In the interests of understanding and mutual niceness, I'm tempted to mount a small defence of journalism as it's currently practised. Hard hat on, here goes...
While a small handful of journos may be ignorant scumbags, most are hard-working, honest folk trying to earn a crust in the face of free content on the Internet, freelance rates that haven't changed in 20 years, and publishers who cut pay and staffing levels, yet expect employees to produce ever more content for a bewilderingly huge variety of platforms.
The result is less and less time available to research and write stories with increasing reliance of Wikipedia and press releases. Nick Davies' book Flat Earth News catalogues this phenomenon in forensic detail.
Some of this may be familiar to joystick jockeys - see the recent thread about lowering status and pay...