Lets get the terminolgy right "luvvies" are actors who are too thick to think for themselves and read other peoples scripts.
Journalists write the words for documentaries and the actors, they know nothing about the subject and can make the opening of a can of beans an international crisis and disaster.
Researchers feed the journalists a brief story line gleaned from someone who was almost there when the beans were opened but heard about it from someone who heard about it from a checkout girl in the supermarket