journalism doesn&#x27;t work like people seem to think it does, and hasn&#x27;t for a long, long time - if it ever did. Journalists don&#x27;t research. Most media outlets just get press releases in, or articles from AP, Reuters and other aggregators, and they paraphrase.<p>This is why you see the same errors across the grid. It&#x27;s not that they&#x27;ve all done the same poor research - it&#x27;s that they have done <i>no</i> research, and have simply rehashed for their audience. <i>They</i> outsource <i>their</i> thinking too.<p>Then of course you have outlets eating each others&#x27; messes, and regurgitating &quot;facts&quot; that copy-editors (&quot;journalists&quot;) put in to garner appeal to their audience, and the feedback cycle distorts as it goes.<p>This is how you end up with shit like the &quot;piano man&quot; (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Andreas_Grassl" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Andreas_Grassl</a>), and much, much worse.