>Journalism is a crucial part for a free world.

Good, free journalism that tries to tell the truth. Otherwise, even North Korea needs journalism.

I agree, but I get very worry every time I see a news about a scientific even where they just copy the press release of the university that has a lot of unsupported hype (and sometimes errors). (And sometimes, the journalist add more errors or cut critical parts.)

Eh. I think the idea of journalism as a career or distinct field is less important with the advent of social media. People are either reliable or they aren't, and "journalist" was never a strong signal. And investigative journalism seems pretty dead in traditionally-reputable outlets; the good investigative journalism seems to be done by independent people and sold to publishers.

Even the people I like/trust at newspapers I prefer to consume via social media without passing through the editor.

True, I was thinking too narrowly.

Sounds reasonable to me.

I would stand behind:

Everything is trash and everyone is happy to lie about anything if they have the smallest amount of plausible deniability.

Did you get to the part where some made up facts about the fake model, like TDP?

You missed the "if they have the smallest amount of plausible deniability" part of the original comment.

Isn't this related? It's exactly decimation of their budgets that lead to the bad quality.