Evening Star--
Yes, there are some blithering idiots in print. No, not everyone's like that -- some of the cleverest, wisest and best-educated people I know are journalists. And there's a difference between papers -- I don't rate the Times at all on science (and as for the Sun. Times... sheesh! One of the many reasions I cannot read that paper), but the Indy's rather good.
There is a great deal of the old CP Snow 'two cultures' out there, in the press as elsewhere. One of my heros, who worked on radar in the second world war and was senior in the UK space industry, would respond to sniffy arts graduates by offering to recite Hamlet to them if they'd reciprocate with the laws of thermodynamics. Usually did the trick.
Incidentally, there's rather a good piece on cliches in journalism at
http://argument.independent.co.uk/co...sp?story=87307
R