The trouble is that the meeja is unable to distinguish between the RAF (in this case) as an entity, and the people that are there. Lazy reporting means that it comes across that the RAF as we understand it (the people) are not a worthwhile addition to the forces in Stan. What they actually mean, but don't get across very well, is that with the current resources and constraints placed upon them, the RAF as an entity is not able to perform to it's full potential.
It's like us saying "SkyTV is ****e" - when what we mean is that in certain areas such as lazy-arsed journo stuff, they are placing themselves somewhere below the Stun. However, if we actually looked at the people doing their individual jobs and the constraints and party-lines that they are having to toe, individually they are doing OK.
We know that the meeja fail to get it right on many occasions, we know that your average techie working for the meeja is on top of his job, and we know that the face in front the camera would shag his own granny and film it if he thought it would get him an anchor position on the 10 o'clock, and his lords and masters would order him to do it to gain an extra 0.000005% of the viewing figures.
We also know that individuals in the Forces do the job they are proud to do, within the constraints imposed upon them by the Whitehall and Cabinet Office warriors, but it gets a bit annoying when the lazy reporting makes it seem like we don't.