[sputr]

> It seems like many journalists are failing in their primary responsibilities to keep the public informed.

I would argue that that is not their primary responsibility. That is, in fact, to put food on the table.

Journalists are not well paid and, more importantly, are easily replaceable. "Real journalism" is hard, but makes no money, while pop-journalism is very easy and profitable. So media companies demand and pay for pop-journalism. And that can be done by far too many people.

So blaming them for doing what they need to do to get paid when doing "real journalism" will get them fired is... pointless.