[zefei]

It's just that science is easy to verify for the people that know how. If you are actual expect of any other topics (thus can verify if their news is any good), you'll find the news for those topics is at best as bad as for science, if not much worse. News cannot be 100% faithful to the material it covers, and the more you understand about the topics, the more discrepancy you can see.

[GeorgeTirebiter]

I'm not sure I understand your comment that science is 'easy to verify' - how would any of us verify that the LHC actually found the Higgs boson a few years ago? (10 year anniversary coming up on July 4th)

[Izkata]

You're missing the "for the people that know how".

I agree with GP: Most news is bad, but people can really only tell when it bumps up against something they know. News on science just has a bonus where research gets published separate from the news, and so even people outside the field can compare the two and point out exactly where the news is wrong.