Seems like the few good journos get tarred with the same brush that tars all pilots as overpaid prima donnas who get paid astronomical sums for a few hours sitting up front and then enjoying a couple of days off in mass orgies with the female cabin crew in a five star luxury resort hotel.
Blame the luvvies such as the news controllers and editors who would eat their own children in order to outdo each other to be the first with 'news' and to hell with the truth as long as they have a 'good'
story.
Here on PPRuNe, most posters use the media's resources to get the breaking news but then we enter a speculation phase and invariably there will always be a few posters who make comments or observations in the internet equivalent of 'liking the sound of their own voice' but most educated readers are able to spot the pretenders and those with more in-depth knowledge and experience. At the end of the day you still have to sort the wheat from the chaff and it is those nuggets of excellent observation or information that make the trawl through some threads worthwhile to the majority of readers.